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Rope and Skin (1979)
Directed by Shōgorō Nishimura
Drama · 1h 10m
Okoma (Red Cherry) was a woman gambler until she retired from the yakuza world. Two years later, she returns home, and finds that the big boss has been assassinated and his daughter is having trouble keeping things in line against the rival gang headed by the men who killed her father. Okoma decides to avenge her former boss and help his daughter, a former friend of hers. She recruits her own gang, starting with an expert knife-fighter, her former lover. After a fight, the new Gang Leader captures and tortures Okoma sadistically.
Cast
Naomi Tani
Hitoshi Takagi
Shōhei Yamamoto
Yuri Yamashina
Junko Miyashita
Crew
- Director
- Shōgorō Nishimura
- Screenplay
- Isao Matsumoto
- Novel
- Oniroku Dan
Details
- Original title
- 団鬼六 縄と肌
- Release date
- 1979-07-21
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Nikkatsu Corporation