Film

Criminal Woman: Killing Melody

1973 · 1h 23m · Action · Crime

IMDb

6.9

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.

Reiko Ike

Maki

Miki Sugimoto

Massayo

Yumiko Katayama

Kaoru

Chiyoko Kazama

Natsuko

Masami Sôda

Ryōji Hayama

Boss Oba

Shinzō Hotta

Seiya Satō

Keiichi Kitagawa

Tōru Hanada

Bontarō Miake

Takeo Chii

Tetsu Hamayasu

Hiroshi Date

Hirohisa Nakata

Naoyuki Sugano

Tōru Yuri

• Atsushi MihoriDirector
• Hirō MatsudaScreenplay
• Fumio KōnamiScreenplay
• Kineo YoshimineExecutive Producer
• Masahiko IimuraDirector of Photography
• Masao YagiOriginal Music Composer
• Fumio SodaEditor

Criminal Woman: Killing Melody (1973) Japanese Language Trailer

Release date

October 27, 1973

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 23m

Genres

Action, Crime