Sex & Fury
Sex & Fury is a 1973 Japanese ero guro ''jidaigeki film directed by Norifumi Suzuki and starring Reiko Ike.
It was followed by Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition and Torture'' in the same year where Reiko Ike reprises her role as Kyoko Kasai/Ochō Inoshika.
Plot
In 1886 Japan's Meiji era, Kyoko Kasai, a young girl, and her father, are walking along a covered pathway when she chases after a ball rolling by. While they are apart, three men kill her father. The girl runs back to him as he dies, and sees he is clutching three blood-soaked animal gaming cards in his hand. The cards feature drawings of ino, sika and ocho, respectively, potential clues regarding the killers.Nineteen years later, in 1905, we see a young adult Kyoko has changed her name to "Ochō Inoshika"—inspired by the animal cards held by her father as he died. She gets by as a petty criminal, pickpocketing and gambling. She has also learned vital skills in martial arts, swordsmanship, firearms, and other self-defense tactics.
After helping to hide a fleeing anarchist—wanted for attempted assassination of the new leader of a powerful yakuza syndicate —Ochō becomes involved in international intrigue while searching for the sister of a man whose death she witnessed in a gambling-den, as well as finding the men responsible for killing her father. A British agent, along with his latest recruit, the sexy Christina, is hoping to plunge Japan into a second opium war, further complicating Ochō's attempts at vengeance.
Cast
- Reiko Ike as Ochō Inoshika/Kyoko Kasai
- Christina Lindberg as Christina
- Akemi Negishi as Shitateya Ogin
- Ryōko Ema as Omiya
- Yōko Hori as Okinu
- Naomi Oka as Okoi
- Katsumasa Uchida as Gentarô Kanô
- Rena Ichinose as Osayo Igirisu
- Tatsuo Endō
- Yōko Mihara as Yaeji