Donald Eric (fesgeppt) This actress can act and kick rear end. It is almost scary how good such a slender and little girl can be. She sure has the chops. The story itself is good and entertaining, but mostly cliche. The other actors around the main actress are weak. The Western persons especially are weak and cannot match the Japanese actors. I suppose the limited pool of available foreigners in Japan contributed to the issue. Otherwise, a great buy!

Stephanie Bilbo I enjoyed this film. It was full of action, entertaining and all this from two pretty damn hot chicks. Yeah. And unlike that girl from Star Wars (the new remake one) this girl is pretty and kicks butt... Enjoyed the action until the inevitable end.

suite92 When very young, Ayaka's karate instructor father was killed and her sister kidnapped.As an adult, Ayaka determines to find out what happened. She has her father's black belt, and the bad folks in the film want to take it in some ritualized way. Ayaka decides to fight back.Will Ayaka survive all the hostile attention? Will the two sisters reunite? Will the director get a better adviser about fight sequences? ------Scores-------Cinematography: 10/10 Excellent, beautiful, professional.Sound: 10/10 Excellent.Acting: 2/10 Rina Takeda was one of the centres of the film, and her performance was not believable: too light, too small, too thin, too unprepared, too little trained, too slow, too inaccurate. Takeda's opponents were too passive and often unmoving; they seldom press their advantage when a decisive blow was available. This sort of PC nonsense is completely the opposite of convincing. The fist, barely moving, of a 100 pound woman stops and repels the flying kick of a 180 pound man? Never has happened, never will happen--outside of a film where the director holds the viewer in utter contempt.Screenplay: 0/10 Should have been billed as fantasy. There is enough material for a 15 minute short; 91 minutes is way too long, especially when the filler consists of insultingly bogus fight sequences.

ebiros2 The quality of Japanese movies in this genre has always been so so at best, but it seems to be slipping downwards in recent years.Story of this movie is pretty derivative. There's a family of outrageously potent karate masters who in the old age killed any opponent with one blow. The modern descendant of this clan gets attacked by another group of criminal martial artists. The father is killed, and two small daughters survive. About ten years later, the grown up daughter is found by the martial artist gang, and is being targeted again. It's revenge for the girl, and finishing the unfinished business for the bad guys.The movie has pretty bad action scenes. There's not a hint of moves that shows that any of the characters are who they are supposed to be. The moves don't look real, and this is probably not the fault of the actors, but due to bad choreography. Also, they could have put little more attention to staging the each act. It's reminiscent of cheaply made adult videos in many areas. The level of Japanese action movies are about where Hong Kong movies were in the early '70s. Compared to the action scenes of say like the "Ip Man 2" there's really no contest. There are period action pieces coming out of Japan that still holds quality, but ones that are positioned in the modern era has been going down hill.There are better made movies in martial arts genre, and you'd probably better served watching those.