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Meiko Kaji

Meiko Kaji is a Japanese singer and actress, known for her roles in cult films such as Lady Snowblood and Stray Cat Rock. She is also renowned for her music career, particularly for her theme songs in the films that she starred in. Kaji continues to be a prominent figure in Japanese pop culture to this day.

Titles credited to Meiko Kaji

Lady Snowblood

修羅雪姫

Film Age rating: 18 Year: 1973 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in pr...

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

仁義なき戦い 広島死闘篇

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1973 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitio...

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Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

女囚701号さそり

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1972 IMDB Rating: 7.2

After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cohorts with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire for revenge knows no bounds.

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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss

新仁義なき戦い 組長の首

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1975 IMDB Rating: 7.2

The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The next stage of this continuing drama is the Kanmon Cha...

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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

女囚さそり 第41雑居房

Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1972 IMDB Rating: 7.1

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.

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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable

女囚さそり けもの部屋

Film Age rating: 18 Year: 1973 IMDB Rating: 7

Following her successful prison break, Scorpion begins this third episode in the series hiding out in a brothel. Her prostitute friend tries to keep her identity secret, but the brothel's madam discov...

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Blind Woman's Curse

怪談昇り竜

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1970 IMDB Rating: 6.6

Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The...

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Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

修羅雪姫 怨み恋歌

Film Age rating: 18 Year: 1974 IMDB Rating: 6.3

Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries...

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Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song

女囚さそり 701号怨み節

Film Age rating: 18 Year: 1973 IMDB Rating: 6.3

Nami is once again on the run from the law but is saved by an old classmate who works at a strip club. Through a subsequent conversation they discover they both have a score to settle with a particula...

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Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal

野良猫ロック マシン・アニマル

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1970 IMDB Rating: 6.3

Two Japanese men help a Vietnam war deserter escape from Japan for Sweden. They plan to fund the escape by selling LSD pills. After word of the drug deal gets spread around they find themselves fendin...

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