Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Taisho, and Showa periods. Email the Arrow Video Podcast hosts for any comments, suggestions or questions at [email protected]. It’s less a coherent film than it is a series of action set-pieces, and while the villains are a little less colourful and eccentric this time around — butt-implanted diamonds aside! A nice touch. März 2019 in Großbritannien und den USA erhältlichen Blu-ray-Box von Arrow Video ist die komplette Trilogie in HD enthalten und den 1976 entstandenden Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist hat man auch noch beigelegt. After 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.

045 - Sister Street Fighter by Arrow Video Podcast published on 2019-03-17T11:15:41Z. Lee Long is a martial-arts champion who the police use as an undercover agent to infiltrate a drug ring responsible for importing heroin from Japan to Hong Kong. Funky and over-the-top, filled with wall-to-wall action, and featuring some of the craziest villains ever depicted onscreen, the series embodies female power in a male-dominated genre and is a magnificent showcase for the physical presence and martial arts skills of its lead star. When he is identified and imprisoned, the police pressure his sister, Tina Long, to help them locate and free him. 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. 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). This is due to a potentially indecent image of a minor used as set decoration in the lair of one of the villains – visible in one shot for approximately 31 seconds which the BBFC advised breached the Protection of Children Act 1978. She gets the help of Lee's martial-arts school, including the powerful Sonny Kawasaka, for the inevitable battle-royale with the drug gang, which includes masters of many different 'schools' of fighting. The Arrow Video Podcast With Sam And Dan is a bi-weekly film discussion show. Survivor. This website uses cookies.

Author of the bi-weekly Hit List. He's a one man army. Arrow Video Podcast. When he is identified and imprisoned, the police pressure his sister, Tina Long, to help them locate and free him. However, be warned, he is barely in the movie at all--appearing briefly three times and amounting to perhaps five minutes on film. Sister Street Fighter Collection Arrow Films/MVD Blu-ray Review By: Jaime Pina . If the franchise ended here, like it was intended, it would have been a wonderful note with which to cap things off. This is a goofy, nonstop rollercoaster ride of martial arts movie tropes blurring together into a bizarre, thoroughly offbeat whole.

This is a movie in which characters fight in racetracks, on top of moving trains, and even on logs floating on a river. SISTER STREET FIGHTER is much more direct and down to earth--with a very conventional plot and setting. $34.95 USD Plus, what you do see of this great martial artist is far from his best work.So instead, watch this movie just for its merits without Chiba--which it does have in spades. A movie all about movement and action needs to look good, and Arrow Video is up to the task. This series is definitely one of the most exciting and violent, cult acclaimed franchises disc collectors and aficionados can enjoy. The Sister Street Fighter films are a karate-delivery mechanism par excellence.

— the action is no less frenetic and thrilling. Interrupting the fights with lacklustre comedy makes its 77-minutes feel a whole lot longer, drains it of the fun and joy that go hand-in-hand with the collection.

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It’s never funny enough during the comedy moments or exciting enough in the action sequences. 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. 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). Listen to 045 - Sister Street Fighter, an episode of Arrow Video Podcast, easily on Podbay.

As this scene features important expository dialogue, instead of cutting it out completely we have decided to zoom into the other half of the frame, cropping out the offending part of the image entirely. Is your network connection unstable or browser outdated? In this sequel, he sets out to bust up a phony charity put together by the Yakuza. Of course, it didn’t quite end there! Well Go USA Reveals TRAIN TO BUSAN PRESENTS: PENINSULA 4K Ultra Key Art Ahead Of Digital And Disc Releases, Your Next Viewing: THE DEEPER YOU DIG [ARROW Review] | Film Combat Syndicate, ARROW: Adams Family’s THE DEEPER YOU DIG Heads October Selects For New Streamer Launch, WEALTH OF ART: A Word With Actor, Filmmaker And Stunt Professional Michael Hoad | Film Combat Syndicate, Independent UK Martial Arts Drama THE MAN FROM THE MOUNTAIN In The Works At Lost Boys Films [EXCLUSIVE], MONSTER HUNTER Milla Jovovich And Tony Jaa Team Up In The Official Trailer | Film Combat Syndicate, JIU JITSU Will Save The World In The Official Trailer For The Martial Arts Sci-Fi With Alain Moussi, Tony Jaa And Nicolas Cage, Well Go USA Reveals TRAIN TO BUSAN PRESENTS: PENINSULA 4K Ultra Key Art Ahead Of Digital And Disc Releases | Film Combat Syndicate, PENINSULA Review: Starring Gang Dong-Won, Yeon Sang-Ho’s Zombie Franchise Reassures With A Pulsating Sequel, CONTRACTS Trailer: Indiecan Gives Alex Chung's Martial Arts Indie Thriller A Red-Band Welcome Ahead Of November Release | Film Combat Syndicate, CONTRACTS Review: Alex Chung Signals With A Bloody, Bone-Crushing, Action-Packed Freshman Indie Feature Debut. A tough-as-nails cop from Okinawa investigates a savage murder in Tokyo's nightlife district. It’s always interesting to see how distro companies aim to maintain the posterity of classic movies.

The smugglers have a plot to move their diamonds in the most covert method possible: surgically implanting them in the butt-cheeks of Chinese prostitutes. Lee Long is a martial-arts champion who the police use as an undercover agent to infiltrate a drug ring responsible for importing heroin from Japan to Hong Kong. The worst aspect of the dubbing was the stupid voice they gave Sonny Chiba in a few BRIEF scenes. 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). © Arrow Films. Toei’s Sister Street Fighter Collection is no exception – I actually bought mine from HKFlix when BCI/Eclipse had theirs released in 2006, and it’s not a bad package either. Limited Edition GAMERA: THE … It just sounded very wimpy. Even as the wackiness is dialled back, the sense of fun is very much intact. It does what the first movie did but with little less punch. Join Sam and Dan as this week they take a look at Etsuko Shiomi's stand-out performance in the Japanese 70s exploitation classic SISTER STREET FIGHTER, alongside the legendary Sonny Chiba. Your current browser isn't compatible with SoundCloud.

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To add, for me, Hanging By A Thread is also quite wobbly in terms of cinematography, I’d have to say, but the rest of the franchise has always purely fascinated me. After 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. After 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. Original uncompressed Japanese mono audio.

Apart from this, all four films in the set will be released for the first time in the UK in all their bloody, bone-snapping uncut glory, including the gore and weapons scenes cut from previous UK releases of the first film! Written by