Rent Sister Street Fighter: Collection (1976)
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5h 25min
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- Synopsis:
After the massive success of 'The Street Fighter', Toei Company decided to build a new karate series around a female lead and cast a young actress who had appeared in a cameo role alongside her mentor Sonny Chiba. Still a teenager at the time, Etsuko Shihomi exploded onscreen in her first leading role and created a new character type: a tough fighter who was fierce, fearless, good-hearted, and decidedly non-sexualised, a departure from Toei's typical formula. In 1974's 'Sister Street Fighter', Shihomi is the half-Chinese, half-Japanese Koryu Lee, who travels to Yokohama to investigate the disappearance of her brother, an undercover cop. Lee discovers a smuggling ring run by a drug lord with his own personal army of deadly fighters, and must penetrate his evil lair with the help of a fellow karate master (played by Chiba). Shihomi and director Kazuhiko Yamaguchi (Wolf Guy) made two additional films based on the same character over the next year, 'Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread' and 'Return of the Sister Street Fighter', with a final unrelated follow-up (Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist) helmed by original 'Street Fighter' director Shigehiro Ozawa appearing in 1976. Genre entertainment of the highest order, the 'Sister Street Fighter' films are a wild ride through some of the best exploitation cinema Japan produced in the 1970's. Funky and over-the-top, filled with wall-to-wall action, and featuring some of the craziest villains ever depicted onscreen, the series embodies female power in a male-dominated genre and is a magnificent showcase for the physical presence and martial arts skills of its lead star. - Actors:
- Etsuko Shiomi, Shin'ichi Chiba, Asao Uchida, Sanae Ôhori, Bin Amatsu, Hiroshi Kondô, Emi Hayakawa, Kôji Hio, Masashi Ishibashi, Tatsuya Kameyama, Ryoichi Koike, Hideo Kosuge, Akira Kuji, Toshio Minami, Kengo Miyaji, Hiroshi Miyauchi, Hisao Mizoguchi, Tatsuya Nanjô, Kenji Ohba, Kazuyuki Saito
- Directors:
- Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Shigehiro Ozawa
- Producers:
- Kenji Takamura, Kineo Yoshimine
- Writers:
- Masahiro Kakefuda, Norifumi Suzuki, Takeo Kaneko, Isao Matsumoto, Motohiro Torii
- Aka:
- Onna hissatsu ken / Onna hissatsu ken: Kiki ippatsu / Kaette kita onna hissatsu ken / Onna hissatsu godan ken
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics
- Countries:
- Japan
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 04/03/2019
- Run Time:
- 325 minutes
- Languages:
- Dubbed, English Dolby Digital 1.0, Japanese Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- English, English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- New video interviews with actor Shinichi "Sonny" Chiba, director Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, and screenwriter Masahiro Kakefuda
- Isolated score highlights for the first three films
- Original Japanese theatrical trailers for all four films
- Original U.S. theatrical trailer for 'Sister Street Fighter'
- Original German theatrical trailer for 'Sister Street Fighte'r, plus original German opening titles to the film
- Stills and poster gallery
- Disc 1:
- This disc includes the following:
- Sister Street Fighter
- Special Features - Disc 2:
- This disc includes the following:
- Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread
- Return of the Sister Street Fighter
- Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist
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