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...
GIRL BOSS 6: Mano-A-Mano (1974)
女番長 タイマン勝負
directed by Ikuo Sekimoto
Production: Toei (Kyoto Studio)
January 15, 1974
87 minutes Color Widescreen
Reiko Ike as Keiko
Tsunehiko Watase as Kuroki
Ryoko Ema as Eri
Toru Abe as Oshima
Mitsuko Aoi as Mayumi
Ritsuko Fujiyama as Miwa
Number 6 in the series of Girl Boss movies, this and the last one are directed by Ikuo Sekimoto. Again in this installment, we get a lot of the traditional Girl Boss flavor: Prison fights, revenge, Yakuza involvement, nudity...just not a lot of anything new to it.
Unless you want to count cooking stray dogs to sell the meat or peeing.
Hmm...
Anyway, bad girl Keiko (Reiko Ike) stabs the man who killed her sister and goes to jail, where she's constantly beaten up and intimidated by Girl Boss Miwa (Ritsuko Fujiyami). Once Miwa's released, Reiko works her way to the Boss spot of the prison, and is released one year later (at the end of the opening credits).
She's thinking revenge.
Helping some friends with their debts to a club, she finds out its run by Oshima (the always snarling Toru Abe), the man she stabbed and went to prison for. Regular Sukeban actress Ryoko Ema is another Girl Boss she squares off with and Tsunehiko Watase plays a cool yakuza.
There are what I guess you'd call plot twists, to keep you on your toes; let's just say it's a fun little romp that has Reiko in it, with lots of cool fashion, some great music (a few of the songs are on the Miki Sugimoto vs Reiko Ike CD), and an entertaining finale.
January 15, 1974
87 minutes Color Widescreen
Unless you want to count cooking stray dogs to sell the meat or peeing.
Hmm...
Hmm...
Anyway, bad girl Keiko (Reiko Ike) stabs the man who killed her sister and goes to jail, where she's constantly beaten up and intimidated by Girl Boss Miwa (Ritsuko Fujiyami). Once Miwa's released, Reiko works her way to the Boss spot of the prison, and is released one year later (at the end of the opening credits).
She's thinking revenge.
Helping some friends with their debts to a club, she finds out its run by Oshima (the always snarling Toru Abe), the man she stabbed and went to prison for. Regular Sukeban actress Ryoko Ema is another Girl Boss she squares off with and Tsunehiko Watase plays a cool yakuza.
There are what I guess you'd call plot twists, to keep you on your toes; let's just say it's a fun little romp that has Reiko in it, with lots of cool fashion, some great music (a few of the songs are on the Miki Sugimoto vs Reiko Ike CD), and an entertaining finale.
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