Criminal Woman: Killing Melody

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Criminal Woman: Killing Melody (1973)

Directed by Atsushi Mihori

Action, Crime · 1h 23m

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.

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Cast

Crew

Director
Atsushi Mihori
Screenplay
Hirō Matsuda, Fumio Kōnami
Director of Photography
Masahiko Iimura
Original Music Composer
Masao Yagi
Editor
Fumio Soda

Details

Original title
前科おんな殺し節
Release date
1973-10-27
Runtime
1h 23m
Genres
Action, Crime
Original language
JA
Spoken languages
Japanese
Countries
Japan
Production
Toei Company