Synopsis
Sex and Fury (1973) is a Japanese crime-action film by Norifumi Suzuki that you can watch online on iFILM. Set in early-1900s Japan, it follows Ocho Inoshika — gambler, pickpocket and avenger — as she hunts the three men who killed her policeman father.
The clue she carries is brutal in its simplicity. Each killer wears a tattoo on his back: a boar, a deer, a butterfly. Ocho tracks those marks through gambling dens and yakuza turf, sheltering a hunted radical named Shunosuke along the way and crossing paths with Christina, a European spy working her own angle under the cover of a card player. Reiko Ike plays Ocho; cult Swedish star Christina Lindberg plays Christina.
This is prime Toei "pinky violence" — 88 minutes that throw eroticism, revenge and swordplay together without apology. Its centerpiece, a naked Ocho cutting down a swarm of attackers in the falling snow, later echoed straight into Tarantino's work. Lean, stylish and unapologetically pulpy, it's a treat for fans of 1970s Japanese exploitation cinema. Stream Sex and Fury (1973) online on iFILM.
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