Bôkô Kirisaki Jakku
Yasuharu Hasebe
Japan
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Flower & Snake ’74
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Masaru Konuma
Naomi Tani, Nagatoshi Sakamoto, Hijiri Abe, Willie Dorsey, Hiroko Fuji, Yasuhiko Ishizu, Hiroyuki Mikawa, Toshihiko Oda, Haruhiko Sugawara, Akira Takahashi, Kôji Yashiro, Setsuko Ôyama
Japan
Another eye-opener from Nikkatsu.
Having just seen and enjoyed Takashi Ishii’s outrageously raunchy 2005 Flower and Snake 2, based on a cult S&M novel by Oniroku Dan, I was quite keen to watch the film that preceded it, primarily to see some more of gorgeous star Aya Sugimoto; however, being rather confused about the whole history of the Flower and Snake series, I ended up watching this 70s Nikkatsu film instead. As it happens, I wasn’t too disappointed with my mistake: not only is this one an impressively jaw-dropping piece of classic Japanese sleaze, but it also introduced me to the delightful Naomi Tani, who is every bit as stunning as Sugimoto.
Tani plays Shizuko, the beautiful wife of ageing businessman Senzô Tôyama (Nagatoshi Sakamoto), who is reluctant to satisfy her perverted spouse’s sexual demands, having been sold to him by her lover. Disatisfied with Shizuko’s behaviour, Senzô convinces one of his employees, Makoto Katagiri (Yasuhiko Ishizu) to abduct his wife, break her pride, and train her to become an obedient sex slave. Makoto is only too happy to oblige—even more-so when he discovers that the lovely lady is able to cure his impotence, which was caused by a disturbing childhood incidence involving his mother and a big, black G.I.
Whereas Ishii’s film was purely designed to be as erotic as possible, this earlier version of Oniroku Dan’s novel is just as much about delivering the utterly depraved as it is intended to arouse. Amongst all of the S&M rope-trickery that is standard for such fare, this one also offers up such eye-opening stuff as a fumble in a flower bed involving the use of caterpillars, an incredibly tasteless forced enema (the effluence captured in a plastic bag), some strangeness involving a foul muck designed to irritate Shizuko’s snatch, and Makoto’s mad mother reenacting the traumatic event from his childhood so as to once again make her son impotent.
Batoru Rowaiaru
42 Students, Three Days, One Survivor, No Rules.
Kinji Fukasaku
Japan
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Masahito Segawa
Ran Masaki,
Japan
After a politician’s daughter is kidnapped by a ruthless gang, a brutal policewoman is released from jail and sent after them.
Zeroka no onna: Akai wappa
Der Tiger von Osaka – West Germany
Yukio Noda
Miki Sugimoto, Eiji Gô, Tetsurô Tanba, Hideo Murota, Yôko Mihara
Japan
From IMDb:
One of the biggest accomplishment in Japanese exploitation cinema
When you discover Japanese exploitation cinema, it can give you headaches, cause there’s so much of it, and people who love it tend to consider every piece of crap as a masterpiece, so its’ really confusing. Its’ hard to go into it. Nobody wrote a complete history of Japanese exploitation masterpieces, most of them are simple lists of hundreds of movies. Surely Female Scorpion 1, Stray Cat Rock 3, Criminal Woman and every Seijun Suzuki movies are at the center core of it, but i’m no specialist. And Red Hancuffs was perhaps the one that really convinced me even more than the others. Cause of its pure graphics (red upon green upon black upon red), and cause of its pure violence, which is less gratuitous than in other, ore included in the narration, more believable, and less grotesque than in Norifumi Suzuki’s movies. Editing is as experimental as in other Japanese movies of the time : sometimes the sound disappears, sometimes it comes back, you got zooms and jump cuts and rotating cameras, but in the same time, you got also a true story that, despite its chaotic aspect, is quite good and nihilistic. Part of the anti-American thing is a little bit boring, but the movie is so graphic, so full of energy, so original, so beautiful and the music so brilliant that we have to consider this as a masterpiece. And Miki Sugimoto, who’s playing a very blasé and cold femme fatale, is playing here what might be her best role.
Reiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local Yakuza mob. Having outlived his usefulness to the gang he is murdered and Reiko is gang raped, leading her to attempt a knife attack on the Yakuza boss (Ryoji Hayama) at a swank nightclub. Failing to kill him she ends up in prison, where she befriends a crew of other malcontents (including Yumiko Katayama and Chiyoko Kazama) and meets the Yakuza boss’s girlfriend (Miki Sugimoto). Upon release Reiko reassembles her mob and launches a Machiavellian scheme to engineer a gang war between Hayama’s Oba Industries and the formerly dominant Hamayasu Clan. The rival gangs begin killing each other off and Reiko works her way closer to her ultimate vengeance.
Atsushi Mihori
Reiko Ike, Yumiko Katayama, Chiyoko Kazama, Masami Sôda, Miki Sugimoto,
Japan
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Yasagure anego den: sôkatsu rinchi (original title)
Story of a Wild Elder Sister: Widespread Lynch Law” – International (English title) (literal English title)
Teruo Ishii
Reiko Ike, Makoto Ashikawa, Arumi Kuri, Meika Seri, Jun Midorikawa,
Japan
Three new students at a super-strict girl’s school must face off with a repressive school administration, the sadistic, murderous student discipline brigade and corrupt politicians over the murder/suicide of one of their friends. They’re approached by a blackmailer (Tsunehiko Watase) who promises to help them exact vengeance in exchange for setting up a corrupt local politician, and aided by a independent Yakuza biker chick (Reiko Ike).
Kyôfu joshikôkô: bôkô rinchi kyôshitsu
Noribumi Suzuki
Miki Sugimoto, Reiko Ike, Seiko Saburi, Misuzu Oota, Rie Saotome,
Japan
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Reiko Ike stars as Ocho, a gambler and pickpocket in Meiji Era Tokyo. After sheltering a fleeing anarchist, Ocho runs into the three gangsters responsible for her father’s murder, and runs afoul of various yakuza who want her dead. A European spy, played by Christina Lindberg, arrives on the scene and complicates matters.
The Biography of the Woman Boss of Bad Girls…
Furyô anego den: Inoshika Ochô
Elder Sister: Ochô Inoshika – International (English title) (literal title)
Story of a Depraved Elder Sister: Ocho, a Deer Amongst Wild Boars – International (English title) (alternative title)
Noribumi Suzuki
Reiko Ike, Akemi Negishi, Ryôko Ema, Yôko Hori, Naomi Oka,
Japan
After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi (Natsuyagi Isao), a conniving and crooked detective she had whole-heartedly fallen in love with (and subsequently lost her virginity to…), Matsushima Nami’s desire for revenge knows no bounds. Her failed attempt at stabbing Sugimi on the steps of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Headquarters results in her doing hard time in a female prison run by sadistic and horny male guards. To Sugimi’s surprise, Matsushima refuses to testify against him and his connections to the mob, and now the sheer fact that she knows such secrets makes her a liability. So Sugimi and the Japanese mafia orchestrate a plan whereby Matsushima will succumb to an accidental death in prison. They enlist the help of Kagiri, another female inmate with ties to both Sugimi and the mafia, thus their formidable plan is quickly set in motion. Little do they realize, however, how hotly Matsushima’s desire for revenge burns within her.
Shunya Ito
Meiko Kaji, Rie Yokoyama, Isao Natsuyagi, Fumio Watanabe, Yayoi Watanabe,
Japan
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