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Luo ye fei dao (1972)iMDB Rating: 6.1
Date Released : 29 June 1972
Genre : Action
Stars : Li Ching, Yun Ling, Lily Li, Shen Chan. Yan Zi Fei and Guan Yue Hua are returning home in love and plan to tell their parents but once they arrive back they find that there is a conflict between the two families. Guan Fun Lin is working with Master Ogawa to assist the Japanese in taking possession of the Yan family's forest - by fair means or foul. With Master Yan refusing to sell, Ogama continues his plotting, using deceit, betrayal ..." />
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Yan Zi Fei and Guan Yue Hua are returning home in love and plan to tell their parents but once they arrive back they find that there is a conflict between the two families. Guan Fun Lin is working with Master Ogawa to assist the Japanese in taking possession of the Yan family's forest - by fair means or foul. With Master Yan refusing to sell, Ogama continues his plotting, using deceit, betrayal and ultimately bloody violence to get what he wants.

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Engaging plot and quite brutal

Yan Zi Fei and Guan Yue Hua are returning home in love and plan to tell their parents but once they arrive back they find that there is a conflict between the two families. Guan Fun Lin is working with Master Ogawa to assist the Japanese in taking possession of the Yan family's forest – by fair means or foul. With Master Yan refusing to sell, Ogama continues his plotting, using deceit, betrayal and ultimately bloody violence to get what he wants.

After seeing some modern films which appear to be referencing the films of the Shaw Brothers, I decided to make a bit of effort to actually watch some of the originals and, as such, I have come to a few of them with the rather "tongue-in-cheek" approach of modern films in mind. It isn't that I have expected total cheese but certainly some element of cheesiness is in my mind when I click play. As a result some of them have taken me by surprise and The Deadly Knives (Luoye Fei dao) is one such film. The plot begins with a very abrupt setup as we quickly learn Ogawa wants this land (in a scene we he says this and then the scene ends!) and that our two main characters are in love. From there the film gets better with the plot and I found the various betrayals and twists to be pretty engaging. What helped this is that there is very little comedy (maybe one or two moments) but mostly it is very brutal. The fight scenes are spread out but are always pretty bloody and intense but more noticeably there is a real thread of sexual violence running through the film. Rape is implied and although some nudity is in here, generally it is shown in a fair way that is not exploitative – the damage it does and the cruelty of it is clear.

The fight sequences are well done, in particular the very large sequence which closes the film; the camera is steady and allows you to see what is happening and this is appreciated as it really lets you appreciate the coordination of all the individual movements. It may not have the wire-fu excesses but the complexity and intensity of it is more than enough. The cast do the action well but also handled the acting side too. Yun Ling plays Fei without a lot of depth and character but he makes a solid central character even if he overacts his despair a bit too much. Li Ching is good as well and convinces more in her pain. The best of the bunch for me was Lily Li's Chiao-Chiao (or Jiao Jiao as my subtitles had it) as she brought character with a small look (her feelings for her foster brother) and also her genuine fear of the violence against her – it was a brutal performance. The villains of the film are enjoyably cruel and well delivered so that they are excessive but not to the point of becoming pantomime characters.

I enjoyed how engaging and brutal this film was, it is not perfect but the action is good, the plot has meaning and consequence and the narrative provides plenty of brutality and twists to keep the attention.

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Yi shen shi dan (1972)iMDB Rating: 5.8
Date Released : 24 August 1972
Genre : Action
Stars : Chung-kuei Chang, Paul Chang, Yi Kuei Chang, Hung Lieh Chen." />
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Ginchô wataridori (1972)iMDB Rating: 6.9
Date Released : 1 April 1972
Genre : Action, Drama
Stars : Meiko Kaji, Tsunehiko Watase, Akiko Koyama, Mieko Aoyagi. Nami, a young woman, is released from the prison after serving 3 years for killing a man. She becomes a hostess to support a sick woman thanks to whom she was released before her term. While trying to manage her own life and helping the sick woman she becomes involved in a Yakuza scheme to take over the bar she works for. She has to use her wits and skills at pool table to save the bar and her ..." />
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Nami, a young woman, is released from the prison after serving 3 years for killing a man. She becomes a hostess to support a sick woman thanks to whom she was released before her term. While trying to manage her own life and helping the sick woman she becomes involved in a Yakuza scheme to take over the bar she works for. She has to use her wits and skills at pool table to save the bar and her own life.

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A worthy addition to Meiko Kaji's filmography now on DVD

Wandering Ginza Butterfly Reviewed by Tim Irwin This is the first time this film has been released on DVD and I am quite excited. It's one of the many movies that the Toei Company made in the early 1970's about the Yakuza and various gangster activities in Tokyo. It features Meiko Kaji, the star of numerous franchises during the 1970's. She was not only Lady Snowblood before Uma Thurman and Quentin Tarantino came along, she was also in Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter and other films from that franchise, and she was Prisoner 701 in the Joshuu series. Not to mention the various Kinji Fukasaku films she starred in.

And now the folks at Synapse Films recently put together this transfer and presented us with another one of Meiko's films. Be careful going into it, though, because if you're expecting something like Yakuza Deka (with Sonny Chiba, who starred in Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2 with Meiko) you might be disappointed. This is a Yakuza film, to be sure, but it's more of a drama than an action or gangster movie.

Meiko is Nami and is again in prison. Same name, same story as the Joshuu films, but no matter. This time she's just been released after three years hard time. She heads back to Tokyo to meet up with her uncle, who owns a billiard hall and taught her how to hustle pool. She gets involved with a local semi-gangster, Ryuji, who hooks the various sex clubs up with hostesses. Since she's rather attractive (and tough) she soon becomes one of the best hostesses around: pretty enough to attract clientèle and mean enough to make sure they pay.

But of course the Owada clan is muscling in on the Ginza neighborhood, and soon the club's owner finds she is being bullied into selling the club to Owada or forfeiting it outright. This is when Nami gets a chance to pay back the kindness shown to her by Ryuji and the club's Madam.

There is quite a bit going on in the story, including several side plots having to do with Nami's past and how she ended up in prison. The first 75 minutes of the film are almost solely concerned with these flashbacks and her current hostessing. This is not a bad thing, but if you're expecting geysers of blood at every turn you might become slightly bored.

Then, in the final ten minutes, the film erupts in an orgy of violence. It's almost like the recent films of Takeshi Kitano, where everything is calm and peaceful before exploding in brief and brutal violence. The main difference is that here the small amount of violence follows the same style as Lady Snowblood, with the slashing and stabbing. One might also expect a fair amount of sex and nudity, much like Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion. However, almost all the nudity is discreet and only present in pinup posters on a wall.

From a production standpoint, Wandering Ginza Butterfly is very similar to other Japanese gangster films from the same time period. There are moments of stylish directing, such as the camera that searches the background until it finds the one person it wants to portray. Other than that everything merely exists to push the story along. Kaji has the physical presence and beauty to convincingly play Nami, and the other actors also turn in fine performances.

From a DVD standpoint the transfer is very well done. The Japanese mono soundtrack is present with optional English subtitles, and the picture is very clear and crisp, especially for an older foreign film.

This is definitely worth catching, especially for those hardcore fans of Meiko Kaji. Keep in mind, however, that it's not one of your standard pinky violence flicks; here the blood and nudity is kept fairly well under wraps. Regardless, it's short, sweet and climaxes with a payoff worthy of any fan of the genre.