1974 - SISTER STREET FIGHTER aka Revenge of the Dragon

Definitely a big step up from the mediocre Return of the Street Fighter.  Sister Street Fighter stars Etsuko Shihomi as Tina  a martial artist searching for her brother an undercover cop attempting to locate the source of a heroin connection entering Japan  The heroin is actually hidden in women's wigs but that's another story.  Anyway as Estuko begins the search for her missing brother she runs up against a tough Japanese gang peddling the hair heroin.

Needless to say since this a Street Fighter film, there is lots of martial arts action.  Etsuko Shihomi  karate chops her way through the usual bunch of incompetent bad guys.  Sonny Chiba shows up in this film but this time he is not playing Terry Sugury but a martial arts instructor named Sonny Hibach. Of course when Chiba starts fighting he's back to his old tricks of ripping body parts out of his opponents.

 

Also featured in this film is Masashi Ishibashi as a bad guy called Hammerhead who is sent out to kill Etusko Shihomi.  This is Ishibashi’s third appearance  in a marital arts film that also has Sonny Chiba in it.  Chiba ripped out his vocal chords in the Street Fighter and yanked out more body organs in Return of the Street Fighter.  This time Etsuko Shihomi gets to finish him off in this film.  But I'll bet he shows up in the other Street Fighter films in this series.  Shihomi was also a skilled martial artist.

Well there's lots of action and blood.  The karate fights are entertaining and Etsuko Shihomi makes a good heroine, apparently in real life she was a trained martial artist, actress and a singer.  

The film was written by Masahiro Kakefuda and Norifumi Suzuki, the running time is 86 or 81 minutes depending on how much of the bloody fighting was cut out I suppose for different audiences.