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...
FORBIDDEN TALE OF THE GENROKU ERA (1975)
aka Story of a Nympomaniac
aka Story of a Nympomaniac
好色元禄㊙物語
directed by Ikuo Sekimoto
Production: Toei Studio
Oct 14, 1975
67 minutes Color
Yuriko Hishimi as Natsu
Maki Tachibana as Oshishi
Yuriko Hishimi as Natsu
Yuriko Hishimi is Natsu, a golddigger in old Japan who isn’t interested in romance, only money. Her sister (Maki Tachibana) believes in love and marriage and that her loser husband is ok...
UNTIL she gets sold to a neighbor for the night for 10 gold coins by him. Afterwards she comes home to catch him red handed raping her sister after killing her father. In a daze she stabs and kills him and they dump him in the swamp.
Maki Tachibana as Oshishi
Overwrought with guilt she decides she must sleep with 1000 men to atone for her crime…
Yuriko Hishimi as Natsu
Meanwhile, Natsu isn’t fazed and instead seeks revenge on the silk merchant that thought she was too low rent for his father’s high standards, marrying a ‘nice’ girl. And boy does she get her revenge!...
If the ‘fan’ subtitles are legit, I thought this was a pretty funny little tale (clocking in at a modest 67 minutes) with some life lessons, some funny dialogue, and of course lots of skin.
Maki Tachibana as Oshishi
Maki Tachibana as Oshishi
Yuriko Hishimi as Natsu
Yuriko Hishimi as Natsu
Maki Tachibana as Oshishi
Oct 14, 1975
67 minutes Color
Yuriko Hishimi as Natsu
Yuriko Hishimi is Natsu, a golddigger in old Japan who isn’t interested in romance, only money. Her sister (Maki Tachibana) believes in love and marriage and that her loser husband is ok...
UNTIL she gets sold to a neighbor for the night for 10 gold coins by him. Afterwards she comes home to catch him red handed raping her sister after killing her father. In a daze she stabs and kills him and they dump him in the swamp.
Maki Tachibana as Oshishi
Yuriko Hishimi as Natsu
Meanwhile, Natsu isn’t fazed and instead seeks revenge on the silk merchant that thought she was too low rent for his father’s high standards, marrying a ‘nice’ girl. And boy does she get her revenge!...
If the ‘fan’ subtitles are legit, I thought this was a pretty funny little tale (clocking in at a modest 67 minutes) with some life lessons, some funny dialogue, and of course lots of skin.
Maki Tachibana as Oshishi
Maki Tachibana as Oshishi
Yuriko Hishimi as Natsu
Yuriko Hishimi as Natsu
Maki Tachibana as Oshishi
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