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...
ZERO WOMAN: RED HANDCUFFS (1974)
０課の女 赤い手錠
directed by Yukio Noda
Production: Toei Studio (TOKYO)
May 21, 1974
88 minutes Color
Miki Sugimoto as Rei, Zero Woman
Eiji Go as Yoshihide
Tetsuro Tanba as Zengo Nagumo
Hideo Murota as Masashi Kusaka
Yoko Mihara as the Madame
Hiromi Kishi as Kyoko Nagumo
Maybe as close to a perfect exploitation movie as we can get, this flick doesn’t wink or nod at the audience, it punches it right across the face.
There are no good guys, only the bad, and those that get in the way of the bad. Part way through the movie you can just sort of tell that NO ONE is going to get through this in one piece.
Even Miki Sugimoto, the Zero Woman Cop sent to rescue a politician’s daughter from some nut cases, manages to simply outlast everyone else. She takes plenty of abuse along the way, some of it hard to watch… and yet you can’t help but watch.
Eiji Go is a psycho here, with Tetsuro Tanba as the ice cold Politician who’s daughter has been kidnapped.
A classic of it’s genre!
May 21, 1974
88 minutes Color
Maybe as close to a perfect exploitation movie as we can get, this flick doesn’t wink or nod at the audience, it punches it right across the face.
There are no good guys, only the bad, and those that get in the way of the bad. Part way through the movie you can just sort of tell that NO ONE is going to get through this in one piece.
Even Miki Sugimoto, the Zero Woman Cop sent to rescue a politician’s daughter from some nut cases, manages to simply outlast everyone else. She takes plenty of abuse along the way, some of it hard to watch… and yet you can’t help but watch.
Eiji Go is a psycho here, with Tetsuro Tanba as the ice cold Politician who’s daughter has been kidnapped.
A classic of it’s genre!
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