Bullets 'n' Babes

Looking forward to those caps.

Reiko in bikini was hot, yeah. I also loved the car scene.

Okay, I'm gonna go watch Red Peony Gambler 3 now

HungFist wrote:Looking forward to those caps.

Reiko in bikini was hot, yeah. I also loved the car scene.

Okay, I'm gonna go watch Red Peony Gambler 3 now

Nice!

I have a hard time picking a favorite out of the series.

I love 1,2,3,5 and enjoyed 4 and 6 but felt they paled a little in comparison.

I do remember the third having one of the better Wakayama appearances.

Part 5 would have had his best appearance if they woulda showed him wielding a sword in all his skilled glory a bit more.

Btw is you avatar from Taifu Club?I need to finish watching that one of these days.
Botched the sub alignment for the custom I made and could only take it for about half the movie.Gonna get off my arse and re-do it again one of these years.

Taifu Club, yes, but don't say another word of it in this thread. That kind of purity should not even be mentioned in a thread that features Nikkatsu reviews...

HungFist wrote:Taifu Club, yes, but don't say another word of it in this thread. That kind of purity should not even be mentioned in a thread that features Nikkatsu reviews...

Anyways better late then never.

Little warm up for synapse to release this hopefully sometime this year.

If you like Kazuhiko Yamaguchi I don't think you should even begin to wonder if you will enjoy this movie.

First is the must have girl gang greeting being performed in a familiar setting.



Heres the rest-









Hopefully these came out all right.

The source is nothing to write home about and I had to use a ghetto builtin windows vista dvd player with print screen.

Sukeban (Girl Boss Revenge) (1973)

The fourth film in the seven part Sukeban series is also the last one directed by Norifumi Suzuki. Although not quite as good as Sukeban gerira (Girl Boss Guerilla) but it’s another highly enjoyable exploitation piece. Suzuki serves his usual mix of action and silly humour, this time spiced with some sadistic violence. The cast is quaranteed to make any genre fan cheer; Miki Sugimoto, Reiko Ike and Ema Ryoko all leading a girl gangs of their own, and Toei’s number one bad guy Bin Amatsu as the treacherous villain. Tatsuo Endo and Yoko Mihara and also make brief appearances.

Exploitation Digital’s has given the film a satisfactory release. The image not very sharp but looks rather pleasing and doesn’t feature any major problems (except the sides. Look at the caps and you’ll see something weird going on. But unless you have a zero overscan TV you won’t be able to notice anything). However, what makes this dvd a must buy (aside from the film itself) is the new 14 min Norifumi Suzuki interview. Although not as indepth as it could be it’s still a great pleasure to finally hear the director speak. I believe this is the first time ever Suzuki appears on dvd extras. The disc also contains a nice photo gallery. The trailer is not original, but a disappointing new promo.











Norifumi Suzuki interview

HungFist wrote:Sometimes pink comes from the weirdest of directions; this time from 150 km to west from me. The Swedes are releasing Sadao Nakajima’s Journey to Japan (1973), starring Christina Lindberg. There’s even a good change it will be released in Finland, too (Nordic dvd releases are rarely limited to just one country). But even a Swedish disk with Swedish subtitles only would be a notable step up from unsubbed R2J's (which for this film does not excist, as Studio S Entertaiment's release is a Världspremiär på DVD!).



They are also releasing Sex & Fury. Both discs are coming in Summer 2008

http://www.studiosentertainment.se/

I don't know how final this is but the site is now showing this pic:



I wish they had used the orig poster instead. Journey to Japan will be released 27.8.2008.

If you want more info about the film (in japanese) and a few stills see this site:
http://www.otona-eiga.jp/contents/00000080.php

Music from the film was featured on Hotwax's Sadao Nakajima CD.



I believe there's also an article about the film in their magazine


Vol. 4
151 Pages
A5

The day is here (in August). Toei is God.













In case you don't get it: That's Delinquent Girl Boss 1-4 + Sukeban 1-2.

Basic infos for the upcoming Toei films

Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams (1970) (review)
Director: Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Cast: Reiko Oshida, Junko Miyazono, Yukie Kagawa, Nobuo Kaneko, Tatsuo Umemiya

Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters (1970)
Director: Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Cast: Reiko Oshida, Tsunehiko Watase, Yukie Kagawa, Masumi Tachibana

Delinquent Girl Boss: Ballad of Yokohama Hoods (1971)
Director: Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Cast: Reiko Oshida, Yukie Kagawa, Hayato Tani, Asao Koike

Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless To Confess (1971) (review)
Director: Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Cast: Reiko Oshida, Yumiko Katayama, Yukie Kagawa, Tsunehiko Watase, Nobuo Kaneko

Girl Boss Blues: Queen Bee’s Counter Attack (1971)
Director: Norifumi Suzuki
Cast: Reiko Ike, Miki Sugimoto, Yukie Kagawa, Rena Ichinose

Girl Boss Blues: Queen Bee’s Challenge (1972)
Director: Norifumi Suzuki
Cast: Reiko Ike, Miki Sugimoto, Yayoi Watanabe, Asao Koike

Seems like a good time to post some Reiko Oshida stuff













The world's greatest movie poster needs to be re-posted

Reika was just criminally cute.

The August lineup is sick.

Hopefully Exploitation Digital or Discotek nabs a few of those.


Which Fury Bancho is that vhs coverart piece from?

Classique wrote:Reika was just criminally cute.

Classique wrote: Hopefully Exploitation Digital or Discotek nabs a few of those.

I don't know if it's very profitable anymore. They would lose the japanese customers and other people who are getting the Toei discs. But of course I wish they would release them.

Btw, subs for the first Sukeban film are available, and in my possession.

Classique wrote: Which Fury Bancho is that vhs coverart piece from?

No 10, 不良番長　口から出まかせ (1970) (1970)

Half of Toei’s pinky violence movies are still not available on dvd. These include well know films by directors like Ishii and Suzuki, but also films that are practically unknown in the west. I’ll try to list some of them (more posts to come)

三匹の牝蜂 (1970)

http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1970/ct001510.htm
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/molmot/20070903/p1
http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/kinejun ... h&id=19290

This film is directed by Motohiro Torii, who may be better known as screenwriter. He participated in writing Red Peony Gambler 3 and The Street Fighter, among others. The film stars Reiko Ohara, Junko Natsu, Tsunehiko Watase, Nobuo Kaneko and Asao Koike

The next two films are directed by Makoto Naito, who also did 13 Steps (get it on dvd already, Toei!) with Etsuko Shihomi, and several Furyo Bancho movies.

地獄の天使　紅い爆音 (1977)

http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1977/da003020.htm
http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/kinejun ... h&id=18745
http://douga.nifty.com/cs/catalog/douga ... 9001_2.htm

番格ロック (Bankaku rokku) (1973)

http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1973/cw002930.htm
http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/kinejun ... h&id=19979
http://blog.livedoor.jp/n_tko/archives/50829156.html
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/langberg/e/60e24c ... 93b92cf478

Bankaku rokku stars Emiko Yamauchi, Naoya Makoto, Hideo Murota, Takashi Shikauchi and Yumiko Katayama. Romanization for the 1977 film would be Jigoku no tenshi: akai bakuon (could be wrong), and it stars Aiko Morishita, Katsuhiro Fukuda, Masanori Machida, Tatsuya Kameyama and Tadashi Naruse

くの一忍法　観音開き (Kunoichi Ninpo: Kannon Biraki) (1976)

http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1976/cz000410.htm
http://www.ofdb.de/film/100650,Female-Ninjas
http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/kinejun ... h&id=18475

Aka Female Ninjas: In Bed With the Enemy. Directed by Takayuki Miyagawa. Starring Maki Tachibana, Megumi Hori, Keiko Kinugasa, Maki Karusoru and Jiro Okazaki

狂走セックス族 (Boso sekkusu-zoku) (1973)

http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1973/cw001170.htm
http://www.ofdb.de/film/112023,B%C3%B4s ... kkusu-zoku
http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/kinejun ... h&id=19920
http://www.otona-eiga.jp/contents/00000036.php

Directed by Takayuki Miyagawa and written by Norifumi Suzuki and Masahiro Kakefuda. Stars Tsunehiko Watase, Miki Sugimoto, Reiko Ike, Takashi Shirai, Hiroko Isayama and Yoko Mihara

A quick look at pinky violence movies still waiting to be released on dvd: Part 2

女囚やくざ (Josuke yakuza) (1974)

http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1974/cx000490.htm
http://www.ofdb.de/view.php?page=film_detail&fid=127242
http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/kinejun ... h&id=18199

Directed by Masahide Shinozuka and starring Reiko Ike, Tsunehiko Watase, Yoko Horikoshi, Kyoko Naito and Yuriko Mishima.

忘八武士道　さ無頼 (Bohachi bushidô: sa burai) (1974)

http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1974/cx000260.htm
http://www.ofdb.de/film/101369,Bohachi- ... r-Villainy
http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/kinejun ... h&id=18179

Aka Bohachi Code of Honor: Villainy aka Saburai – The Way of the Bohachi. This is a sequel to Teruo Ishii’s Porno jidaigeki – Bohachi bushido. Directed by Takashi Harada and stars Goro Ibuki, Reiko Ike, Emi Jo, Miki Nakai and Bin Amatsu. Toei has released this on vhs, but not dvd.

毒婦お伝と首切り浅 (Dokufu oden kubikiri asa) (1977)

http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1977/da000080.htm
http://www.ofdb.de/film/101835,Dokufu-oden-kubikiri-asa

aka Decapitation of an Evil Woman. By Yuuji Makiguchi (if Shogun’s Sadism is anything to go by, this is gonna be very splat splat).

A quick look at pinky violence movies still waiting to be released on dvd: Part 3 – Seifuku Heaven

恐怖女子高校　女暴力教室 (Kyôfu joshikôkô: onna bôryoku kyôshitsu) (1972)

http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/kinejun ... h&id=19796
http://www.ofdb.de/film/126651,Terrifyi ... -Classroom
http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1972/cv002840.htm

Aka Terrifying Girls’ High School – Women’s Violent Classroom. Directed by Norifumi Suzuki and starring Miki Sugimoto, Reiko Ike, Rika Sudo, Ema Ryoko, Nobuo Kaneko and Rena Ichinose. This is the first part in the series

恐怖女子高校　不良悶絶グループ (Kyôfu joshikôkô: furyô monzetsu gurûpu) (1973)

http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/kinejun ... h&id=19971
http://www.ofdb.de/film/126648,Terrifyi ... sion-Group
http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1973/cw002770.htm

Aka Terrifying Girls' High School - Delinquent Convulsion Group. Starring Reiko Ike, Yuko Kano, Hiroshi Nawa, Yoko Mihara, Ema Ryoko, Rie Saotome, Tatsuo Endo and Rena Ichinose. Directed by Masahiro Shimura. Third film in the series.

恐怖女子高校　アニマル同級生 (Kyôfu joshikôkô: animal dôkyôsei) (1973)

http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/kinejun ... h&id=20020
http://www.ofdb.de/film/126649,Terrifyi ... al-Courage
http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1973/cw003660.htm

Aka Terrifying Girls' High School – Animal Courage. Starring Reiko Ike, Nobuo Kaneko, Ema Ryoko, Rie Saotome and Emi Shiro. Directed by Masahiro Shimura. Fourth (final) film in the series.

A quick look at pinky violence movies still waiting to be released on dvd: Part 4 – Teruo Ishii’s Strange Love

残酷異常虐待物語　元禄女系図 (Zankoku ijô gyakutai monogatari: Genroku onna keizu) (1969)

http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/kinejun ... h&id=22606
http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1969/cs000030.htm

Aka Orgies of Edo. Starring Asao Koike, Teruo Yoshida, Masumi Tachibana, Yukie Kagawa and Tatsumi Hijikata

異常性愛記録　ハレンチ (Ijo seai kiroku, harenchi) (1969)

http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1969/cs000540.htm
http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/kinejun ... h&id=22624

Starring Asao Koike, Teruo Yoshida, Yumiko Katayama, Eiji Wakasuki and Masumi Tachibana.

緋ぢりめん博徒 (Hidirimen bakuto) (1972)

http://www.ofdb.de/film/101966,Hidirimen-bakuto
http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1972/cv003450.htm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142367/

Aka The Red Silk Gambler. Directed by Teruo Ishii and based on the novel by Oniroku Dan (whoa!). Stars Eiko Nakamura, Sanae Tsuchida, Reiko Ike, Asao Koike, Bunta Sugawara and Hiroko Fuji.

A quick look at pinky violence movies still waiting to be released on dvd: Part 5 - Hot Springs Special Service

温泉あんま芸者 (Onsen anma geisha) (1968)

http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1968/cr001560.htm
http://www.ofdb.de/film/125054,Onsen-anma-geisha
http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/kinejun ... h&id=22455

Aka Hot Springs Massage Geisha. Starring Teruo Yoshida, Masumi Tachibana, Yukie Kagawa, Yoko Mihara. Directed by Teruo Ishii

温泉こんにゃく芸者 (Onsen konnyaku geisha) (1970)

http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/kinejun ... h&id=19328
http://www.ofdb.de/film/101500,Hot-Spri ... ued-Geisha
http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1970/ct002110.htm

Aka Hot Springs Devil-Tongue Geisha. Stars Ichiro Araki, Asao Koike, Hosei Komatsu, Miwako Onaya and Taiji Tonoyama. Directed by Sadao Nakajima.

温泉みみず芸者 (Onsen mimizu geisha) (1971)

http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0377040.htm
http://www.ofdb.de/film/101354,Onsen-mimizu-geisha
http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/kinejun ... h&id=19554

Aka Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha. With Miki Sugimoto, Reiko Ike and Asao Koike. Third in the series. Directed by Norifumi Suzuki.

温泉スッポン芸者 (Onsen suppon geisha) (1972)

http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1972/cv002000.htm
http://www.ofdb.de/film/101356,Onsen-suppon-geisha
http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/kinejun ... h&id=19740

Aka Hot Springs Kiss Geisha, with Miki Sugimoto, Yoko Mihara, Nobuo Kaneko and Ema Ryoko. Directed by Norifumi Suzuki. Fourth (final) in the series.

And finally, unrelated to the Onsen geisha series:

驚異のドキュメント　日本浴場物語 (Nippon yokujo monogatari) (1971)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203741/
http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1971/cu000050.htm

Aka Pilgrimage to Japanese Baths. Directed by Sadao Nakajima

Discotek's Bohachi Bushido has been delayed a few times, but it seem like the disc is now available from their website. Other retailers mention 20.5 as the release date.

So, everybody who doesn't own the film yet, order it now. It's the best chambara film to come out since Lone Wolf and Cub.



First reviews:
http://10kbullets.com/reviews/b/bohachi ... ten-eight/
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/33288/bo ... ten-eight/
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=67896

Damn this release is loaded.

Watched the interview with the actress and it was pretty fun.

Spent at least 20-30 minutes reading the manga they included which is a pretty good chunk of it and it's great to see how closely the movie followed it.

Got thru a little bit of the J-Taro interview.He comes off a little bit at first
like a guy who just watches pinky films because he's a pervert
but as the interview goes further he definately gets in to things alot deeper and shares alot good views and takes on things.

The liner notes/about the film portion is great and informative though the
person who wrote it has the tendency to flex his grammatical muscles
with these ridiculously big words from time to time.

I can't compare on the pq because i'm not too savvy when it comes to
that aspect but from what I remember it looked like a port of the Toei release.

Hooray for Discotek!

Good to hear. I hope the Beautiful Girl Hunter disc will be as good.

I ran into a film that went totally unnoticed from before; Aesthetics of a Bullet (Teppodama no bigaku) 鉄砲玉の美学 (1973). It’s a ATG film, but with a full Toei crew; Sadao Nakajima, Miki Sugimoto, Tsunehiko Watase, Asao Koike.... Of couse no dvd ever.





http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1973/cw000330.htm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0324207/
http://www.ofdb.de/film/146786,Tepp%C3%B4dama-no-bigaku

I also edited a few more missing Toei films into the earliers posts. Check if interested.

The some stuff I found from yahoo

6 CD’s. Reiko Ike and Sanda Julien mentioned somewhere









No, don’t ask. I don’t know.

Another yahoo discovery



No, I don’t know what this is either. But I’d dare to guess it’s a book!

And finally, lets add a bit to the August Toei hype; still for Sukeban Blues: Queen Bee’s Challenge (1972), out soon on dvd.

Hi Hungfist, just thought I'd come out of lurking to thank you for the good job you and other posters in this thread are doing keeping us informed on this fun genre of films.

While there are plenty of available titles I have yet to see, I'd like to add this to the "waiting to be released on DVD" list.

????? (1974)

http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1974/cx002050.htm

Reiko Ike moonlighting at Nikkatsu studio for what looks like a cool movie.

Sorry, it seems I can't post the Japanese title.

Thanks and welcome. Nice to hear this thread has been helpful

Whoa, I totally missed the existence of that film (黒い牝豹Ｍ). I didn't even know Reiko ever worked with Nikkatsu. The film is directed by Koreji Kurahara, who did Bad Girl Mako with Junko Natsu (coming to R1 next year)

I'd love to see 黒い牝豹Ｍ on dvd. Maybe some US distributor would be wise enough to license it. Sadly it seems Geneon has stopped releasing Nikkatsu films on dvd, so I can't see anyone releasing it on R2J anytime soon. There seems to be an old VHS, though

Mantis Wife’s Confession (Satsuki Midori no Kamakiri Fujin no Kokuhaku) (1975)

Yuuji Makiguchi started his career as an assistant director in several notable Toei productions (such as Teruo Ishii’s The Joy of Torture and Tai Kato’s Red Peony Gamber 3). He later gained popularity among western cult fans with his hyper violent period splatter Shogun’s Sadism (1976). Mantis Wife’s Confession shares little resemblance to those films. Midori Satsuki stars as a vamp who destroys one poor man’s life after another. Finally she seduces a professional killer, which brings a tiny bit of action into the comedy oriented film. Being a Toei production, Mantis Wife’s Confession looks like real movie rather than a cheap exploitation production. Unfortunately the storyline is running circles, and there’s little to get excited about. A couple of good jokes make you laugh a few times, and one surprise has found its way into the film; Ema Ryoko plays a housewife. She gets into a fight, but her shirt stays on and doesn’t even get ripped. Truly amazing.

Story of a Nymphomaniac (Genroku (maruhi) monogatari) (1975)

And there goes my unquestioned trust for Toei. Why would the greatest film studio on earth even bother to produce such a worthless soft core romp? This Ikuo Sekimoto film has a non-existent and terribly boring plot, and not a single interesting character. There’s one great line of dialogue, a single scene of good comedy, and some nice music here and there but that’s it. The film doesn’t really even manage to disguise itself as high class production - which is something that many of Toei’s exploitation films have succeeded in – because the smutty content and unambitious storyline neutralize the effect of the random pretty images and decent production values. Teaches you to think twice before you spend 4500 yen on a Ikuo Sekimoto film.

Ooku ukiyo-buro (Concubine's Palace) (1977)

Ikuo Sekimoto’s previous film (Story of a Nymphomaniac) was so utterly worthless that I didn’t dare to set my hopes very high this time. But Ooku Ukiyoburo isn’t all bad. The most promising part comes around 30 minutes when several moody, audio visually beautiful scenes follow each other. There’s also a bit of storyline and a half-epic shogun’s inner palace setting. But, of course, the endless sex scenes are hard to survive without falling asleep. If 20 minutes of humping was edited out from the current 80 min running time Ooku Ukiyoburo might be a rather decent erotic period drama. Now it’s watchable and occasionally impressive, but takes some effort. The film stars Masaru Shinga and Eiko Matsuda (Ai no corrida).

All three dvds are typical Toei releases. Good looking, natural transfer. You can spot a tiny bit of edge enhancement in a few scenes if you look real hard. Extras are original trailers and stills. Teaser trailers, if such exist, are not found on the discs.

Note that the running time of Ooku ukiyo-buro is 80:31. Spannick at advdg reported that this dvd (and the old Toei VHS) is not fully uncut. The old German VHS featured footage not found on the Toei print. However, some bits that were not found on the German release are present on this Toei dvd. It seems alternate versions exist, and no one really knows if a fully uncut master still exists.

I’ll try to get the May Norifumi Suzuki dvds reviewed / commented sometime in the summer. I should be receiving the dvds any day now, but I’m quite busy at the moment. I’ll also try to re-watch Ooku jyuhakkei (Dolls of the Shogun’s Harem) and finish that review that I stared writing last summer (d’oh). And maybe do a comparison to the international version of the film (which is missing half of my favourite scenes).

Also, I found this handy site with some info and pics for Toei pink films:
http://www.otona-eiga.jp/list_6.php

And here's another reason to move to Japan:
http://www.laputa-jp.com/laputa/program/zubekou/#top

Finally, found something for Christina fans

https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/ ... -cover.jpg
(Journey to Japan, coming from Studio S in August)