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 sequel entitled The Return of the Sister Street Fighter (1975).

Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread
女必殺拳 危機一髪
Directed byKazuhiko Yamaguchi
Written byMasahiro Kakefuda
Norifumi Suzuki
StarringEtsuko Shihomi
Yasuaki Kurata
Music byShunsuke Kikuchi
CinematographyYoshio Nakajima
Distributed byToei Company
Release date
  • December 7, 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" stated: "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. "The Sister Street Fighter series". Girls with Guns. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  3. Anelli, Don. "Film Review: Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread (1974) by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi". Asian Movie Pulse. Retrieved 13 March 2019.


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