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The Sister Street Fighter Collection
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List Price: $19.98
Our Price: $17.99
Your Save: $ 1.99 ( 10% )
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Manufacturer: Bci / Eclipse
Starring: Sonny Chiba, Yôko Ichiji, Masashi Ishibashi, Claude Gagnon, Hiroshi Tanaka
Directed By: Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Shigehiro Ozawa
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: X (Mature Audiences Only)
Binding: DVD
Brand: BCI ECLIPSE LLC
EAN: 0787364718290
Format: Box set
Label: Bci / Eclipse
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Manufacturer: Bci / Eclipse
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Bci / Eclipse
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2006-09-05
Running Time: 351
Studio: Bci / Eclipse
Theatrical Release Date: 1975-12-03
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Editorial Reviews:
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THE SISTER STREET FIGHTER COLLECTION presents all four films in the Japanese martial arts series starring Etsuko Shihomi as a female karate expert. In SISTER STREET FIGHTER (1974) Shihomi travels to Hong Kong to search for her missing brother who was working undercover for the police. In SISTER STREET FIGHTER: HANGING BY A THREAD (1974) Shihomi traces an heiress's disappearance to a diamond smuggling ring. In RETURN OF THE SISTER STREET FIGHTER (1975) she sets out to rescue a childhood friend kidnapped by gangsters. And in SISTER STREET FIGHTER: FIFTH LEVEL FIST (1976) she infiltrates a notorious drug ring.System Requirements:TRT 333 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:Â MISCELLANEOUS/OTHER Rating:Â NR UPC:Â 787364718290
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Summary: Sister Street Fighter Series Finally Done With Respect.
Comment: I was presently surprised by the job BCI did with there Sister Street Fighter Collection. All 4 of Etsuko Shihomi Sister Street Fighter films are remastered, wide screen, uncensored, and in Japanese with English subtitles. BCI has also included a full color booklet with history on Sister Street Fighter. The 1st 3 Sister Street Fighter films are like a comic book come to life. Etsuko Shihomi's character Koryu Lee fights the most craziest & colorful vilians ever in martial arts film. The 4th film in this collection Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist is not really a Sister Street Fighter film. Etsuko Shihomi plays a new character Kiku in Fifth Level Fist. Fifth Level Fist does away with the comic book like villians, over the top violence and nudity that are featured in the first three films. Fifth Level Fist with its more reality based story is still a good film in its on way. It is a also good contrast to the other three films.
I'm hopeing BCI releases another boxset set of Etsuko Shihomi films in the future. A boxset containing Dragon Princess,13 Steps of Maki,The Great Chase, and The Second is a Christian would be nice.
Now, I only wished somebody would treat the Sonny Chiba Street Fighter films with as much respect in region 1. Until that happens those with multiregion DVD players can import Optimum's British Sonny Chiba Street Fighter collection.
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Summary: Sister Street Fighter: Return
Comment: I've only seen 'Sister Street Fighter:Return' but wow! What a movie! The action sequences were well done and were simple yet pleasing to the eye. The story line was pretty deep, and moved along nicely. This is one of the best films I've seen in a while and I plan to buy the entire box collection!
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Summary: A great box set!
Comment: This is how they should've done the 10 Faces of Sonny Chiba box, a few years ago. The movies have their original Japanese audio, the transfer is very good, the box is very nice, and there's also an included booklet about Sue Shiomi and the director. Jam-packed with martial hijinks and zany comic book baddies, this set comes highly recommended for the choppy-socky audience.
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Summary: WOW!!!!!
Comment: This is what DVD was made for!
Forget those bootlegs and earlier editions of SS people!
Right here is the absolute best quality and presentation ever.
All 4 films(one is not an official SS film but close enough),remastered to perfection.
SS itself has an english track and the rest are in the original language with subtitles.
BCI is definitely the lead dog in the martial arts field at this point with the Chiba,Shiomi,Rarescope and even Tony Jaa's Spirited Killer film coming out like an assault!
And the price is amazing for this package here.
It comes out to about 10 bucks a film and its worth it.
You can get it cheaper from the Amazon sellers section which would come out to about 30 bucks with shipping.So 7.50 a flick.
There's original posters and trailers plus a great booklet with articles and interviews about Shiomi.
Watching these with this level of quality is like seeing them for the first time.
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Summary: 4 Stars For Film; -3 For VHS
Comment: It's too bad New Line didn't release this as an unrated cut, just like they did with the first film, 'The Street Fighter'. This VHS version is not only full-frame, but HEAVILY edited. No blood, not even a crunching bone sound. But you still get to see some breasts. Strange that they didn't edit them out either. If you get the recent DVD versions of the film by companies like Front Row Entertainment and Brentwood, you'll get to see the uncut version in it's widescreen glory. Sadly, the image quality is poor, since it was taken from the laserdisc version of the film.
As for the film itself, there are better Sonny Chiba films with great storylines and good acting, such as Killing Machine and Champion of Death. Interestingly, those two films has weak fighting choreography, while Return Of The Street Fighter is the opposite - poor acting, poor story, but great fight choreography. It's too bad that New Line Cinema has not treated this film or any of the other Chiba films it owns with respect by releasing them uncut on DVD with the original Japanese audio, and allowing inferior bootlegs to flood the market. While the Street Fighter films are not exactly works of art, they deserve to be seen in widescreen and gore intact, especially in light of the recent success of Kill Bill, a film that took gore to the extreme a la Japanese action cinema. Perhaps one day New Line will get its act together and realize that all the money the bootleggers have been getting out of their DVD sales could have been going to them all along.
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