Meet Ocho, a gambler and pickpocket in Meiji Era Tokyo. Her everyday scams end when she shelters a young fleeing anarchist and accidentally meets her father's murderers. Ocho unleashes hell on the Yakuza, employing her body and her excellent swordsmanship!
This is a true milestone in the Pinku Eiga film genre and a reminder of what Japanese can achieve with a camera! Noribumi Suzuki , a known Pinku director, gives us a true Japanese film - katanas, Yakuza , poetic nudity , snow and revenge in the shinkendo manner! Films like these was probably the reason humans invented cinema, no words just moving pictures of magnificent beauty.
Reiko Ike plays a role she was born to play! Her body (most of the time nude) moves so artistically in the choreography that this movie suggests. A big plus is the slow motion in the fight scenes where she can really unfold her talent. Christina Lindberg co-star here and plays her classic sweet-young-thing role she is so good at. They really make a good duo of beauty and badassness. And yes, this is the film that is used as an inspirational base for Tarantino's Kill Bill. You will understand this when you get to the final fight scenes.
Must watch this : with a bowl of good sake and cheap chinese take-out!
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070085/
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| Period strikes back! |
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