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Criminal Woman: Killing Melody

65 %|Oct 27, 1973|Action, Crime

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.

Featured Crew

Atsushi Mihori
Director
Fumio Kōnami
Screenplay
Hiro Matsuda
Screenplay
Kenji Takamura
Production Coordinator
Kineo Yoshimine
Executive Producer
Masao Yagi
Original Music Composer
Masahiko Iimura
Cinematography
Fumio Soda
Editor