Sins of Sister Lucia

Sins of Sister Lucia (1978)
Director: Koyu Ohara
Starring: Yuki Nohira, Rumi Tama, Tamaki Katsura, Rei Okamoto
Rating: 5/5

"Rumiko is a very naughty girl. After seducing her English teacher and stabbing one of her father's hoodlum pals, she is sent to a convent to be put back onto the straight and narrow. Bad mistake. The convent turns out to be a hot bed (literally) of deviant sexual practices. Spanking, strange bondage games, and lesbian canoodling are the holy orders for these naked nuns."

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Girl Boss Guerilla

Girl Boss Guerilla (1972)
Director: Norifumi Suzuki
Starring: Miki Sugimoto, Reiko Ike
Personal Rating: 5/5

"Miki Sugimoto is the leader of the Red Helmet Gang, a biker girl gang from Shinjuku who wind up in Kyoto and make a bid to take over the local girl gangs there. Successful for a short time in ruling the streets it isn't long before Miko and her crew run afoul of the local Yakuza, and are forced to turn to Reiko Ike, a ronin Yakuza girl, and sister to one of the top Yakuza in Kyoto, for help, leading to a murderous showdown at a small coastal resort."

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The Watcher In The Attic

The Watcher In The Attic (1976)
Director: Noboru Tanaka
Starring: Junko Miyashita, Renji Ishibashi
Personal Rating: 3/5

"The film is set in 1923 in a cheap Tokyo boarding house. A bored tenant, Goda, roams through the attic, observing the weird lives of his fellow lodgers through holes in the ceiling. One day he sees a mysterious woman murder her lover. He decides that at last he has found his soul mate. But to be worthy of her, he too must perform a meaningless act of violence."

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Assault! Jack The Ripper

Assault! Jack The Ripper (1976)
Director: Yasuharu Hasebe
Starring: Yoko Azusa, Yutaka Hayashi
Personal Rating: 4/5

"A surly waitress and an introverted pastry cook meet at the restaurant where they both work. The waitress persuades the man to give her a ride home. In the torrential rain, they accidentally run over a female hitch hiker. The waitress finds that the sight of blood on the dead girl's body turns her on and she makes violent love to the man. Having discovered that death and bloodshed are their mutual aphrodisiacs, the pair embark on a rampage of murder and mutilation. Soon the violence escalates until it seems that nothing can stop them."

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Female Prisoner #701 Scorpion: Beast Stable

Female Prisoner #701 Scorpion: Beast Stable (1973)
Director: Shunya Ito
Starring: Meiko Kaji, Reisen Lee, Yayoi Watanabe
Personal Rating: 5/5

"Meiko Kaji returns as Nami, the female prisoner Scorpion, in the third and most outrageous entry of the classic Japanese exploitation series. Having escaped from prison, Nami is on the run, slicing and dicing anyone who stands in her way. With the help of a prostitute, Nami makes attempts at a normal life. But when Nami murders a pimp, she finds herself kidnapped and tortured by the vengeful leader of the prostitution ring. And then, all hell breaks loose."

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Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
Director: Shunya Ito
Starring: Meiko Kaji, Kayoko Shiraishi
Personal Rating: 4/5

"Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 is the second in a series of films about Matsu (known to her fellow inmates as "Scorpion"), a diminutive but volatile woman who is wrongly sent to prison by a betraying boyfriend."

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Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972)
Director: Shunya Ito
Starring: Meiko Kaji, Yayoi Watanabe, Rie Yokoyama
Personal Rating: 5/5

"Scorpion is a woman who was set up and wrongfully imprisoned. Hell-bent on getting revenge, she must survive the treachery of imprisonment and the wickedness of an evil warden before she can complete her vengeance outside of the prison walls."

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Legend of the Eight Samurai

Legend of the Eight Samurai (1983)
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Starring: Hiroko Yakushimaru, Hiroyuki Sanada, Etsuko Shihomi, Sonny Chiba
Personal Rating: 3.5/5

"The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess Shizu (Hiroko Yakushimaru). In the process of trying to capture her, the clan murders her entire family, but Princess Shizu escapes their clutches. She enlists the aid of eight samurai warriors, possessors of powerful magic crystals, led by Dosetsu to help rescue the remaining members of her court and revenge her family. Along the way, they must fight undead warriors, evil spirits, poisonous beauties and a giant centipede."

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Criminal Woman: Killing Melody

Criminal Woman: Killing Melody (1973)
Director: Atsushi Mihori
Starring: Reiko Ike, Miki Sugimoto
Personal Rating: 5/5

"Reiko Ike stars as Maki, 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 Maki 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 and meets the Yakuza boss's girlfriend (Miki Sugimoto). Upon release Maki 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 Maki works her way closer to her ultimate vengeance."

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Junk

Junk (1999)
Director: Atsushi Muroga
Starring: Kaori Shimamura, Yuji Kishimoto
Personal Rating: 2.5/5

"A gang of thieves are on the run after a successful heist. They make a deal with the local yakuza to sell their stolen jewels at an abandoned army base. Little do they know the government has been experimenting on the dead. The dead rise and it's an all out war between the thieves, yakuza and the army, in a desperate attempt to not only stop the zombies but to stay alive."

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Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless To Confess

Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless To Confess (1971)
Director: Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Starring: Reiko Oshida
Personal Rating: 5/5

"This was the final entry in the Zubeko Bancho series, with sexy-and-sweet Reiko Oshida heading up a cast of gangster-girl wannabes in a go-go dancing maelstrom of Japanese music, fashion and kitsch. Truly a film that defies description, but imagine a Jack Hill production of Hair with an unsupervised Riot Girl cast, and you're starting to get the picture. The result is a delicious example of Japanese pop culture in high transition from the groovy '60s to the dangerous '70s."

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Blind Woman's Curse

Blind Woman's Curse (1970)
Director: Teruo Ishii
Starring: Meiko Kaji
Personal Rating: 4.5/5

"This variation on the Japanese "yakuza" (organized crime) genre focuses on a female yakuza leader in turn-of-the-century Japan. During a fight with a rival gang, she accidentally blinds a woman from another clan. The guilt she feels over this incident starts to affect her psychologically, leading her to question her commitment to the yakuza lifestyle."-© Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide

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Madame O

Madame O (1967)
Director: Seiichi Fukuda
Starring: Michiko Aoyama
Personal Rating: 3.5/5

"At the tender age of sixteen, Seiko (Michiko Aoyama) was sexually abused by three men. This horrifying attack scarred her mentally and resulted in her getting pregnant and infected with syphilis. Now a well-respected doctor in Japan, she practices medicine by day and prowls the city streets at night in search of lovers. Possessing a raging desire for revenge against man, she destroys them with the one weapon they cannot resist...sex! Finally marrying and settling down, Saeko’s life changes for the better. But, her new husband (Akihiko Kaminara) may have a dark secret of his own."

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Hanzo The Razor: Sword Of Justice

Hanzo The Razor: Sword Of Justice (1972)
Director: Kenji Misumi
Starring: Shintaro Katsu
Personal Rating: 5/5

"The first film in the notorious Razor trilogy introduces Hanzo Itami (Shintaro Katsu), a renegade samurai cop whose investigative methods are only slightly more extreme than his sexual prowess. His refusal to sign a constabulary oath that his code of honor cannot accept puts him on a collision course with his corrupt superior and on the case of the Shogunate. With the loyal assistance of two former criminals, Hanzo defies orders, takes on all comers, and leaves female suspects begging for more. Great samurai action, geysers of blood, and graphic sexual content make Sword of Justice one of the most outrageous outlaws of samurai cinema."

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The Machine Girl

The Machine Girl (2008)
Director: Noboru Iguchi
Starring: Minase Yashiro
Personal Rating: 5/5

"A teenage girl shows the mob who's boss in this over-the-top blend of action, horror, and comedy. Ami (Minase Yashiro) is a seemingly ordinary Japanese schoolgirl who refuses to turn a blind eye when thugs at her school subject her little brother to needless cruelty. Ami retaliates against the vicious kids and their folks, which turns out to be a dangerous decision when she discovers some of them are connected to local gangsters. Ami is kidnapped by strong-arm men whose intimidation tactics include cutting off one of her arms, but Ami refuses to let the criminals go unpunished. With the help of a mechanic sympathetic to her cause, Ami's arm is replaced with a high-caliber machine gun, and she is transformed into a single-minded killing machine in a school uniform."-© Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight

Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight (1973)
Director: Teruo Ishii
Starring: Tetsuro Tamba
Personal Rating: 5/5

"Horrors of Malformed Men and Blind Woman's Curse director Teruo Ishii shifts his focus from tormented mutants to sword-swinging samurais with this outrageous, blood-spattered adaptation of an original manga by Lone Wolf and Cub creator Kazuo Koike. Tetsuro Tanba (Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs) stars as a hardened mercenary swordsman who becomes hopelessly caught between a gang of privileged samurais charged with recruiting prostitutes to work in old Edo's pleasure quarter, the barbaric Shogunate, and the rival gangs locked into a violent struggle for power."-© Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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Female Demon Ohyaku

Female Demon Ohyaku (1968)
Director: Yoshihiro Ishikawa
Starring: Junko Miyazono
Personal Rating: 4.5/5

"The Legend of the Poisonous Seductress" saga begins with this bloody tale of an actress who seeks vengeance against her tormentors after being wrongly imprisoned. Ohyaku (Junko Miyazono) was just an innocent actress when she was accused of a crime that she didn't commit. Subsequently thrown into prison and brutalized by her fellow inmates at every turn, the once fragile girl is gradually transformed into a sword-wielding warrior whose back is adorned with a maniacal demon. Now, her blade clenched firmly in clinched fists, Ohyaku sets out on a violent quest to cut down anyone and everyone who ever dared cross her."-© Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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Sex & Fury

Sex & Fury (1973)
Director: Norifumi Suzuki
Starring: Reiko Ike
Personal Rating: 5/5

"This was the first of two films in which Japanese exploitation star Reiko Ike played the character of Inoshika Ocho. After a brief prologue depicting the murder of Ocho's policeman father, it is revealed that she has grown up to become a professional gambler. Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shonusuke (Masataka Naruse), a radical set on murdering prominent politician Kurokawa (Seizaburo Kawazu) and Christina (Christina Lindberg), an American spy posing as a gambler. The various storylines frequently intersect, prompting a dizzying array of plot twists, overheated sex scenes, and gory swordplay. The pulp-heavy storyline is skillfully directed by Norifumi Suzuki, a veteran director of commercial Japanese fare who pumped up such sexy, violent spectacles with surrealistic visual flourishes and stylized sets and costumes. Sex & Fury was followed by Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition and Torture, a sequel helmed by another Japanese exploitation film legend, Teruo Ishii."-© Donald Guarisco, All Movie Guide

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School of the Holy Beast

School of the Holy Beast (1974)
Director: Norifumi Suzuki
Starring: Yumi Takigawa
Personal Rating: 4.5/5

"A young Japanese woman in search of her missing mother discovers a sinister secret deep within the Sacred Heart Convent in director Norifumi Suzuki's notorious nunsploitation classic. After taking religious vows to gain entry into the convent where her mother was last seen, Maya (Yumi Takigawa) descends into a hedonistic world where sinful archbishops and whip-wielding nuns torment her in the most unholy manner imaginable."-© Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs

Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974)
Director: Yukio Noda
Starring: Miki Sugimoto
Personal Rating: 5/5

"Based on a manga by Toru Shinohara, the Zero Woman series was a popular Japanese exploitation franchise of the 1970s, and it holds up strikingly well today. RED HANDCUFFS begins with female cop Rei (Miki Sugimoto), otherwise known as Agent Zero, seducing a Westerner who has been killing women with his sadistic sexual fetishes. Once she gets him back to the hotel room, however, she metes out her own brand of justice, of which her fellow cops do not approve, and Rei promptly lands in jail. Elsewhere, the maniacal criminal Nagumo (Tetsuro Tamba) is being let out of prison, and it isn't long before his brutal celebration leads to the kidnapping of an important politician's daughter. Charged with retrieving the girl without the media's knowledge, the police turn the job over to Rei. What follows is a melee of violence, sex, and violent sex, as Rei coolly does what it takes to get the job done."

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