Criminal Woman: Killing Melody

6.8
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Run time: 83 min
  • Premiere: 1973. October 27.

Reiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local Yakuza mob. Having outlived his usefulness to the gang he is murdered and Reiko is gang raped, leading her to attempt a knife attack on the Yakuza boss (Ryoji Hayama) at a swank nightclub. Failing to kill him she ends up in prison, where she befriends a crew of other malcontents (including Yumiko Katayama and Chiyoko Kazama) and meets the Yakuza boss's girlfriend (Miki Sugimoto). Upon release Reiko reassembles her mob and launches a Machiavellian scheme to engineer a gang war between Hayama's Oba Industries and the formerly dominant Hamayasu Clan. The rival gangs begin killing each other off and Reiko works her way closer to her ultimate vengeance.

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Art

Hiroshi Kitagawa

Production Design

Camera

Mitsuo Katô

Still Photographer

Crew

Masahiko Iimura

Cinematography

Directing

Shinichi Hashimoto

Assistant Director

Atsushi Mihori

Director

Editing

Fumio Soda

Editor

Lighting

Shiro Kuwana

Lighting Technician

Production

Kineo Yoshimine

Executive Producer

Kazuo Iriba

Production Manager

Kenji Takamura

Production Coordinator

Sound

Masao Yagi

Original Music Composer

Writing

Hirō Matsuda

Screenplay

Fumio Kōnami

Screenplay

Art

Hiroshi Kitagawa

Production Design

Camera

Mitsuo Katô

Still Photographer

Crew

Masahiko Iimura

Cinematography

Directing

Shinichi Hashimoto

Assistant Director

Atsushi Mihori

Director

Editing

Fumio Soda

Editor

Lighting

Shiro Kuwana

Lighting Technician

Production

Kineo Yoshimine

Executive Producer

Kazuo Iriba

Production Manager

Kenji Takamura

Production Coordinator

Sound

Masao Yagi

Original Music Composer

Writing

Hirō Matsuda

Screenplay

Fumio Kōnami

Screenplay