A Bizarre and entertaining hybrid of Yakuza film, Jidai-Geki (swordplay, usually with Samurai in historic times)
and Kaidan (horror) with cult actress Meiko Kaji in her first lead role, and on the DVD sleeve she can be seen
as the tattooed (dragon head/Rising Dragon) Yakuza Clan leader Akemi who suddenly is challenged by not
just a rivalling gangster gang but also by a mystical blind swordswoman (Hoki Tokuda) and her hunchbacked
underling, a woman working as a knife thrower at a horror cabinet. Bloody for it's time.


The Director Teruo Ishii was one of the Japanese film industry's most delightfully wild innovators and loose
cannons, and an important source of inspiration for another wild outsider of japanese film - Takashi Miike.

Meiko Kaji (Masako Ota born in 1947) is a film and TV actress and a singer and something of the ultimate
cultmovie actress. She debuted in 1965 at Nikkatsu studios and in 1970-1971 she exploded unto the Movie
scene with the 4 "Stray Cat Rock (Nora neko rokku) movies about violence between criminal Youth gangs.

She also acted in Teruo Ishii's wild and unhinged Horror-Yakuza "Blind Woman's Curse", and in 1972-1973
she became a Cult Movie immortal by acting in 4 (four) films as the Lethal female Avenger Matsu Sasari or
Female Convict Scorpion after Manga by Toru Shinohara. In this film she sings Urami Bushi Song of Hate).

In 1973 it was time yet again to play the role as a Female Avenger, now as the Swordswoman Yuki in the
politically subversive and anti-fascistic Lady Snowblood (Shura Yukihime), with sequel Lady Snowblood:
Love Song of Vengeance in 1974. She sang "Shura no hana (Flower of Carnage" in the film, a song that the
Meiko Kaji Fan Quentin Tarantino then used in his Kill Bill film.

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In Swedish below:

Meiko Kaji (ursprungligen Masako Ota) startade filmkarriären i småroller 1965 och fick första huvudrollen
1970 i Kaidan Nobori Ryo (Blind Woman's Curse), sen följde roller som ungdomsbrottsling i den populära
Stray Cat Rock serien (sk sukeban), som tystlåten hämnare och fånge i 4 av Female Prisoner Scorpion serien
samt som svärdskvinna i de två Lady Snowblood filmerna.
Kaiji sjöng ofta temalåtarna i sina filmer och beundraren Quentin Tarantino använde t ex hennes "Shura No
Hana (Flower of Carnage)" och "Urami Bushi (Song of Hate)" i sin Kill Bill, Vol. 1. I denna film sjunger hon
också en av låtarna. Hon har sen 80-talet mest arbetat inom televisionen.