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).
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| Directed by | Kazuhiko Yamaguchi |
| Written by | Masahiro Kakefuda Norifumi Suzuki |
| Starring | Etsuko Shihomi Yasuaki Kurata |
| Music by | Shunsuke Kikuchi |
| Cinematography | Yoshio Nakajima |
| Distributed by | Toei Company |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
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
- "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.
- McLennan, Jim. "The Sister Street Fighter series". Girls with Guns. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
- Anelli, Don. "Film Review: Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread (1974) by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi". Asian Movie Pulse. Retrieved 13 March 2019.