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Blind Woman's Curse

Special Edition, 2 Disc Blu-ray /DVD Edition

Meiko Kaji (Actor), Hoki Tokuda (Actor), Teruo Ishii (Director) Rated:
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Format: Blu-ray
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
IMDb6.5/10.0
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 A thrilling Yakuza film featuring eye-popping visuals, sensational fight sequences and the gorgeous Meiko Kaji (Lady Snowblood, Stray Cat Rock), in her first major role. 

 

 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 along with the eye-victim go on to pursue Akemi's gang in revenge, leaving a trail of dead Yakuza girls, their dragon tattoos skinned from their bodies. 

  A bizarre blend of the female Yakuza film and traditional Japanese ghost story, with a strong dash of grotesque-erotica (the same movement was a sensibility of Edogawa Rampo whose works were adapted by Ishii in Horrors of Malformed Men), Blind Woman's Curse is a delirious mash-up of classic genre tropes, of which Ishii was no stranger, having directed everything from Super Giant films to Biker movies! 

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A bizarre potpourri of ninkyo eiga yakuza movie, bakeneko ghost film and ero- grotesquery. --Midnighteye

One of the best examples of Pinky Horror. --10k Bullets

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 8.32 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 7120
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Teruo Ishii
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray, NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 25 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ April 21, 2015
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Meiko Kaji, Hoki Tokuda, Makoto Satô
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Arrow Video
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00RDT5OES
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings

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4.5 out of 5 stars
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A surreal yakuza horror film in the ero guro tradition ...
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A surreal yakuza horror film in the ero guro tradition ...
A surreal yakuza horror film in the ero guro tradition. Teruo Ishii, the king of cult, creates a lurid concoction of ghost cats, yakuza maidens, torture chambers and travelling sideshows set against the backdrop of feuding rival gangs. Meiko Kaji steps through the looking glass and its a bewildering experience.Blu-ray Review (2 disc)★★★☆☆Contains both the blu ray and dvd transfer.Reversible sleeve including both the original and newly commissioned art.Dark Water PostcardAudio commentary by Japanese cinema expert Jasper Sharp4 Nikkatsu studios trailers from the Stray Cat Rock seriesAn 18 page booklet with information about the transfer and featuring an insightful essay by Midnight Eye founder Tom Mes.
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Atsushi Kiuchi
5.0 out of 5 stars Product was in excellent-like new- condition. Unblemished.
Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2023
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The product arrived on time despite the distance travelled.The packaging was excellent and protected the DVD. There were no scratches-both audio and visual- quality were like new.
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Clinton Enlow
5.0 out of 5 stars Blind Woman's Curse
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2007
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Sure I love serious Japanese films like Seven Samurai, but sometimes its cool to sit back and watch an over the top yakuza horror gorefest like Blind Woman's Curse. It doesn't pander to any certain crowd with pretensions, features over the top action, blood, female yakuza, a freakshow with loads of naked women screaming children and an old guy who seems to be cooking human remains all on the outside of the show and the clencher in a retarded hunchback that likes to skin people just for their dragon tatoos. Yeah thats prime entertainment to me.

Curse is the story of Tachibana Akemi, the young heir apparent of the Tachibana gang slowly coming to fight the Aozora family. The film begins with a showdown between Akemi and a certain group, in which she accidentally blinds the titular blind woman. From then on She feels cursed, a trait she fears is spreading to all of those around her. She comes back to her family unwilling to fight the Aozora group who attack the Tachibana group with a little help from a turncoat spy Tatsu who wants to bed Chie Chan the daughter of a former Tachibana member who now runs a restaraunt. Into this conflict comes the blind woman a performer who's overcome her disability seeking revenge for her disfigurement at Akemi's hands. Everythings convoluted to the Nth degree in this story and I'm sure I'm leaving something out somewhere in that plot description.

Just everything in here entertains from the decent to the over the top acting. After this film and the two Lady Snowblood films Meiko Kaji shows why she was one of the top female actresses of the seventies having a hard beauty that adds to her performance. And the over the top art direction and photography just adds to the sweetness on the icing of this cake. This film isn't great art, but that doesn't keep it from being something more, great entertainment something not even the most serious of films today can achieve.
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Steven
5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining Yakuza/Horror Mashup
Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2020
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Very entertaining horror/yakuza mash-up. I had not seen many (perhaps any) yakuza movies with female leads, and I've been binging on them lately.
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Victoria Rose
5.0 out of 5 stars Really Enjoyable.
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2011
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Seller was prompt. Material arrived when predicted. Material was in excellent shape as advertised. Material was as adveristed, good olde kung-fu movies. I am not an expert, except in what I like. I can see why this was the model for Lucy Lu in Kill Bill. These are fun movies. I will use this seller again.
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Horatio Ramses Taylor
3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining weirdness
Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2016
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Excellent restoration and packaging, as can be expected of virtually any Arrow release. This is an odd film starring Meiko Kaji (of Lady Snowblood fame) as the cursed Yakuza leader. Not nearly as much action as Snowblood or, say, the Shogun Assassin/Lone Wolf and Cub films, but plenty of entertaining weirdness going on here.
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Luke Tipton
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Release from Arrow
Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2015
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Great restoration of a weird little genre film, starring the great Meiko Kaji.

It’s a bit of a hodgepodge of genres and styles; a yakuza revenge cum black cat ghost story (sort of) with lots of dumb slapstick (which falls pretty flat, I might add), and some “grotesque erotica” thrown in as well. None of it completely works together, or congeals into a coherent plot, with wild tangential threads abandoned mid-film for no reason.

And yet…

There is still something very compelling about “Blind Woman’s Curse.” Lots of weird, atmospheric moments, haunting images, and splatter. This is a film I will be revisiting with the commentary track. The final confrontation between Meiko Kaji’s yakuza boss, and the titular Blind Woman is great cinema, particularly with that exchange around a sword slash across the eyes of a dragon tattoo.
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Paula McElroy
5.0 out of 5 stars compelling and beautiful. I LOVE this movie
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2015
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Gruesomely violent, compelling and beautiful. I LOVE this movie!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2016
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excellent
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Marc’79
5.0 out of 5 stars Blunds Womens Curse
Reviewed in Spain on June 12, 2021
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Great!!!...
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Pixiu88888
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on September 10, 2018
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LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the beautiful and talented Meiko Kaji in this film!
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X 27
5.0 out of 5 stars très bon
Reviewed in France on August 23, 2018
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Le générique d'ouverture est efficace.
Pas de temps mort tout au long du film, on ne voit pas les minutes défilés ..... Meiko Kaji au top comme d'habitude.
Des bonus intéressant, mais vraiment trop court, c'est le seul bémol de cette édition.
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CONTINENTAL OP
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 7, 2018
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Yuh
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Stefan B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good customer service
Reviewed in Japan on June 15, 2022
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Unfortunately the product arrived very late. It seems that the delay was according custom issues, so it was not the fault of the seller.
The communication with the seller was very smooth and easy going.
The product itself is awesome. Nice Blu Ray with the awesome Kaji Meiko.
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