Blind Woman's Curse

Original title: Kaidan nobori ryû

IMDb RATING

6.5/10

1.7K

YOUR RATING

Meiko Kaji in Blind Woman's Curse (1970)

Action Crime Horror

The head of a yakuza gang is being trailed by a mysterious, vengeful blind woman.The head of a yakuza gang is being trailed by a mysterious, vengeful blind woman.The head of a yakuza gang is being trailed by a mysterious, vengeful blind woman.

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IMDb RATING

6.5/10

1.7K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
NOBORI RYU series. #3 and final in series.

Goofs
When the woman is pulled up the well, the man who holds the rope suddenly runs away and lets go of the rope. The woman should instantly fall back down to the bottom of the well but she does not. Another man grabs the rope a couple seconds later to prevent a fall that did not happen.

Quotes
Akemi Tachibana: Tatsu, You're too filthy even for the Yakuza.
Senba-tatsu: Thanks and you're too pretty. Go home and scrub the floor.

Connections
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Review

Featured review

9/10

Intriguing mix of styles and moods

Meiko Kaji spends 3 years in jail for avenging her Yakuza father, and on her release she inherits the leadership of the Tachibana gang. They're quite a nice bunch, for Yakuza, but a nasty rival gang are bent on taking over their territory. As if that wasn't bad enough, she appears to be under the curse of a black cat that got a taste of her victim's blood...

The film takes a broadly familiar period-Yakuza story and mixes it up with elements of horror and... strangeness, making for an intriguing cocktail of styles, moods and ideas. Teruo Ishii was one of the premier visual stylists of the Japanese exploitation wave, and this film shares the style even though it's relatively light on the exploitation. The plot is straightforward but the details make it interesting, and having Meiko Kaji as the lead actress certainly helps there too.

Good stuff!