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  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...
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DELINQUENT BOSS: OCHO the SHE WOLF (1968)

不良番長　猪の鹿お蝶 

directed by Yukio Noda


Production: Toei (Tokyo studio)　
Jan 18, 1969
89 minutes Eastman Color Widescreen






Tatsuo Umemiya as Kanada
Junko Miyazono as Ocho
with
Shin'chi Chiba
Bunta Sahawara




Kanada (Tatsuo Umemiya) and his group bust out of prison and five years later they're running a successful dance studio that covers as a way to kidnap woman and sell them to gentlemen's clubs around the world. We call that 'Human Trafficking' today. They also randomly kidnap women and rape them for fun. 





 The yakuza isn't too keen on them working thier turf and start muscling them. Each scam they undertake, seems to end up crossing the yakuza and just as the yakuza is about to do one of them in, their new friend Ocho of Inoshika (Junko Miyazono, looking like she came straight from the Okatsu set) or old jailhouse friend Sonny Chiba show up to save them. 

(I'm almost positive that's a less bitchy looking Natsu Tamami to his right. She's much hotter in this movie, than the first, though she's a different charcater.)



Chiba's part is minimal, which is unfortunate, because... well, because he's Chiba; but their OTHER jailhouse friend Bunta Sugawara shows up to help out whenever it seems Chiba's not around. Maybe they had conflicting schedules?


Finally, when a few of the good guys end up dead, it's time for the big payback - and everyone who's left shows up for it. 

it's a pretty good finale, and Chiba earns his paycheck in his final scene, but this movie is a 3/5 primarily because of all the additional star power.

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