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Japanese Movie Poster.Today's recipe is made of pure refined ingredients, coming from one of the greatest, or maybe the greatest of all the exploitation films from the 70's. This movie has it all. A good plot, a very well written script, good actors, good action sequences, blood, and some sex scenes which justify and enhance the revenge storyline. Photography is also one of the highest points of this film.Sex & Fury Technical Data: |
- Title: Sex & Fury (Anego Den)
- Alternate Titles: The Story of a Bad Elder Sister, a Deer Amongst Wild Boars.
- Director: Noribumi Suzuki
- Writers: Masahiro Kakefuda (screenplay), Noribumi Suzuki
- Actors:Seizaburo Kawazu, Masataka Naruse, Christina Lindberg, Reiko Ike, Hiroshi Nawa
- Country:Japan
- Language:Japanese
- Release Date:17 February 1973 (Japan)
- Runtime: 88 min.
- Color:Color
- Aspect Ratio:2.35 : 1
- Rated: R
- Film known names: Anego Den, Sex &; Fury, The Story of a Bad Elder Sister, a Deer Amongst Wild Boars.
Deadly Ocho.
Colors are very important in the films quality.
Taking a walk on some very beautiful tori gates with her father, a young Kyoko witnesses the merciless assassination of her father (a detective) when some unknown culprits show up to stab him to death. However, before he dies he picks up three cards depicting the images of a boar, a deer, and a butterfly. With only this information to aid her in identifying her father's killers, Kyoko changes her name to Inoshika Ocho and lives the next 20 years of her life honing skills in the underworld gambling and pick pocketing.
One
day at a gambling house owned by a seedy man named Imamura, a dealer is
accused of cheating and is killed by its patrons. However, before he
dies he tells Ocho that Imamura was the one who told him to cheat and he
asks her to take 500 yen (btw this movie is set in 1905) to
"purchase" his sister freedom from a prostitution house located in
Asakusa, in which she's about to lose her virginity and become a forced
slut.
a Dead father's hand holding key clues.
Revenge!
That night, while taking a nice bath, Ocho is attacked by Imamura and his goons(yeah they were hidden listening to Ocho's conversation with the unfortunate dealer), so we, the viewers are treated with the image of a totally nude Ocho (the actress Ike Reiko was 19 or 20 at the time this film was made), slicing apart Imamura and his men in a montage of lively red blood, naked flesh, severed limbs, and snow with early 1970s psychedelic music, which reminds you of Quentin Tarantino's choices for his movies soundtracks.
Ocho
eventually arrives in Asakusa and, along with communicating with her
foster mom and her step sisters, she finds Yuki, the dead man's sister,
but her current owner, a business man named Iwakura is unwilling to let
go of his new virgin, since deflowering virgins is his hobby(!) However,
he doesn't take the $500 yen and instead offers to let go of Yuki only
if Ocho can defeat the new in town foreign gambler named Christina (yes Christina Lindberg's role) but if she loses Iwakura will get to stay not only with Yuki but with Ocho as well.
A spy and her Duty.
Movie Poster.
Christina does well at first, but after the party is attacked by her former lover Shunosuke, who bears a grudge against Iwakura and the politician Kurokawa(that's funny cause he's always screaming Kurokawa like hell and never really gets to accomplish his deed haha) her mind is filled with images of their love-making and she loses her mind and eventually loses the poker match. However, in the meantime, Iwakura to avoid going empty handed, prepares a special syrup(placed on Yuki's vagina) that would transform Yuki into a nymphomaniac for life, and yeah to make sure the syrup works he himself has sex with Yuki.
Later the abused girl tells Ocho Iwakura has a tattoo of a deer on his back. So, having found one of her father's murderers, Ocho embarks on a quest for revenge during which she will have to face all sorts of adversaries, including switchblade-wielding nuns, gangsters and a long gone relative...
Deadly Assasin Nuns.
Religion.
During the golden 50s cinema was a major spectacle in Japan. Millions of film viewers flocked to thousands upon thousands of theaters. However, during the 1960s television and its all encompassing grasp took hold of the country and film studios began to close and many film directors such as Kobayashi Masaaki himself and Kurosawa Akira had difficulty funding their films. Instead films filled with sex and violence, Roman Porn or Pink Films, became the standard and so was the exploitation seed planted everywhere on film industries.
Once respected film studios such as Nikkatsu started to churn out one skin flick after the other. With limited budgets and limited filming schedules, these films were quickly produced, consumed by the audience, and completely forgotten. However, some of these films, such as this film, Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs, the Female Prisoner Scorpion series, have made more of a lasting impact that can be seen in the films in such directors as Miike Takashi.
Ocho doesn't need to fight with her clothes on.
These scenes inspired Kill Bill's crazy 88s battle.
Sex
and Fury is of course filled with violence. Severed limbs fly about and
red blood sprays all over the walls. Ocho must endure being chained up
and whipped by Christina, bondage and S&M scenes are quite
common in these films, while her tormentors look on. There is of course a
lot of sex also, including a lesbian sex scene between Christina and a
servant of Kurokawa's named Shinobu. Add to this mixture of sex and
violence a soundtrack of rock music, Sex and Fury is an enjoyable, quick
watch. I mean with switchblade-wielding nuns how could you go wrong?
Grand Finale.
Christina Lindberg's Talented face.
Here's the Sex & Fury trailer:
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| Deadly Ocho. |
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| Colors are very important in the films quality. |
Taking a walk on some very beautiful tori gates with her father, a young Kyoko witnesses the merciless assassination of her father (a detective) when some unknown culprits show up to stab him to death. However, before he dies he picks up three cards depicting the images of a boar, a deer, and a butterfly. With only this information to aid her in identifying her father's killers, Kyoko changes her name to Inoshika Ocho and lives the next 20 years of her life honing skills in the underworld gambling and pick pocketing.
One day at a gambling house owned by a seedy man named Imamura, a dealer is accused of cheating and is killed by its patrons. However, before he dies he tells Ocho that Imamura was the one who told him to cheat and he asks her to take 500 yen (btw this movie is set in 1905) to "purchase" his sister freedom from a prostitution house located in Asakusa, in which she's about to lose her virginity and become a forced slut.
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a Dead father's hand holding key clues.
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That night, while taking a nice bath, Ocho is attacked by Imamura and his goons(yeah they were hidden listening to Ocho's conversation with the unfortunate dealer), so we, the viewers are treated with the image of a totally nude Ocho (the actress Ike Reiko was 19 or 20 at the time this film was made), slicing apart Imamura and his men in a montage of lively red blood, naked flesh, severed limbs, and snow with early 1970s psychedelic music, which reminds you of Quentin Tarantino's choices for his movies soundtracks.
Ocho eventually arrives in Asakusa and, along with communicating with her foster mom and her step sisters, she finds Yuki, the dead man's sister, but her current owner, a business man named Iwakura is unwilling to let go of his new virgin, since deflowering virgins is his hobby(!) However, he doesn't take the $500 yen and instead offers to let go of Yuki only if Ocho can defeat the new in town foreign gambler named Christina (yes Christina Lindberg's role) but if she loses Iwakura will get to stay not only with Yuki but with Ocho as well.
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| A spy and her Duty. |
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| Movie Poster. |
Christina does well at first, but after the party is attacked by her former lover Shunosuke, who bears a grudge against Iwakura and the politician Kurokawa(that's funny cause he's always screaming Kurokawa like hell and never really gets to accomplish his deed haha) her mind is filled with images of their love-making and she loses her mind and eventually loses the poker match. However, in the meantime, Iwakura to avoid going empty handed, prepares a special syrup(placed on Yuki's vagina) that would transform Yuki into a nymphomaniac for life, and yeah to make sure the syrup works he himself has sex with Yuki.
Later the abused girl tells Ocho Iwakura has a tattoo of a deer on his back. So, having found one of her father's murderers, Ocho embarks on a quest for revenge during which she will have to face all sorts of adversaries, including switchblade-wielding nuns, gangsters and a long gone relative...
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| Deadly Assasin Nuns. |
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| Religion. |
During the golden 50s cinema was a major spectacle in Japan. Millions of film viewers flocked to thousands upon thousands of theaters. However, during the 1960s television and its all encompassing grasp took hold of the country and film studios began to close and many film directors such as Kobayashi Masaaki himself and Kurosawa Akira had difficulty funding their films. Instead films filled with sex and violence, Roman Porn or Pink Films, became the standard and so was the exploitation seed planted everywhere on film industries.
Once respected film studios such as Nikkatsu started to churn out one skin flick after the other. With limited budgets and limited filming schedules, these films were quickly produced, consumed by the audience, and completely forgotten. However, some of these films, such as this film, Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs, the Female Prisoner Scorpion series, have made more of a lasting impact that can be seen in the films in such directors as Miike Takashi.
 |
| Ocho doesn't need to fight with her clothes on. |
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| These scenes inspired Kill Bill's crazy 88s battle. |
Sex and Fury is of course filled with violence. Severed limbs fly about and red blood sprays all over the walls. Ocho must endure being chained up and whipped by Christina, bondage and S&M scenes are quite common in these films, while her tormentors look on. There is of course a lot of sex also, including a lesbian sex scene between Christina and a servant of Kurokawa's named Shinobu. Add to this mixture of sex and violence a soundtrack of rock music, Sex and Fury is an enjoyable, quick watch. I mean with switchblade-wielding nuns how could you go wrong?
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| Grand Finale. |
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| Christina Lindberg's Talented face. |
Here's the Sex & Fury trailer:
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