

Criminal Woman: Killing Melody
1973 Directed by Atsushi MihoriReiko 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.

Reiko Ike
....................................................Maki

Miki Sugimoto
....................................................Massayo

Yumiko Katayama
....................................................Kaoru

Chiyoko Kazama
....................................................Natsuko
Masami Sôda
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Ryōji Hayama
....................................................Boss Oba

Shinzō Hotta
....................................................Director
...........................................................Atsushi Mihori
Executive Producer
...........................................................Kineo Yoshimine
Assistant Director
...........................................................Shinichi Hashimoto
Cinematography
...........................................................Masahiko Iimura
Sound
...........................................................Yozo Uchida
Production Coordinator
...........................................................Kenji Takamura
Still Photographer
...........................................................Mitsuo Katô
Production Companies
...................................................Toei Company
Production Countries
........................................................Japan
Spoken Languages
....................................................日本語
Genres
....................................................Action
Crime
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