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...
VIOLENT PANIC: The BIG CRASH (1976)
暴走パニック 大激突
directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Production: Toei (Tokyo Studio)
Feb 28, 1976
85 minutes Color Widescreen
Tsunehiko Watase as Hiroshi
Miki Sugimoto as Goro
Yayoi Watanabe as Yoko
Hideo Murota as Mayumi
One of Miki Sugimoto’s last movies, she plays the love interest of a bank robber (Tsunehiko Watase, again, but that’s ok!), who she slowly wins over, even though he has more than his share of problems. His partner gets killed in a heist, and his dead partner’s brother decides to come after him. Then the police discover his identity, and track him down leading to an amazingly crazy car chase involving angry citizens, a motorcycle gang, an angry cop… Fukasaku knows how to create and film frantic mayhem, that’s for sure!
There’s a lot here… if you’ve only seen Fukasaku’s Battles Without Honor and Humanity, then you’re missing out. Here he’s able to stretch out and have fun with the characters, though still within the confines of their desperation. It’s still intense, it’s just able to switch gears more naturally and take some time with the characters.
Miki Sugimoto of course, is naked throughout and it includes one of her more revealing scenes….
No maeberi’s here!
Feb 28, 1976
85 minutes Color Widescreen
There’s a lot here… if you’ve only seen Fukasaku’s Battles Without Honor and Humanity, then you’re missing out. Here he’s able to stretch out and have fun with the characters, though still within the confines of their desperation. It’s still intense, it’s just able to switch gears more naturally and take some time with the characters.
Miki Sugimoto of course, is naked throughout and it includes one of her more revealing scenes….
No maeberi’s here!
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