Today’s Deal on Fire is the Blu-ray set for the Sister Street Fighter Collection, featuring artwork by Kungfubob O’Brien of 36 Styles and a load of supplemental treats.

After the massive success of The Street Fighter, the Toei Company decided to build a new karate series around a female lead, and cast a young actress who had appeared in a cameo role alongside her mentor Sonny Chiba (Fight Fist). Still a teenager at the time, Etsuko Shihomi (Soul of Chiba) exploded onscreen in her first leading role and created a new character type: a tough fighter who was fierce, fearless, good-hearted, and decidedly non-sexualised, a departure from Toei’s typical formula.

In 1974’s Sister Street Fighter, Shihomi is the half-Chinese, half-Japanese Li Koryu, who travels to Yokohama to investigate the disappearance of her brother, an undercover cop. Li discovers a smuggling ring run by a drug lord with his own personal army of deadly fighters, and must penetrate his evil lair with the help of a fellow karate master (played by Chiba). Shihomi and director Kazuhiko Yamaguchi (Wolf Guy) made two additional films based on the same character over the next year, Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread and Return of the Sister Street Fighter, with a final unrelated follow-up (Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist) helmed by original Street Fighter director Shigehiro Ozawa appearing in 1976.

Genre entertainment of the highest order, the Sister Street Fighter films are a wild ride through some of the best exploitation cinema Japan produced in the 1970s. Funky and over-the-top, filled with wall-to-wall action, and featuring some of the craziest villains ever depicted onscreen, the series embodies female power in a male-dominated genre and is a magnificent showcase for the physical presence and martial arts skills of its lead star.

Special Features and Specs:

High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations of all four films

Original uncompressed Japanese mono audio

Original English dubbed audio for Sister Street Fighter

New optional English subtitle translation for all four films

English SDH subtitles for the English dub for Sister Street Fighter

New video interviews with actor Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba, director Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, and screenwriter Masahiro Kakefuda

Original Japanese theatrical trailers for all four films

Original U.S. theatrical trailer for Sister Street Fighter, plus original English opening titles to the film

Original German theatrical trailer for Sister Street Fighter, plus original German opening titles to the film

Stills and poster gallery

Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Kungfubob O’Brien

First pressing only: Illustrated booklet featuring writing on the series by Patrick Macias and a new essay on the U.S. release of Toei’s karate films by Chris Poggiali

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