| Dragon Princess | |
| Director: | Yutaka Kohira |
| Producer: | Kineo Yoshimine |
| Starring: | Etsuko Shihomi Sonny Chiba |
| Music: | Shunsuke Kikuchi |
| Cinematography: | Hanjiro Nakazawa |
| Editing: | Osamu Tanaka |
| Distributor: | Toei |
| Runtime: | 81 minutes |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
Dragon Princess is a 1975 karate film directed by Yutaka Kohira.[1] [2]
The film opens with Isshin Higaki (Sonny Chiba) and his daughter Yumi Higaki (Etsuko Shihomi) being attacked by a rival karate master, Hironobu Nikaido (Bin Amatsu) who wants Isshin's job as top karate master. Nikaido teams up with four other masters and they manage to disable one of Isshin's arms and wound his eye with a kunai knife. Alive but crippled Isshin 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.
On November 20, 2007, BCI Eclipse released the film in their Sonny Chiba Collection DVD set, which also includes , The Bullet Train, Karate Kiba, Karate Warriors, and Sister Street Fighter.[3]