Watch movies with Meiko Kaji

Tree Without Leaves

Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.

NR

7.5

1986 105 min Play

6.4

Yakuza Graveyard

A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice.

NR

6.4

1976 Action 97 min Play

6.3

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.

NR

6.3

1974 Action 89 min Play

6.1

Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701’s Grudge Song

Nami (Meiko Kaji) is once again on the run from the law but is saved by an old classmate who works at a strip club. Through a subsequent conversation they discover they both have a score to settle with a particular crooked cop. However, Nami has doubts about ever trusting a man.

NR

6.1

1973 Crime 89 min Play

7.1

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable

Following her successful prison break, Scorpion begins this third episode in the series hiding out in a brothel. Her prostitute friend tries to keep her identity secret, but the brothel's madam discovers that Scorpion is the ex-girlfriend of the vice officer who killed her lover.

NR

7.1

1973 Crime 92 min Play

7.6

Lady Snowblood

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.

NR

7.6

1973 Action 97 min Play

7.3

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

Matsu, known to the prisoners as Scorpion, is locked away in the bowels of the prison as revenge for disrupting the smooth operation of the prison and for her disfiguring attack on the warden. Granted a one day reprieve due to the visit of a dignitary, she takes advantage and attacks the warden again. This leads to more brutal punishment and humiliation. But the punishment gives her an oppurtunity to escape along with six other female prisoners. Their surreal flight from prison pits the ...

NR

7.3

1972 Action 90 min Play

7.1

Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion

After being cruelly set up by a crooked detective named Sugimi (Isao Natsuyagi), whom she loved, Nami Matsushima (aka Matsu the Scorpion) (Meiko Kaji) is sentenced to do hard time in a women's prison, which is run by sadistic and horny male guards. There are 700 other prisoners, making Matsu number 701. Her crime was making a failed attempt to stab Sugimi on the steps of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Headquarters because he used her to win favor with the Yakuza. While in prison she meets ...

NR

7.1

1972 Crime 89 min Play

6

Stray Cat Rock: Beat ’71

The film follows a hippie community lead by Yoshitaro. They decide to leave their trailer in Shinjuku and travel to countryside by bicycle to save their friend Furiko who has been falsely accused for murder. The real killer – although it was mainly self defense – is Furiko’s boyfried Takaaki who is being controlled by his politician father. Takaaki would rather live free as a hippie, but his father is forcing him to become a businessman.

NR

6

1971 Action 87 min Play

6.5

Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter

Mako and her girl friends enter a dispute with rival street gangsters The Eagles, a band of racist macho pigs led by the evil Baron, who hate half-breeds (descendents of afro-American and Japanese couples). When one of the girls start dating a half-breed, they start a terror campaign to take all of them out of town. Mako and her gang fight back, helping their new friend Kazuma find his long gone sister.

NR

6.5

1970 Action 86 min Play

5.9

Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo

A group of five friends, also known as the Pelican Gang, spends time hanging out in the city, driving around in their all-terrain buggy car and listening to psychedelic jazz fusion when one of them is approached by a mysterious horse-riding girl named Asako (Bunjaku Han) who suggests they rob 30 million yen from a religious movement called Seikyo Gakkei. The Pelicans – C-ko, Taki, Ganishin, Jiro and Debo – accept the challenge, but things are not as easy as they may initially seem.

NR

5.9

1970 Action 84 min Play

6.1

Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal

Two Japanese men help a Vietnam war deserter escape from Japan for Sweden. They plan to fund the escape by selling LSD pills. After word of the drug deal gets spread around they find themselves fending off rival gangs.

NR

6.1

1970 Action 82 min Play

6.5

Blind Woman’s Curse

Akemi 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.

NR

6.5

1970 Action 85 min Play

6

Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss

A wandering tough biker girl aids a female delinquent gang in their battles against an all-male Seiyu group over a fixed boxing match.

NR

6

1970 Action 81 min Play