The Great Chase

The Great Chase (1975)

Action

Shihomi Etsuko plays a race car driver who also lends out her services to the Japanese Secret Service. Although there really isn't much of a "chase" to be seen, Shihomi does pursue a cartel of drug runners and assorted Japanese yakuza types. While the story is pure 70's exploitation and gritty crime drama, the best reason to see it is for the Martial Arts Action of Etsuko Shihomi. The action is over-the-top and at times hilarious (i.e. Shihomi battling the lead criminal atop a moving gondola or Shihomi battling a whip-wielding Catholic Nun).

Director: Norifumi Suzuki
Writers: Masahiro Kakefuda, Takeo Kaneko.

Casts

	Etsuko Shihomi as Shinobu Yashiro
	Mach Fumiake as Mach Fumiake
	Eiji Gō as Isao Shirosaki
	Masashi Ishibashi as Yosuke Onozawa
	Rieko Maruyama as Mayumi Sugano
	Yōichi Numata as Giichi Motoyashiki
	Shōhei Yamamoto as Henry Nakatani
	Rikiya Yasuoka as Shudou
	Torahiko Hamada as Masayuki Yashiro
	Hisako Tanaka as Yukiko Shoda
	Riki Harada as Akaiwa
	Takashi Hio as Razor Joe
	Fujika Omori as Nagiko Aoki
	Seiya Satō as Jimmy Tokigawa
	Naoyuki Sugano as Shinpei Aoki
	Tsuyoshi Yokoyama as Kaima
	Iwao Dan as Domeki
	Jill Bryson as Barbara
	Tatsuya Kameyama as Kito
	Teruo Shimizu as Nishida
	Haruki Jo as
	Tooru Hanada as Roulette Dealer
	Chū Takatsuki as
	Shigeru Yokoyama as
	Takeshige Hatanaka as
	Keiko Itō as Ayako Yashiro
	Mieko Muramatsu as Nun
	Bun'ei Shō as Nun
	Kaoru Endō as Flower Girl
	Paul Fujisawa as
	Hisako Oka as
	Bin Amatsu as Takeo Inomata
	Tōru Yuri as Mach Bunkichi
	Fumio Watanabe as Hayato Maejima
	Shunsuke Kariya as Thunder (uncredited)

Crew