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: ESCAPE FROM REFORM SCHOOL (1973)
女番長 感化院脱走
directed by Sadao Nakajima
Production: Toei (Kyoto Studio)
May 24, 1973
90 minutes Color Widescreen
May 24, 1973
90 minutes Color Widescreen
Miki Sugimoto as Aoki
Yuko Kano as Mina
Hiroko Isayama as Kyoko
Rika Sudo as Maki
Fujika Omori as Yuki
Tsunehiko Watase as Yoichi
No preview, but here's a short clip I found....
(Miki Sugimoto)
The best of these movies are all about girl power and accomplishing what they want with only the slightest help of a male ally.
Either way, it's still a worthy example of the genre and features the usual display of exploitation - showers, ripped clothes, perverted men, sexual angst...
Miki Sugimoto, a regular reform school escapist, is caught and brought back, eventually uniting a crew of delinquents to put together a big escape - leading to a showdown finale.
It may not sound like high praise, but I did like and enjoy this movie!
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