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Female Yakuza Tale - Inquisition and Torture | 
 enlarge | Directors: Arumi Kuri, Teruo Ishii
Actors: Reiko Ike, Arumi Kuri, Meika Seri, Jun Midorikawa, Emi Jo
Studio: Panik House Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 45251
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Original Recording Remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: Japanese (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 86 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 0.7
MPN: 883164100492
UPC: 883164100492
EAN: 0883164100492
ASIN: B000AQKUWW
Theatrical Release Date: 1973
Release Date: September 27, 2005
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: FEMALE YAKUZA TALE
Title: FEMALE YAKUZA TALE
Street Release Date: 09/27/2005
Domestic
Genre: ACTION / ADVENTURE
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If you want to know where Quentin Tarantino got some of his inspiration for Kill Bill, check out Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition and Torture, a spicy slice of Japanese sexploitation from 1973. It's a brazenly unrestrained sequel to Norifumi Suzuki's similarly trashy Sex & Fury (another cult favorite among fans of Japanese pulp cinema), and director Teruo Ishii demonstrates his disdain for sequels by dishing up a lurid crime tale filled with rampant sex, female nudity, and blood-spurting ultraviolence. Set in Meiji-era Tokyo circa 1905, the outlandish story kicks into high gear when renegade thief and gambler Ocho (Reiko Ike, fully recovered from the bloodbath in Sex & Fury) is joined by a "lone wolf" drifter (Ryohei Uchida) in pursuit of a gang of murderous thugs with connections to the gruesome "crotch gouge" murders (involving deadly injuries that are best left to the imagination). By the time they close in on a disgusting kingpin who's been enslaving prostitutes to smuggle Chinese heroin in their nether regions, Ocho has recruited a small army of sexy, sword-wielding hookers who aren't feeling the least bit merciful. The result is an outrageous orgy of boobs, bullets, and bloodshed, carried out with abundant humor, chaotic choreography, and dazzling use of colorful low-budget settings. Befitting such a delirious dose of sexplo-trash, this high-quality, beautifully mastered DVD release caters to its intended audience with an authoritative audio commentary by Chris Desjardins (author of Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film), whose expert programming of this and other "Pinky Violence" films (at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles) resulted in a renewed appreciation for mind-blowing Asian action films that are defiantly off the beaten path. High-minded prudes and the weak-of-heart are advised to stay away! --Jeff Shannon
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 Great vide February 16, 2008
David Kaplan (Florida, USA)
I enjoyed this video. It's what it appeared to be. A Yakuza tale with females as the stars instead of men... Some nudity, well prehaps a bit more than some...
 Just as bad as "Sex & Fury" October 13, 2007
D. Brown (Oakland, CA United States)
This is the sequel to "Sex & Fury" starring Ike Reiko. The plot revolves around "crotch gouging," drug smugglers using women's orifices to smuggle dope. The story is a bit better than the over-hyped "Sex & Fury" but lacks swordplay. Here's the major defects of Reiko's films: she can't wield a blade for her life! Her subsequent films where she does not use swords are more convincing (i.e., hand to hand combat or guns). There is even a character in this film who dons a hat similar to that of Kaji Meiko in the Scorpion series. She even looks like Meiko.Sexwise, there's a lot more nudity, but that's about it. One major gripe with this Panik House release is that they decided to package it in a clear plastic sleeve which gets rumpled when shrinkwrapped. It also comes with a nice clear sticker (like those you would put on a car) as opposed to the paper stickers included in the Pinky Violence collection and "Sex and Fury."
Pretty Bad Even for a Pink Film September 1, 2007
Michael Ward (Athens, Georgia)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Almost two years ago I watched Suzuki Norifumi's film Sex and Fury and while the film was far from being a great movie, it was a fun film because of its over the top action sequences and pumping psychedelic rock soundtrack. There were also quite a few scenes of nudity, especially with the film's female protagonist Ike Reiko, but, for the most part, they fit into the film and did not seem overly gratuitous. Also, the inclusion of Swedish sex film starlet Christina Lindberg was also a nice added touch. Unfortunately the second and final film in the series Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition and Torture pales in comparison to its predecessor.
Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition and Torture opening pretty much sets the standard for the entire film when our heroine Inoshika Ocho is attacked by several men and, for some reason or another, within the film's first two minutes she is completely nude. (Maybe it is easier to sword fight in the nude than wearing a constricting kimono.) Anyway, after this opening, Ocho has just arrived in a new city that is crawling with seedy individuals. After being led to a rickshaw by a young woman, she is taken a building where she is at first drugged and then molested. When she comes to, she finds herself nude and next to a dead girl who was killed by having her crotch gouged. A man, who we later learn was a former member of Ogi family gang informs Ocho that she will be accused of being a notorious killer called the "crotch-gouger." The film then continues to degenerate in a senseless mush introducing such characters as Christ Yoshimi, a woman who must kill after she prays, a crime lord called Big Tiger whose past is wrapped up with Ocho's and a few others including a group of prostitutes who smuggle in vials of drugs which have been hidden in their most secret places.
From its opening sequence Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition and Torture is a complete train wreck. Maybe if the plot had centered on one plot the film might have seemed less disjointed and more coherent and enjoyable. However, if one is just looking to see a lot of flesh, than this is the perfect film for viewers who desire to do so.
 Brilliant sequel December 17, 2006
Erik D. Hilsinger (Eagle River AK DDR)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love Japanese post-war cinema more and more as my knowledge of the land people and cultures of Japan are increased incrementally with each small experience. I would watch this after we understand who OneTwoThree is and with an understanding of Yakuza culture as a component of Japanese culture as a whole. Some of the imagery of this film will repulse and horrify Americans who are not used to the sincerity and intensity of Japanese feelings towards those violating the rules of their culture. We Americans often talk about some of the things done herein but rarely portray it in our films and written works. There is a poetry and a savagery to this film that raises it far above a simple exploitation film or softcore pornography. It is relevant today for showing how a system may lose its relevance and be abused by some when the polity fails to enforce its rules, and the brutality of the imbalances thus created being righted-are you listening Messrs. Bush and Cheney?
lame soft porn July 13, 2006
Bacchus (4066 Australia)
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
Teruo Ishii stretches the patience of his viewers again with yet another 'pinky violence' offering, continueing the tradition of bad story line, absolutely lame sword-fighting choreography and unappealing sex scenes. Yes, the tale does include women forced to smuggle drugs in their apparently gigantic private parts, but that's not enough reason to watch this. Two stars is generous. My recommendation is to buy yourself some good porn or a good samurai movie, but this combo does not work.
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