Sex and Fury

I watched a movie and it was called Sex and Fury, translated Story of Delinquent Female Boss: o-Chō Inoshika (不良姐御伝 猪の鹿お蝶 Furyō anego den: Inoshika o-Chō?), directed by Norifumi Suzuki , released 1973.  It stars Reiko Ike and an American Christina Lindberg.  The story is that a little girl’s father is murdered by two thugs and one of them drops these little cards with characters on them as they struggle to get a briefcase from the dying man. The girl grows up and becomes a thief, in an effort to find the men who killed her father. Will she find those men? This is an action-thriller but it is also a Japanese sexploitation film. There are many elements that Tarantino likely lifted to put into Kill Bill movies, woman out for revenge, swordfight in the snow, gushing blood, though to be fair that is a Japanese movie convention so he didn’t lift that entirely. The music is well done, very 1970’s, much like you might expect from this ear of Japanese movies. Reiko Ike is very attractive and certainly not shy when it comes to the nude scenes that she does. I admit however, she isnt doing anything particularly sexy, she is either killing people and getting sprayed with cheap red blood or well, pretty much that is the only time she is naked in this movie. Christina Lindberg plays a role in this too as a gambler and surprisingly, she speaks English. It is kind of comical because the Japanese subtitles take up the lower half of the screen but later on she speaks Japanese. Kind of weird but not too uncommon I suppose. All her parts are quite sensual though in context of the scenes, it can be off putting. 

The movie itself is pretty good, basic plot but has a few twists and turns to it because it gets deeper than just a simple murder. This is the first Japanese sexploitation movie I have seen and I only looked for it because I saw a gif that looked pretty intense. It can get a bit boring in some parts but that might’ve been just me. The shots were all well done, very nice close ups of eyes and lots of interesting set ups to for the fight scenes. Some of them were a bit too close quarters for me though that might be the intention of the filmmaker to show how claustrophobic sword fighting a large group of men can be.
I would recommend this though be aware that is full of sex and fury, it isnt just a clever translation.