Seeing that the time-off in between films was working nicely for the franchise, this fourth and final entry in the ‘Sister Street Fighter’ series now arrives with a full year break in between the releases, in a sequel in name-only since it was graced with a new creative team in director Shigehiro Ozawa and writers Isao Matsumoto and Motohiro Torii.
Trying to please her mother, young Kiku Nakagawa continually leaves their successful kimono shop business in order to take martial arts at a local dojo. Her friend at the dojo, Michi becomes concerned about her stepbrother Jim (Ken Wallace) going missing one day, eventually learning that he’s been in the employ of movie studio owner Fujiyama, who’s been using the studio as a base for a series of smuggling operations and the film shoots as a front for the activities. Taking the situation up with police detective Takagi,...
Trying to please her mother, young Kiku Nakagawa continually leaves their successful kimono shop business in order to take martial arts at a local dojo. Her friend at the dojo, Michi becomes concerned about her stepbrother Jim (Ken Wallace) going missing one day, eventually learning that he’s been in the employ of movie studio owner Fujiyama, who’s been using the studio as a base for a series of smuggling operations and the film shoots as a front for the activities. Taking the situation up with police detective Takagi,...
- 3/14/2019
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
Graced with more time than before to craft this entry, director Kazuhiko Yamaguchi brings this third tale of detective Li Koryu kicking apart drug smugglers and other assorted thugs in the streets of Japan. The last film of the series directed by Yamaguchi and written by Masahiro Kakefuda with a new partner in Takeo Kaneko, this strong entry in the series is now part of the 2-disc collection released March 5 from Arrow Films.
After a friend of hers is murdered, detective Li Koryu is tasked with traveling to Japan to find his missing cousin that has disappeared into the Japanese underworld. Taking the girls’ daughter Rika (Miwa Cho) along with her, Koryu lands in Yokohama, where her friend Michi helps introduce her to Shurei, the sister of the girl. Together, they’re able to piece together her disappearance back to a shadowy figure in the underground, Oh...
After a friend of hers is murdered, detective Li Koryu is tasked with traveling to Japan to find his missing cousin that has disappeared into the Japanese underworld. Taking the girls’ daughter Rika (Miwa Cho) along with her, Koryu lands in Yokohama, where her friend Michi helps introduce her to Shurei, the sister of the girl. Together, they’re able to piece together her disappearance back to a shadowy figure in the underground, Oh...
- 3/12/2019
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
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