Dragon Princess
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| Directed by | Yutaka Kohira |
| Produced by | Kineo Yoshimine |
| Written by | Hiroo Matsuda |
| Starring |
Etsuko Shihomi Sonny Chiba |
| Music by | Shunsuke Kikuchi |
| Cinematography | Hanjiro Nakazawa |
| Edited by | Osamu Tanaka |
| Distributed by | Toei |
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81 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Dragon Princess aka Sonny Chiba's Dragon Princess (必殺女拳士 Hissatsu Onna Kenshi?) is a 1976 Japanese karate revenge film directed by Yutaka Kohira.
The film opens with Kazuma Higaki (Sonny Chiba) and his daughter Yumi Higaki (Etsuko Shihomi) being attacked by a rival karate master, Hironobu Nikaido (Bin Amatsu) who wants Kazuma's job as top karate master. Nikaido teams up with four other masters and they manage to disable one of Kazuma's arms and wound his eye with a kunai knife. Alive but crippled Kazuma and Yumi retreat to New York where he trains his daughter to avenge him and the death of a friend. After her father's death, Yumi returns to Tokyo to take her revenge. She enters a karate tournament funded by a corrupt business man, but Nikaido, seeking to assure his student's supremacy in the coming fight, sends his four top fighters to wipe out the rest of the competition. Eventually, Yumi, with the help of another karate student, Masahiko Okizaki (Yasuaki Kurata) kills Nikaido and his minions. Her arm is permanently disabled, keeping her from continuing her karate but allowing her to continue on with the rest of her life.
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