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...
FURYO BANCHO: ROUNDED UP (1972)
不良番長 一網打尽
directed by Yukio Noda
Production: Toei (Tokyo Studio)
Sept 14, 1972
88 minutes Color Widescreen
Tatsuo Umemiya as Hiroshi
Shingo Yamashiro as Goro
Yuriko Hishimi as Yoko
Anne Mari as Mayumi
Tatsuya Fuji as Hajime
Rikiya Yasuoka as Apache
One of the last, if not THE last of 16 or so Furyo Bancho movies, this survives solely because of the star power involved and a scene that Yuriko Hishimi fans won’t want to miss.
It’s the same story, minus the rape for fun and kidnapping women to sell in forced prostitution of the earlier episodes (I guess it’s trying to go more ‘mainstream’), as wanted small time criminal Tetsuo Umemiya crosses the yakuza, and to escape them, turns himself in to the cops.
Looking a little pudgier, dressed in a pink button up shirt and loose leather pants, he’s still the coolest guy in the room, at least until he meets Tatsuya Fuji in prison, who he’ll run into later on. He gets out of jail rather quick and runs a scam, meets a new ragtag gang of colorful characters, and forces himself as leader.
The movie then tries to move toward the same conclusion I suspect we’ve seen in all of these (I’ve only seen this one and the first two, so I’m assuning this). There isn’t much interesting through most of it, so they break out in song and dance a few times (I'm not joking), and show us far too much of Umemiya in his tighty whiteys or worse, his naked butt.
The only saving grace to it is Yuriko Hishimi’s full nude scene ('essential part blurring’, as they say) from front and back, though I did catch a glimpse of her ‘maebari’, the ONLY reason this movie gets a ‘2’ rating. There’s also the wasted use of Annu Mari (Branded to Kill) in her last listed movie role for 30 years!
Save yourself the trouble and enjoy the pictures!
The maebari!
Sept 14, 1972
88 minutes Color Widescreen
It’s the same story, minus the rape for fun and kidnapping women to sell in forced prostitution of the earlier episodes (I guess it’s trying to go more ‘mainstream’), as wanted small time criminal Tetsuo Umemiya crosses the yakuza, and to escape them, turns himself in to the cops.
Looking a little pudgier, dressed in a pink button up shirt and loose leather pants, he’s still the coolest guy in the room, at least until he meets Tatsuya Fuji in prison, who he’ll run into later on. He gets out of jail rather quick and runs a scam, meets a new ragtag gang of colorful characters, and forces himself as leader.
The movie then tries to move toward the same conclusion I suspect we’ve seen in all of these (I’ve only seen this one and the first two, so I’m assuning this). There isn’t much interesting through most of it, so they break out in song and dance a few times (I'm not joking), and show us far too much of Umemiya in his tighty whiteys or worse, his naked butt.
The only saving grace to it is Yuriko Hishimi’s full nude scene ('essential part blurring’, as they say) from front and back, though I did catch a glimpse of her ‘maebari’, the ONLY reason this movie gets a ‘2’ rating. There’s also the wasted use of Annu Mari (Branded to Kill) in her last listed movie role for 30 years!
Save yourself the trouble and enjoy the pictures!
The maebari!
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