DRAGON PRINCESS was made at the same time Etsuko Shihomi was making her SISTER STREET FIGHTER series of movies and it shares a cast with those films too, including Sonny Chiba and the great Yasuaki Kurata. Chiba plays a karate champion early on who ends up getting beaten thanks to a treacherous rival. Shihomi plays his daughter who trains and then heads off to Japan to get revenge. It's as simple as that, simplistic storytelling accompanied by plentiful action, shot through with a stylish eye. The tale never quite reaches the high of the Chiba fight at the beginning and it's not as good as his STREET FIGHTER movies either, but it's still a decent watch for karate lovers.
Review of Sonny Chiba's Dragon Princess
