We are still working hard to discover a movie even crazier than the Lord of the Wu-Tang, and so far I haven’t been able to do it. Yet, Sister Street Fighter is an honorable mention. If I had looked at the English-translated titles before watching it, I would have figured this out before. Those are Woman Certain Kill Fist and Female Fighting Fist in Danger. Sonny Chiba is also in this film and I must say, he looked so different that at first, I did not even recognize him. He was also much younger and did not tilt his chin quite so high, so it had me perplexed.
Evaluating this piece more closely, expect confusion and a lot of it. The best practice is to relax and let the movie wash over you until you laugh yourself to the point where a visit to the emergency room is needed to fix your ruptured diaphragm. The plot, as far as I can piece together, revolves around a certain Tina Long, a very young Japanese woman who is a skilled fighter of some sort. They call her a “street fighter but I would venture a guess that given the condition of her nose, this is a misnomer and she actually participates in “tournaments which feature a lot of protective gear.
Tina is a decent girl and a champion, who wears practical and comfortable civvies and permits me to contemplate and picture someone fighting in where sigh no wonder this film wasn’t a success. She also has the nerve to put her hair up so that she can see as opposed to having it loose over a corset made out of vinyl. There IS a dominatrix torturer expert in this film at one point, but she is costumed in a skirt that reaches the ankles and a high-neck, long blouse. Topless there is and not only is it completely random but its deployment is so simplistic and utterly unimaginative.
For some reason, Tina’s sibling is now unaccounted for and the police claim that they require her help to locate him, which is quite ironic due to the awful pretend impersonation police act in American films while also expecting her on some undercover duty in a drug operation. This is by far the main plot of the movie and believe me, it does not have much plot to begin with. Most of it revolves around Tina having to run around trying to fight any and all men she could encounter and the ‘Cocky’ who happens to be the drug king tries to figure out a plan to end her by simply employing more men against her he’s a slow learner, for sure. He manages to deduce that if he varies the henchmen he employs, she might get thrown off. Some of them are donned in pointy wicker hats (believe it or not) while others are disguised as ‘Amazon Thai Kickboxers’ (a bunch of stuntmen in drag clad with leopard-print mini dresses and fishnet tights) and then there was this loud and shrieky nunchaku fighter dressed in a pimp style mesh shirt, which is simply too much.
In comparison to the American action karate films I am used to, the action in this movie is much more enjoyable, although admittedly I do expect far too little from American movies. It was undeniably entertaining to observe a woman who was actually selected for the role not for her ability to speak, but for her physical portrayal of how she would fight instead of for her eagerness to dress like a cheap high-paid call girl. It’s not terrible at all. It’s just a bit bizarre, along with the deafening shrieks from the rest of the characters.
We once in a while found ourselves confused as to whether a character was permanently gone or not. One such example is our heroine escaping through a dark basement while being chased by some henchmen. The next scene cuts to a corridor with a new set of henchmen! And do not get me started on the fight cuts. Out of nowhere some stock footage of Seagulls is thrown about for no reason. There is zero respect for narrative continuity.
Cocky’s basement on the other hand is filled with incredibly realistic bats. You straightforwardly see the strings that fling the bats around the actors’ heads.
How amusing! Sometimes, it is downright funny. Indeed, it could do with its own Mutant Viewing, provided I could persuade someone else to sit through it. If this one sounds like something you would want to watch, Chiba’s DVDs might be available in some collections at a local Wal-Mart. Get ‘Cocky’ today!
Have you ever stopped to look at Chan’s nose up close?
we all know who he is without even needing to look. He has his glasses on all the time. To put things in perspective, he can be found wearing them while talking in the pool, at night when he is watching a heroine being tortured, or even in bed with his bimbo.
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