# Dragon Princess

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{{Infobox film
| name           = Dragon Princess
| image          = Dragonprincessbox.jpg
| caption        = DVD cover
| director       = Yutaka Kohira
| producer       = Kineo Yoshimine
| writer         = Hiroo Matsuda
| starring       = [Etsuko Shihomi](/source/Etsuko_Shihomi)<br />[Sonny Chiba](/source/Sonny_Chiba)
| music          = [Shunsuke Kikuchi](/source/Shunsuke_Kikuchi)
| cinematography = Hanjiro Nakazawa
| editing        = Osamu Tanaka
| distributor    = [Toei](/source/Toei_Company)
| released       = {{Film date|1976|01|31}}
| runtime        = 81 minutes
| country        = Japan
| language       = Japanese
| budget         =
}}
{{nihongo|'''''Dragon Princess'''''|必殺女拳士|lead=yes}} is a 1975 [karate](/source/karate) film directed by Yutaka Kohira.<ref>{{cite news|title= Welcome to Grindhouse: Dragon Princess/Karate Warriors|publisher= [DVD Talk](/source/DVD_Talk)|url= http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/30236/welcome-to-grindhouse-dragon-princess-karate-warriors/|access-date=2014-03-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/Details?id=12545|title=必殺女拳士|publisher=[Kinema Junpo](/source/Kinema_Junpo)|access-date=27 December 2020}}</ref>

==Plot==
The film opens with Isshin Higaki ([Sonny Chiba](/source/Sonny_Chiba)) and his daughter Yumi Higaki ([Etsuko Shihomi](/source/Etsuko_Shihomi)) being attacked by a rival karate master, Hironobu Nikaido ([Bin Amatsu](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Etsuko_Shihomi) as Yumi Higaki
*[Sonny Chiba](/source/Sonny_Chiba) as Isshin Higaki
*[Yasuaki Kurata](/source/Yasuaki_Kurata) as Masahiko Okizaki
*[Jirō Chiba](/source/Jir%C5%8D_Yabuki) as Jiro Chinen
*[Bin Amatsu](/source/Bin_Amatsu) as Hironobu Nikaido
*[Masashi Ishibashi](/source/Masashi_Ishibashi_(actor)) as Shiroge Oni
*Tatsuya Kameyama as Baba
*Shunsuke Kariya as Yokoi
*[Yoshi Katō](/source/Yoshi_Kat%C5%8D) as Kakuzen

==Home media==
On November 20, 2007, BCI Eclipse released the film in their ''Sonny Chiba Collection'' DVD set, which also includes ''[Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon](/source/Golgo_13%3A_Assignment_Kowloon)'', ''[The Bullet Train](/source/The_Bullet_Train)'', ''[Karate Kiba](/source/Karate_Kiba)'', ''[Karate Warriors](/source/Karate_Warriors)'', and ''[Sister Street Fighter](/source/Sister_Street_Fighter)''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/Sonny-Chiba-Collection/dp/B000WC38PK |title=Sonny Chiba Collection |website=Amazon |access-date=2017-08-19}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{imdb title|0165256|Dragon Princess}}
* {{jmdb title|year=1976|id=cz000200|title=必殺女拳士}}

Category:1976 films
Category:1976 martial arts films
Category:Films directed by Yutaka Kohira
Category:Japanese martial arts films
Category:Karate films
Category:Toei Company films
Category:Films scored by Shunsuke Kikuchi

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Category:Japanese films about revenge
Category:1976 Japanese films

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