The Tattooed Swordswoman
(1970)
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The Tattooed Swordswoman
(1970)
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Meiko Kaji | ... |
Akemi Tachibana
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Hoki Tokuda | ... |
Aiko Gouda
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Makoto Satô | ... |
Tani Shouichi
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Yoshi Katô | ... |
Jutaro Mitsui
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Yûzô Harumi |
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Tôru Abe | ... |
Dobashi
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Shirô Ôtsuji | ... |
Senba-tatsu
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Hideo Sunazuka | ... |
Kantaro
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Yôko Takagi | ... |
Chie-chan
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Ryôhei Uchida | ... |
Aozora
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Akira Takahashi |
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Tatsumi Hijikata | ... |
Hunchback dancer
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Nobuko Aoki |
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Chieko Harada |
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Kokan Katsura |
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Akemi and the man of her clan confront their opponents; Akemi delivers a sword thrust to kill the opponents' leader, and Aiko, his daughter, tries to interpose herself, suffering a glancing blow to her eyes, thus cutting her badly, and blinding her. Amid the ensuing fight, no one notices that a black cat laps the young woman's wound. Years later, revenge between the two clans continue, plus added dissension amongst Akemi's people, leading to more deaths. A new member comes to help them, but she is a strange woman - and blind. The curse of the blind woman is about to fell on the dragon-lady. Written by Artemis-9
I found this movie to be a weird mix and to be totally honest, I am not sure if I like this movie. This movie seems to have a weird mix of visuals from gore, psychedelia,Jidai Geki and yakuza elements. I personally found it a little off putting and there were parts of the movie, the psychedelic gore parts with the visuals and colouring, that I did not enjoy. Meiko Kaji stars as tachibana doing her soon to be trademark stoic, unspeaking character. Like her later characters Scorpion and Lady Snowblood, she does not say much nor shows much emotion. While it worked (very successfully) with these characters it does not work in this movie. Instead of driven she looked uncertain. Not the best movie but an interesting movie and a look at the development of meiko kaji as an actress.