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Release Date:
October 27, 1973
Original Title:
前科おんな殺し節
Alternate Titles:
Vendetta
Zenka onna: koroshi-bushi
Genres:
Action | Crime
Production Companies:
Toei Company
Production Countries:
Japan
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 83
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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Assistant Director:
Shinichi Hashimoto
Cinematography:
Masahiko Iimura
Director:
Atsushi Mihori
Editor:
Fumio Soda
Executive Producer:
Kineo Yoshimine
Lighting Technician:
Shiro Kuwana
Original Music Composer:
Masao Yagi
Production Coordinator:
Kenji Takamura
Production Design:
Hiroshi Kitagawa
Production Manager:
Kazuo Iriba
Screenplay:
Hiro Matsuda
Fumio Kōnami
Sound:
Yozo Uchida
Still Photographer:
Mitsuo Katô
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