Movies like The Return of Sister Street Fighter

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   Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread

   Same saga

   1974 · 85 min · Action · Crime · Drama

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   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, working as a jewelry designer, is secretly, if unhappily, involved with the gangsters.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same saga or cinematic universe
   • the same director

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   Sister Street Fighter

   Same saga

   1974 · 86 min · Action · Crime · Drama

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   Li Mansei is a martial-arts champion turned undercover agent. When he is captured by a drug lord, his sister Li Koryu turns to his former martial-arts school, including the powerful Sonny Kawasaka, for help in the inevitable battle royale.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same saga or cinematic universe
   • the same director

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   Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist

   Same saga

   1976 · 77 min · Action · Crime · Drama

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   Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about karate. To help her friend Michi avenge her brother, she sneaks into a movie studio in Kyoto where a drug dealing syndicate is based.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same saga or cinematic universe
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   The Street Fighter

   Shared cast

   1974 · 90 min · Action · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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   Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress of her millions.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: karate and martial arts
   • several principal cast members

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   Karate Bear Fighter

   Same director

   1975 · 87 min · Action · Adventure

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   Masutatsu Oyama is recruited by his former Army friend to work for a crew of gangsters, but when they kill both his girlfriend and his best friend, Oyama flees away to a small town where he both learns lessons in martial arts philosophy from a wandering master and helps a young boy take on a challenge to fight a ferocious captured bear to win money for the boy's injured father.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • shared themes: karate and martial arts

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   Female Yakuza Tale

   Similar atmosphere

   1973 · 86 min · Action · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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   Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared theme: yakuza
   • a closely matched era

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   Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

   Similar atmosphere

   1973 · 99 min · Action · Crime · Drama

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   Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared theme: yakuza
   • a closely matched era

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   Street Mobster

   Shared themes

   1972 · 92 min · Action · Crime · Thriller

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   After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza factions. He gathers his crew and takes them on.

   Why it connects

   • substantial genre overlap
   • shared theme: yakuza
   • a closely matched era

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   Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman

   Shared themes

   1971 · 94 min · Action · Adventure · Drama

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   Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After discovering who the guilty parties are -- an accomplished Chinese martial artist named Wang Kang and his youthful attendant -- Zatoichi finds them and discovers that the pair's mixed up with a dangerous bunch of terrorist samurai who murdered the boy's parents. Now, Zatoichi must step in to save the day.

   Why it connects

   • substantial genre overlap
   • shared theme: yakuza
   • a closely matched era

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    No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers

    Similar atmosphere

    1990 · 101 min · Action · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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    Two feuding brothers of differing political views, one a policeman, the other a martial artist, join forces to avenge the death of their father, a retired agent who was brutally murdered by the mafia.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • shared themes: karate and martial arts

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