Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread(女必殺拳 危機一発)
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Japan · 1974
1h 25m
Director Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Starring Etsuko Shihomi, Tamayo Mitsukawa, Hideo Murota, Masashi Ishibashi
Genre Action, Crime
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This time 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, Bykakuran (Tamayo Mitsukawa), working as a jewelry designer, is secretly if unhappily involved with the gangsters.
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