Sunday, December 16, 2012

Sister Streetfighter (1974)

watched this again the other day, and it's a good movie, though I don't love it like I want to.  I'm not sure why.  the martial arts are great and there are a lot of fights in an 86 minute movie, so that's good.  the battles strike me as very Hong Kong inspired, but it they are much more violent, perhaps more "realistically" violent than say the Shaw Brothers movies of the same time period were.


it's well acted, and the music is great.  the choreography and cinematography is really well done.  I'm not surprised it was rated X when released in the US though.  the movie also looks to be very inspired by "Enter The Dragon" as well.

Corinne Orr told me that this was her favorite movie to dub, since it was all grunts and groans.

Directed by
Kazuhiko Yamaguchi 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Masahiro Kakefuda 
Noribumi Suzuki 

Cast (in credits order)
Etsuko Shihomi ... Li Koryu
Emi Hayakawa ... Emi Hayakawa
Sanae Ôhori ... Shinobu Kojo
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bin Amatsu ... Shigetomi Kakuzaki
Sonny Chiba ... Seiichi Hibiki
Kôji Hio ... Gomaru Akasawa
Masashi Ishibashi ... Kazunao Inubashiri
Tatsuya Kameyama ... Shimura
Ryoichi Koike ... Tesshin Uesu
Hiroshi Kondô ... Li Gyokudo
Hideo Kosuge ... Tomoyuki Obayashi
Akira Kuji ... Neret
Toshio Minami ... Ma Ba-Yuan
Kengo Miyaji ... Kizaki
Hiroshi Miyauchi ... Li Mansei
Hisao Mizoguchi ... Tettoso
Tatsuya Nanjo ... Jiro
Kenji Ohba

Kazuyuki Saito ... Sakura
Kazuji Sato ... Go Naito
Seiya Satô ... Murakami
Kôji Sawada ... Nakajima
Teruo Shimizu ... Hamano
Gôzô Sôma ... Mao Yang-De
Nami Tachibana ... Reiko
Tadashi Takatsuki ... Yoshikawa
Toshiyuki Tsuchiyama ... Kurokawa
Asao Uchida ... Tetsudo Fujita
Xiu-Rong Xie ... Fanshin
Shôhei Yamamoto ... Ryozo Hayashi
Sakae Yamaura ... Masaaki Sakurai
Adolph Caesar ... Narrator of Theatrical Trailer (voice) (uncredited)

Produced by
Kenji Takamura .... producer
Kineo Yoshimine .... producer
 
Original Music by
Shunsuke Kikuchi 
 
Cinematography by
Yoshio Nakajima 
 
Film Editing by
Osamu Tanaka 
 
Production Design by
Shuichiro Nakamura 
 
Other crew
Peter Fernandez .... voice director: English version

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