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Onna hissatsu godan ken (Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist, 1976)
"This route is excellent. However, I don't know how they heard, but apparently American agents are coming to Japan."
"Agents?"
"That's why I've come to Japan."
"As soon as we know their faces, we'll get rid of them."
#onna hissatsu godan ken#Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist#street fightin' cinema#japanese cinema#1976#shigehiro ozawa#isao matsumoto#motohiro torii#etsuko shihomi#mitchi love#ken wallace#tsunehiko watase#masafumi suzuki#yoshiki yamada#iwao tabuchi#masako araki#takanori oya#yoshihiro igarashi#masataka iwao#tony cetera#claude gagnon#hal gold#hajime ueshiba#very clearly an unrelated property that got slapped with the Sister Street Fighter branding. Shihomi is playing a different character but#the style and the spirit belong to the same world as the previous films‚ and with Ozawa (director of the og Street Fighter films) helming#there's a degree of returning familiarity. one aspect that works less is that there's a running theme here in setting Shihomi up for#marriage‚ as well as suggestions that she should be willing to settle down and be subservient to a husband‚ something the previous films#never even touched on (rightly so‚ as Shihomi's badassery was taken for granted as was her equal or superior talent to various male#opponents or colleagues). it's a disappointing aspect of an otherwise glossy looking and cooly stylish finále in a great series
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