Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread (女必殺拳 危機一髪, On'na Hissatsu-ken: Kiki Ippatsu) is a Japanese martial arts directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi and starring Etsuko Shihomi. The film is a sequel to Sister Street Fighter. It was followed by a third and final film titled The Return of the Sister Street Fighter (1975).
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Cast
Etsuko Shihomi - Lǐ Hónglóng (Li Kōryū)
Yasuaki Kurata - Shunsuke Tsubaki
Tamayo Mitsukawa - Li Bailan (Li Hakuran)
Michiyo Bandō - Kotoe Fujita
Hisayo Tanaka - Wang Meili (Ō Birei)
Hideo Murota - Kazushige Osone
Kōji Fujiyama - Goro Kuroki
Kōji Hio - Kiyoshi Nezu
Masashi Ishibashi - Inoichiro Honiden
Kazuyuki Saito - Shikajiro Honiden
Daikyo Rin - Chozaburo Honiden
Riki Harada - Cui Chiniu
Kanya Tsukasa - Byakko
Osamu Kaneda - Konosuke Mayuzumi
Rikiya Yasuoka - Genjuro Ranai
Reception
Jim McLennan from the website girlswithguns.org gave the film two and a half stars out of four, criticizing its lack of originality, writing, "...if you watch this back to back with the original, it's almost going to seem like a mockbuster rather than a sequel, albeit made by much the same people. One semi-significant difference is that replacing Sonny Chiba, you have Kurata, playing a martial-arts master who joins the Osone gang with his own agenda. The opponents for our heroine are still the same selection of fighters with different talents, each introduced with a caption describing their origin. But these seem significantly more restrained than first time round, outside of the transsexual killer with her lethal fingernails".
Don Anelli of asianmoviepulse.com opined, "While on the surface providing pretty much exactly what's needed in terms of fine martial arts battles and a simplistic story to set that up, Sister Street Fighter 2 comes off as a lower version of the original in most regards. As it's still worthwhile and watchable, give this a chance if you're a fan of the first one or a general film of these kinds of films from that era, while viewers who aren't into martial arts efforts or weren't fans of the original should heed caution".