Sex and Fury

Furyô anego den: Inoshika Ochô

Japan

1973

88 Min

Color

2.35:1

English, Japanese

Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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SCR Tarô Bonten, Masahiro Kakefuda, Noribumi Suzuki

CAST Reiko Ike, Christina Lindberg, Akemi Negishi, Ryôko Ema, Yôko Hori, Naomi Oka

Reiko Ike stars as Ocho, a gambler and pickpocket in Meiji Era Tokyo. After sheltering a fleeing anarchist, Ocho runs into the three gangsters responsible for her father’s murder, and runs afoul of various yakuza who want her dead. A European spy, played by Christina Lindberg, arrives on the scene and complicates matters. —IMDb

Director

Noribumi Suzuki

Noribumi Suzuki (鈴木則文 Suzuki Noribumi?), also known as Norifumi Suzuki, is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his works for studio Toei (東映株式会社), especially the Red Peony Gambler and Truck Yarō series.

Suzuki was born November 26, 1933 in Shizuoka. He dropped out of Ritsumeikan University’s Department of Economics, and subsequently joined Toei’s Kyoto Studio as an assistant director in 1956, learning his craft under Masahiro Makino, Tai Kato and Tomu Uchida. He made his screenwriting debut on director Kōkichi Uchide’s 1963 film Zoku: Tenamonya Sandogasa (続・てなもんや三度笠, co-written with Takaharu Sawada), and his directorial debut in 1965 with Osaka Dokonjō Monogatari: Doerai Yatsu (大阪ど根性物語どえらい奴), starring Makoto Fujita.

At the behest of Toei producer Shigeru Okada, Suzuki wrote the script for female gambler film Red Peony Gambler (緋牡丹博徒, 1968) starring Junko Fuji, which became a hit series spanning eight films.

His 1975 film Truck Yarō… read more