
Criminal Woman: Killing Melody (1973)
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.
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Additional Info
Budget | $0.00 |
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Revenue | $0.00 |
Original Language | ja |
Popularity | 0.3198 |
Directed By
Atsushi Mihori
Crew
Kineo Yoshimine
Masahiko Iimura
Yozo Uchida
Kenji Takamura
Mitsuo Katô
Kazuo Iriba
Shiro Kuwana
Hiroshi Kitagawa
Fumio Soda
Shinichi Hashimoto
Masao Yagi
Atsushi Mihori
Hiro Matsuda
Fumio Kōnami
TOP CAST

Reiko Ike
Maki

Miki Sugimoto
Massayo

Yumiko Katayama
Kaoru

Chiyoko Kazama
Natsuko

Ryōji Hayama
Boss Oba

Takeo Chii
Tetsu Hamayasu