BLIND WOMAN'S CURSE (1970) 怪談昇り竜 directed by Teruo Ishii Production: Nikkatsu Distribution = Dainichi Utsuhai June 20, 1970 85 minutes Fujicolor Cinemascope Meiko Kaji as Akemi Tachibana Hoki Tokuda as Aiko Gouda Makoto Sato as Tani Shouichi Toru Abe as Dobashi Shiro Otsuji as Senba-tatsu Before Lady Snowblood and before Female Prisoner Scorpion movies - in fact, around the time she was first getting noticed in the Stray Cat Rock series, SOMEONE had already figured out that the soft spoken, demure Meiko Kaji had an onscreen intensity about her that was suited for the oncoming stylistic shift in Japanese cinema. (Meiko Kaji) Blind Woman's Curse is the story of Akemi (Meiko Kaji) who has assumed the role of her father's crime organization in pre-modern Japan. While fighting a rival clan, she accidently blind's the leader's sister. She notices a stray black cat lapping up the blood from it - cursing her... (Meiko Kaji ) After getting out of prison, she tries to tak...
WILD SEX GANG (1973)
狂走セックス族
directed by Takayuki Minagawa
Production: Toei (Kyoto studio)
April 28, 1973
83 minutes Color Widescreen
April 28, 1973
83 minutes Color Widescreen
Takashi Shirai as Junya
Tsunehiko Watase as Hongo
Miki Sugimoto as Hiroko
Isayama Hiroko as Fumiko
This is one tough movie to find!
Starting off with a 4 on 4 nude countryside motor cycle ride that turns into an orgy (wish I could figure out who THIS girl is...)
You figure this is maybe just getting started with the exploitation......and everyone is having fun!
But then it turns into a misogynistic bore.
Some punk kid named Junya (Longtime Japanese actor Takashi Shirai) tricks his dad (who's in the course of getting blackmailed by the aforementioned local biker gang for banging one their girls) into buying him a '750cc' motor bike, so he can race cops and flag down a local hottie played by Miki Sugimoto.
(Miki Sugimoto and Tsunehiko Watase)
But she doesn't put out, so the gang kidnaps and rapes a random girl in the woods (she ends up liking it - oh for pete's sake), before kicking Junya out of the group because he brings too much heat (the cops)!
Undaunted Junya then rapes the girlfriend of the cop who is after him (at least it's rape until she gets turned on by it - sigh).
Of course, he sets it up so the cop walks in on them, but the cop ends up punching HER instead of HIM, who he just lets walk out. (The cop is played by longtime Japanese actor Tsunehiko Watase and the girlfriend is played by another long time Japanese actress Isayama Hiroko - the only likable character in the whole movie)
Of course, he sets it up so the cop walks in on them, but the cop ends up punching HER instead of HIM, who he just lets walk out. (The cop is played by longtime Japanese actor Tsunehiko Watase and the girlfriend is played by another long time Japanese actress Isayama Hiroko - the only likable character in the whole movie)
(Isayama Hiroko as Fumiko)
After Junya brags about it to him on the street though, the cop kicks the crap out of him and... ah, say it isn't so... Miki Sugimoto comes to his rescue and - you guessed it, feels sorry for him and sleeps with him! And then becomes his motorcycle teacher. Grrr....
The excitement, the thrills, and the rape... don't forget about the rape!
The old gang catches Miki riding in the woods and drag HER off to rape (what the hell is with these guys), but suddenly that's not cool to old Junya, and he beats them all up. Except one of the goons gets a solid kick to Miki's stomach, knocking her out. If this were a GOOD movie, it'd be all about MIKI and the girls banding together and getting some revenge.
It's NOT though... Junya ends up killing a different cop in a bike race...
It's NOT though... Junya ends up killing a different cop in a bike race...
Miki gets arrested, a lame chase scene happens and then...the longest motorcycle chase scene in the history of movies... plus the stupidest ending too. And Coca-Cola wanted product placement of Sprite in this movie?
There are a lot of reasons to not like this movie, besides it's ugly attitude toward women (though that's certainly enough) - it's a rather tame performance from our lovely Miki Sugimoto, and she has to rely upon her 'acting' skills through almost all of her scenes....
My 'what' skills?
It still gets two points for a handful of reasons - the opening scene, Miki Sugimoto (in any form), a Japanese Rock Band, and... it's 70's Japan.
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