Criminal Woman: Killing Melody

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

October 27, 1973

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

Toei Company

Cast

Takashi Takano,Takeo Chii,Hōsei Komatsu,Tōru Yuri,Hiroshi Date,Keiichi Kitagawa,Tatsuya Kameyama,Masami Sôda,Ryōji Hayama,Reiko Ikeand 9 more

Director

Atsushi Mihori

Writer

Fumio Kōnami,Hirō Matsuda

Producer

Kineo Yoshimine

Cinematography

Masahiko Iimura

Music

Masao Yagi

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0451984