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Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread (1974)
Directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
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Overview
Koryu heads to Yokohama in search of a woman named Birei, kidnapped by diamond smugglers who move their hot rocks by surgically implanting them into the nubile buttocks of Chinese prostitutes. Koryu’s older sister, working as a jewelry designer, is secretly, if unhappily, involved with the gangsters.
Length 85 minutes
Actors
Etsuko Shihomi | Tamayo Mitsukawa | Hideo Murota | Masashi Ishibashi | Asao Uchida | Kôji Hio | Kôji Fujiyama | Shôhei Yamamoto | Madame Joy | Hideaki Nagai | Kazuyuki Saito | Daikyo Rin | Rikiya Yasuoka | Riki Harada | Hisayo Tanaka | Toshiyuki Tsuchiyama | Michiyo Bandô | Toshihiko Sawada | Keiji Kinoshita | Hachiro Tako | Toshiyuki Shibayama | Gôzô Sôma | Kanya Tsukasa | Osamu Kaneda | Shunsuke Kariya | Yasuaki Kurata
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07/21/2019 | TV | Streaming | Video on Demand | 6 stars |
| (Average) 6 stars |
Viewing Notes
Not quite as fun as the original film but still has its moments and has Kurata, who I also love seeing pop up in old films. This installment is way more sleazy with the premise of the diamond smugglers embedding diamonds into the butt cheeks of Hong Kong women they’ve forced into prostitution.
Also worth noting that this cut of the film is apparently the same as the recent Arrow release, which btw I didn’t realize contained all four SSF films. By this I mean that the poster of the nude underage girl on the wall is very present and very disturbing given how long it appears on screen. Had heard that this was removed in various cuts that have been distributed thru the years but Arrow has it fully intact. Stephanie brought this up on Twitter a few weeks ago. I wasn’t sure which SSF movie it was but can now confirm that this is the film.
I’m not for censorship but perhaps a warning before the film would be a good course of action. Really bizarre that it was included at all when they made the movie (I suppose to emphasis how despicable these thugs really are when they already do enough terrible things that further examples aren’t really necessary). I get that this exploitation but wow that’s a very odd decision.
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