Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread

Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread 女必殺拳 危機一髪
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Directed by	Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Written by	Masahiro Kakefuda Norifumi Suzuki
Starring	Etsuko Shihomi Yasuaki Kurata
Cinematography	Yoshio Nakajima
Music by	Shunsuke Kikuchi
Distributed by	Toei Company
Release date	7 December 1974 (1974-12-07)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread (女必殺拳 危機一髪, Onna Hissatsu Ken Kiki ippatsu) is a Japanese martial arts directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi and starring Etsuko Shihomi. The film is a sequel to Sister Street Fighter. It was followed by a third and final film titled The Return of the Sister Street Fighter (1975).

Cast

• Etsuko Shihomi - Lǐ Hónglóng (Li Kōryū)
• Yasuaki Kurata - Shunsuke Tsubaki
• Tamayo Mitsukawa - Li Bailan (Li Hakuran)
• Michiyo Bandō - Kotoe Fujita
• Hisayo Tanaka - Wang Meili (Ō Birei)
• Hideo Murota - Kazushige Osone
• Kōji Fujiyama - Goro Kuroki
• Kōji Hio - Kiyoshi Nezu
• Masashi Ishibashi - Inoichiro Honiden
• Kazuyuki Saito - Shikajiro Honiden
• Daikyo Rin - Chozaburo Honiden
• Riki Harada - Cui Chiniu
• Kanya Tsukasa - Byakko
• Osamu Kaneda - Konosuke Mayuzumi
• Rikiya Yasuoka - Genjuro Ranai

Reception

Jim McLennan from the website "Girls with Guns" gave the film two and a half stars out of four, criticizing its lack of originality: "...if you watch this back to back with the original, it's almost going to seem like a mockbuster rather than a sequel, albeit made by much the same people. One semi-significant difference is that replacing Sonny Chiba, you have Kurata, playing a martial-arts master who joins the Osone gang with his own agenda. The opponents for our heroine are still the same selection of fighters with different talents, each introduced with a caption describing their origin. But these seem significantly more restrained than first time round, outside of the transsexual killer with her lethal fingernails". Don Anelli, writing for the "Asian Movie Pulse", opined: "While on the surface providing pretty much exactly what's needed in terms of fine martial arts battles and a simplistic story to set that up, Sister Street Fighter 2 comes off as a lower version of the original in most regards. As it's still worthwhile and watchable, give this a chance if you're a fan of the first one or a general film of these kinds of films from that era, while viewers who aren't into martial arts efforts or weren't fans of the original should heed caution".

External links

• Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread at IMDb