Dragon Princess

Dragon Princess
Directed by	Yutaka Kohira
Written by	Hiroo Matsuda
Produced by	Kineo Yoshimine
Starring	Etsuko Shihomi Sonny Chiba
Cinematography	Hanjiro Nakazawa
Edited by	Osamu Tanaka
Music by	Shunsuke Kikuchi
Distributed by	Toei
Release date	January 31, 1976 (1976-01-31)
Running time	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.

Plot

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.

Cast

• Etsuko Shihomi as Yumi Higaki
• Sonny Chiba as Kazuma Higaki
• Yasuaki Kurata as Masahiko Okizaki
• Jiro Chiba as Jiro Chinen
• Bin Amatsu as Hironobu Nikaido
• Masashi Ishibashi as Shiroge Oni
• Tatsuya Kameyama as Baba
• Shunsuke Kariya as Yokoi
• Yoshi Katō as Kakuzen

External links

• Dragon Princess at IMDb
• 必殺女拳士 at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)