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Criminal Woman: Killing Melody (1973)
Directed by Atsushi Mihori
Overview
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.
Length 83 minutes
Actors
Reiko Ike | Miki Sugimoto | Yumiko Katayama | Chiyoko Kazama | Masami Sôda | Ryôji Hayama | Shinzô Hotta | Seiya Satô | Keiichi Kitagawa | Tooru Hanada | Bontarô Miake | Takeo Chii | Hiroshi Date | Hirohisa Nakata | Naoyuki Sugano | Toru Yuri | Takashi Takano | Tatsuya Kameyama | Hôsei Komatsu