Arrow filmsafter the massive success of the street fighter, the 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 li koryu, who travels to yokohama to investigate the disappearance of her brother, an undercover cop. Li 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 1970s. Funky and over-the-top, filled with wall-to-wall action, and featuring some of the craziest villains ever depicted onscreen, the seri...
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