After finding the Quentin Tarantino movie (s) Kill Bill to be rather disappointing,I've found myself staying away from taking a look at any Marital Arts related film genres.Taking a look at IMDb's Horror board a few weeks ago,I noticed a thread talking about a great sounding Martial Arts sub-genre called Pinky Violence.With the sub-genre being in the back of my mind,as I started to search for DVDs online that I could watch for a poll being held on IMDb's Classic Film board for the best movies of 1973,I was delighted to stumble upon a Pinky Violence title on Ebay,which only had 5 minutes to go!,and led to me excitingly getting ready to take a look at the Pinky Violence genre for the first time.
The plot:
Taken to an unknown destination by a rickshaw driver,Och Inoshika is suddenly grabbed by a gang of drug dealers,who tie Inoshika up and begin torturing her,as they start to prepare to make Och into their latest drug carrier,by placing their latest drug supply into her body.Finding Inoshika to have an unsuitable body for the drug carrying,the gang knock Och out,and run away.
Woken up by a strange man, Inoshika is confronted with a body of a dead women by her side,and a blood-covered knife in her hand.Reconising Och clears signs of stress,the stranger tells Inoshika that she must track down the gang fast,or else she will be labelled as the offender/serial killer behind a series of murders called the Crotch-Gang murders.Relising that the victim's blood has been placed on her hands,Inoshika decides that she must wipe out the entire city's brutal underworld.
View on the film:
For the screenplay of the movie,co-writer/ (along with Bobby White and Masahiro Kakefuda) director Teruo Ishii takes an intriguingly hazy approach to the plot,with the wonderful overly exaggerated Pinky Violence scenes being contrasted by a number of rather broad Sex Comedy moments,which feel completely at odds with the disturbingly cleaver scenes, (such as the body part that the gang makes their carriers keep the drugs in)spiked across the film by the writers.
Setting the movie off with high-kicking style,composer Sou Tsguki, (whose sadly not credited on IMDb) gives the film a tremendous score,with Tsguki giving the title a rolling atmosphere thanks to a fantastic opening theme,which is joined by a smooth dark jazzy score,which perfectly matches Inoshika's battle with the underworld.
Reveling that she's clearly not afraid from showing some skin right from the start,the stunning Reiko Ike gives an excellent performance as Och Inoshika,with Ike giving the films fight scenes an elegant,graceful note that is matched by the cold stare which Ike gives Inoshika,as she takes on the thugs of the underworld one by one.
Opening the film with a sparkling title sequence fight, director Teruo Ishii shows a tremendously stylised eye,with Ishii using long,closed in tracking shots to show the dark streets of the city which Och is walking down,which are lit up by Ishii's fantastic use of colour,thanks to Ishii not only spraying red for the films stylish fight scenes,but also using primary colours in everything from the stain glass windows to the drug dealers den to give the title a delightful dream atmosphere,as Ishii turns all of the violence in the film,bright pinky.
The plot:
Taken to an unknown destination by a rickshaw driver,Och Inoshika is suddenly grabbed by a gang of drug dealers,who tie Inoshika up and begin torturing her,as they start to prepare to make Och into their latest drug carrier,by placing their latest drug supply into her body.Finding Inoshika to have an unsuitable body for the drug carrying,the gang knock Och out,and run away.
Woken up by a strange man, Inoshika is confronted with a body of a dead women by her side,and a blood-covered knife in her hand.Reconising Och clears signs of stress,the stranger tells Inoshika that she must track down the gang fast,or else she will be labelled as the offender/serial killer behind a series of murders called the Crotch-Gang murders.Relising that the victim's blood has been placed on her hands,Inoshika decides that she must wipe out the entire city's brutal underworld.
View on the film:
For the screenplay of the movie,co-writer/ (along with Bobby White and Masahiro Kakefuda) director Teruo Ishii takes an intriguingly hazy approach to the plot,with the wonderful overly exaggerated Pinky Violence scenes being contrasted by a number of rather broad Sex Comedy moments,which feel completely at odds with the disturbingly cleaver scenes, (such as the body part that the gang makes their carriers keep the drugs in)spiked across the film by the writers.
Setting the movie off with high-kicking style,composer Sou Tsguki, (whose sadly not credited on IMDb) gives the film a tremendous score,with Tsguki giving the title a rolling atmosphere thanks to a fantastic opening theme,which is joined by a smooth dark jazzy score,which perfectly matches Inoshika's battle with the underworld.
Reveling that she's clearly not afraid from showing some skin right from the start,the stunning Reiko Ike gives an excellent performance as Och Inoshika,with Ike giving the films fight scenes an elegant,graceful note that is matched by the cold stare which Ike gives Inoshika,as she takes on the thugs of the underworld one by one.
Opening the film with a sparkling title sequence fight, director Teruo Ishii shows a tremendously stylised eye,with Ishii using long,closed in tracking shots to show the dark streets of the city which Och is walking down,which are lit up by Ishii's fantastic use of colour,thanks to Ishii not only spraying red for the films stylish fight scenes,but also using primary colours in everything from the stain glass windows to the drug dealers den to give the title a delightful dream atmosphere,as Ishii turns all of the violence in the film,bright pinky.