Criminal Woman: Killing Melody
1973
83 minutes
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.
Top Cast
Reiko Ike
Maki
Miki Sugimoto
Massayo
Yumiko Katayama
Kaoru
Chiyoko Kazama
Natsuko
Masami Sôda
Ryōji Hayama
Boss Oba
Shinzō Hotta
Seiya Satō
Keiichi Kitagawa
Tooru Hanada
Bontarō Miake
Takeo Chii
Tetsu Hamayasu
Hiroshi Date
Hirohisa Nakata
Naoyuki Sugano
Tōru Yuri
Takashi Takano
Tatsuya Kameyama
