Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread

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 starred by Etsuko Shihomi. The film is a sequel to Sister Street Fighter.[1] It was followed by a third and final film titled The Return of the Sister Street Fighter (1975).

Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread
女必殺拳 危機一髪
Film poster
Directed byKazuhiko Yamaguchi
Written byMasahiro Kakefuda
Norifumi Suzuki
StarringEtsuko Shihomi
Yasuaki Kurata
CinematographyYoshio Nakajima
Music byShunsuke Kikuchi
Distributed byToei Company
Release date
  • 7 December 1974 (1974-12-07)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

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".[2] 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".[3]

References
  1. "Sister Street Fighter / Sister Street Fighter - Hanging by a Thread / Return of the Sister Street Fighter / Fifth Level Fist". DVD Talk. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
  2. McLennan, Jim (November 2016). "The Sister Street Fighter series". Girls with Guns. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  3. Anelli, Don (11 March 2019). "Film Review: Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread (1974) by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi". Asian Movie Pulse. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
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