Be noted that these posts will be very infrequent. I'll be moving some old posts into this thread as well.
Girl Boss Guerilla (1972)

Finally got this! Feb 10, 1969 issue!HungFist wrote: ↑27 May 2017, 18:59 She was telling some great stories about Toei and how she got into Inferno of Torture, where she plays the first girl tattoeed by both Asao Koike and Teruo Yoshida. She said she joined Toei via Toei's new faces competition (like Sonny Chiba and Ken Takakura before her). Toei brought the screenplay to her but she refused it on basis of the nudity and its extreme nature. The film later went into production with a different actress, who however quit in the middle of filming because she couldn't take it! Meanwhile Katayama had agreed to do a bikini shoot for Heibon Punch, but it turned out a nude photo shoot! She used a fake name, but Toei found out said now she has no excuse not to do (replace the missing actress in) Inferno of Torture.
I completely forgot about that one! Good film! I never realized this before but looking at the cast list on IMDb, Naomi Oka (as Mei Ho), one of Toei's Pinky Violence girls, is there.Killer Meteor;205623 wrote:That explain's GH's porno/kung fu movie THE ASSOCIATION...man, that movie is weird!
CORRECTION: While I believe my translation is correct, the story is not! Suzuki says in his book (Toei guerilla senki, 2013, page 14) that the whole story about Ike and Sugimoto hanging out at Aoi Heya was made up by producer Amao for marketing purposes! LOL!HungFist wrote: ↑09 Feb 2020, 04:35
There’s a nice little Reiko Ike biography in the Hotwax’s Who's Who Book 和モノ事典1970’s 人名編 (2006). English summary (scan below, please point out if I made any glaring mistakes)
Was scouted by director Norifumi Suzuki and producer Kanji Amao in May 1971 at the famous Aoi Heya club in Tokyo where both Ike and Miki Sugimoto used to hang out