Criminal Woman: Killing Melody

Criminal Woman: Killing Melody (1973)

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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.

Director: Atsushi Mihori
Writers: Hirō Matsuda, Fumio Kōnami.

Casts

	Reiko Ike as Maki
	Miki Sugimoto as Massayo
	Yumiko Katayama as Kaoru
	Chiyoko Kazama as Natsuko
	Masami Sôda as
	Ryōji Hayama as Boss Oba
	Shinzō Hotta as
	Seiya Satō as
	Keiichi Kitagawa as
	Tōru Hanada as
	Bontarō Miake as
	Takeo Chii as Tetsu Hamayasu
	Hiroshi Date as
	Hirohisa Nakata as
	Naoyuki Sugano as
	Tōru Yuri as
	Takashi Takano as
	Tatsuya Kameyama as
	Hōsei Komatsu as

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