Female Yakuza Tale - Inquisition and Torture

Rating NR Formats DVD Genre action Starring Reiko Ike, Makoto Ashikawa, Arumi Kuri, Meika Seri, Jun Midorikawa Directed by Teruo Ishii Publisher Panik House Entertainment External Links Panik House Entertainment

Female Yakuza Tale is a new(ish) release in the Pinky Violence series from Panik House Entertainment. It is also the sequel to the movie Sex and Fury also starring Reiko Ike.

I'm going to be honest here. I usually take down notes while watching a film so I have something to make reference from when I write my reviews. The only problem is that I was so dumbfounded by this movie that I stopped taking notes roughly 15 minutes into the movie.

Instead of giving a plot synopsis, and possibly ruining the movie in the process, I will instead transcript my notes word for word. Granted, this will give away parts of the first fifteen minutes of the movie, but trust me when I say that it by no means ruins the film. So now, my notes:

- Movie opens with what can only be seen as a combination striptease/sword fight/opening credit sequence. Unsure of the relevance to plot, but holding out that it will help further the story.

- Two and a half minutes into the movie now. Hopes of opening scene being relevant dashed. Main character, Ochô Inoshika arrives via boat. After brief ride from over-joyed, over-acting rickshaw driver, Ocho is taken to an estate. She is then drugged and fingerbanged by two guys, one of which wears more eye make-up than the entire line-up of Mötley Crüe.

- Ocho is woken up by a mysterious man. She tries to stab him with bloody knife. Where did bloody knife come from? Presumably from the bloody corpse of a woman with mutilated genitals (Not shown, thankfully) lying next to her. Apparently, she has been framed in what is a string of murders, aptly titled, "The Crotch-Gouge Murders". I swear to god, I am not making this up.

- Mystery man makes a comment about Ocho's vagina catching a cold, then walks outside. Why he walks outside is unknown, but I can only assume it is so he can be shot in the arm, and then chased by a few bad guys while bad 70's wah-wah music drones in the background.

- At the 10 minute mark now. Mystery man is rescued by a super killer nun named Yoshimi. I swear to Christ, I am not making this up.

- Mystery man beats up a priest and uses his outfit as a disguise. Super Nun made no move to stop him. Starting to think she may not be a real nun. Priest deserved beating. Was a homophobe.

- In hotel room, Super Killer Nun is now topless and wiping her breasts off with what look like Kleenex's. Mystery man tries to put the moves on Killer Nun, and in an act of rage, she cuts a pineapple in half. I'm serious, I am not making this up.

- Ocho tracks down a pickpocket who might be able to lead her to somebody who may know somebody who might know some information that she would like to know... My brain hurts. 12 minute mark just flew by.

- Pickpocket takes Ocho to Saloon where the hopes of plot advancement (Or maybe even the start of a plot?) will emerge. Sadly, scene develops into a series of lame sex scenes.

- After brief fight with gang of female theives, Ocho kidnaps the girl who set her up with the rickshaw. Takes girl to warehouse and demands to be told why she was set up. Once again, hopes of plot advancement are quickly dashed as flashback involves thirty seconds of plot detail, and roughly ten minutes of more sex. Interesting note: In 1973, apparently the way they had sex in Japan consisted of the man, still clad in his underwear, to kiss and lick the woman's breast for long periods of time, while woman moaned and threw herself about with ecstasy. Could possibly explain population boom.

That's where my brain shut off and I stopped taking notes. In all honesty, though, things do become a little clearer, and I was able to watch the rest of the movie all of the way through with no problems.

Well, that is, up until the scene with the 17-year-old being tortured with electro-shocks in a jail cell that was filled with what were probably supposed to be geisha's, but looked more like bad female mimes with vacant looks on their faces.

Although the final fight scene with the thirty naked women with swords versus the twenty clothed men with guns was kind of interesting.

Really, I'm not making any of this up.

Some of the high points of the movie: The movie looks great. Not just the transfer, but the original cinematography is just gorgeous. And to be honest, it is kind of interesting seeing a Japanese film that is about female empowerment, especially since that is still a taboo subject to this day. Also, Ryohei Uchida, who plays Joji (The Mystery Man), did get a few funny one-liners off and was pretty bad ass when he had to be. Anybody who can slap a bullet and lodge it into somebody's eye gets my utmost respect.

So all in all, if you're in the mood for some gratuitous nudity and good old fashioned exploitation film fun, then Female Yakuza Tale is the film for you. And if it isn't... I don't know... Watch The Polar Express or something.