Blind Woman's Curse

1970 film

Teruo Ishii
Yoshida Sone^[1]

Produced by

Hideo Koi
Shiro Sasaki^[1]

Starring

Meiko Kaji
Hoki Tokuda
Makoto Sako

CinematographyShigeru Kitazumi^[1]Edited byOsamu Ionue^[1]Music byHajime Kaburagi^[1]

Production
company

Nikkatsu^[1]

Distributed byDainichi Eihai

Release date

20 June 1970 (1970-06-20) (Japan)

Running time

84 minutes^[1]CountryJapan

Blind Woman's Curse (Japanese: 怪談昇り竜, Kaidan Nobori Ryū, lit. Ghost Story Rising Dragon) is a 1970 Japanese ero guro yakuza film directed by Teruo Ishii.^[2]

Plot

Akemi (Kaji) 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 cat and the victim of the slashing go on to seek revenge on Akemi's gang, leaving a trail of dead yakuza girls with their dragon tattoos skinned from their bodies.^[3]

Cast

Meiko Kaji - Akemi Tachibana
Hoki Tokuda - Aiko Goda
Makoto Satō - Tani
Hideo Sunazuka - Kantaro
Shirō Otsuji - Senba-tatsu
Ryōhei Uchida as Aozora
Toru Abe - Dobashi
Tatsumi Hijikata - Ushimatsu, Hunchback dancer

Release

Blind Woman's Curse was released in Japan on 20 June 1970.^[1] It was distributed theatrically in the United States by Toho International on 6 August 1971.^[1]

Home Video

Blind Woman's Curse was released on DVD in Region One on 8 May 2007 by Discotech Media.^[4]

It was released on Blu-ray by Arrow Video in Region Two on 31 March 2014^[5] and in Region One on 21 April 2015.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Galbraith IV 1996, p. 384.
^ 石井輝男怒涛の30本勝負. 澁谷文化 (in Japanese). Retrieved 15 January 2021.
^ "Blind Woman's Curse". Arrow Films. 26 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ https://a.co/d/fqekwfQ
^ https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Blind-Womans-Curse-Blu-ray/88766/
^ https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Blind-Womans-Curse-Blu-ray/115821/