Kaidan nobori ryuu

(9=18/2 voters)
a.k.a. THE BLIND WOMAN'S CURSE
a.k.a. THE HAUNTED LIFE OF A DRAGON-TATTOOED LASS
a.k.a. TATTOOED SWORDSWOMAN
trans. Strange tales of Dragon-Tattoo

Nikkatsu, 1970, Color, 85mins.

Producers: Koi Hideo ... planner
Sasaki Shirou(II) ... planner
Director: Ishii Teruo
Writers: Ishii Teruo
Sone Yoshitada
Photo: Kitaizumi Shigeru
Music: Kaburagi Sou
Cast: Kaji Meiko ... Tachibana Akemi
Satou Makoto ... Tani Shouichi
Katou Yoshi ... Mitsui Joutarou
Sunazuka Hideo ... Kantarou
Hoki Tokuda ... Gouda Aiko
Abe Tooru ... Dobashi
Uchida Ryouhei ... Aozora
Hijikata Tatsumi ... Ushimatsu
Ootsuji Shirou ... Senba Tatsu
Takagi Youko ... Mitsui Chie
Yanase Shirou
Shibata Shinzou
Kahara Bumon ... Gouda
Harumi Yuuzou ... Nobuo
Chou Hiroshi ... Takeshi
Kudou Toshizou
Aoki Nobuko
Ooyagi Youko
Maki Masami
Harada Chieko
Yamabe Nobuko
Nishihara Yasue
Katsura Kokan ... Hisao
Takahashi Akira
Oohama Shirou ... Shin'ichi
Mizukawa Kuniya ... Suekichi
Aoki Toshio ... Minoru
Arai Iwae
Tabata Yoshihiko
Mizoguchi Ken
Atami Hirochi
Izumi Yuu
Kobayashi Wataru
Seyama Kouji
Oumi Daisuke
Sawa Mitsuru
Kitagami Tadayuki
Takase Masatoshi ... stunt
Plot: Tachinbana Akemi was woman yakuza. When she killed enemy yakuzas, she cut the enemy boss's daughter's eyes by mistake. After Akemi was jailed and served out her term, her women, who were all tattooed, were killed and skinned one after another. Akemi knew that a blind woman knife thrower in the carnival was a woman who Akemi cut her eyes.
Keywords: Carnival, Freaks, Serial Killer
Video: Nikkatsu
Question: is Hoki Tokuda, famous japanese cabaret singer from the 60's and Henry Miller's girlfriend, a blind woman in Teruo Ishii's 'The Blind Woman's Curse'? (from Velimir Grgic -sama, 18 Sep 2005)
Anser: Yes. (Webmaster)


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