Thursday, November 14, 2019

Sister Street Fighter - Etsuko Shihomi (1974) - View over Victoria Harbour

Another break from the monochrome with a quick visit to a 70's classic, Sister Street Fighter. It stars Etsuko Shihomi as a karate expert whose undercover cop brother is kidnapped by the organisation he has infiltrated and used for drug experimentation.

The Hong Kong connection is extremely tenuous, with a couple of establishing shots for the story set up - the gang the brother has been kidnapped by was based out of Hong Kong - before the action is transferred back to Japan for the remainder of the film. As a result there are only a couple of posts to put up for this film. The first shot is a nice view of the harbour that starts on Tsim Sha Tsui before pulling back so that the former Tamar dock is visible. However, notice that Ocean Terminal is missing from this view which means this footage must have been filmed before 1966 (the movie was shot in 1974) and is therefore stock footage (Toei made quite a few films in HK through the 60's so it's possible this footage is from one of those films).

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