Criminal Woman: Killing Melody

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.

Cast

Reiko Ike

Maki

Miki Sugimoto

Massayo

Yumiko Katayama

Kaoru

Chiyoko Kazama

Natsuko

Masami Sôda

Ryōji Hayama

Boss Oba

Shinzō Hotta

Seiya Satō

Keiichi Kitagawa

Tooru Hanada

Crew

Fumio Soda

Editor

Kineo Yoshimine

Executive Producer

Kazuo Iriba

Production Manager

Hiroshi Kitagawa

Production Design

Masao Yagi

Original Music Composer

Yozo Uchida

Sound

Mitsuo Katô

Still Photographer

Shinichi Hashimoto

Assistant Director

Kenji Takamura

Production Coordinator

Atsushi Mihori

Director

Clips & Videos

Criminal Woman: Killing Melody (1973) Japanese Language Trailer