Like the Italians around that same era, the Japanese exploitation cinema industry didn't waste any time, money or effort during the 1970's. "Female Yakuza Tale", the sequel to "Sex and Fury" was released in the very same year as the original. Reiko Ike, the ravishing and slightly exhibitionist lead actress, even appeared in six different films that same year and – according to her filmography - made a total of twenty films in a span of barely eight years (between 1971 and 1979). That's very impressive, to say the least, especially considering the fact these movie don't feel rushed or unfinished at all, like often the case with their European counterparts.
Fortunately enough for us fans, the sequel isn't just a quick and derivative rehash of the original. Like the different entries the righteously acclaimed "Female Prisoner: Scorpion" series, the sequel is a completely new adventure with other themes and – thanks to the change in director from Norifumi Suzuki to Teruo Ishii – there's also another type of stylishness and flamboyance. After extracting vengeance on her father's murderers, and killing a whole bunch of other bastards in the process, you would think our heroine Ochô Inoshika could now finally lead a happy and peaceful life. Think again, because this time around she plots to almost single-handedly bring down a whole network of drugs and prostitution. And these two crimes are really inseparable as the sleazy male gangsters use the prostitutes' gouged vaginae to smuggle the drugs. The modus operandi is integrally and quite graphically illustrated a couple of times and really has to be seen in order to be believed. I swear, only in Japan they can come up with deranged stuff like this and simultaneously find aspiring young actresses to comply. When Ochô is wrongfully mistaken for one of the prostitutes, she's abducted, abused and humiliated. She swears revenge and, with a little help from a mysteriously sexy and praying woman, Ochô gradually mobilizes a whole army (and you make take that literally) of girls to unleash a war.
Although I've yet to check out a lot of acclaimed titles, "Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition and Torture" is bound to be one of the purest and sub- genre defining Pinky Violence movies out there! It's literally chock- full of gratuitous nudity (during the opening title sequence already), mildly stunning "crotch-gouge" absurdity and sword-wielding splatter. The climax in particular is perplexing, with dozens and dozens of girls stripping off their robes before battling against the other sex. And they're bound to lose, of course, because every single man depicted in this film is perverted, abusive and exaggeratedly chauvinist pig! There's only one "good" male character in the film, and he's a bit of a silly loser who makes jokes like "your pussy is going to catch a cold". I love feminism.
