Meiko Kaji Movies

Lady Snowblood

77/100

A young girl is born and raised to be an instrument of revenge.

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

73/100

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

64/100

Lady Snowblood is caught in the politics of early 20th century Japan.

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

72/100

After spending a year in solitary confinement, Matsu escapes from prison with six more convicts, followed by the guards led by the vengeful warden who wants her dead at all costs.

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable

71/100

Matsu is sheltered by an incestuous prostitute on her run from the police, her ex-prison mate and a cop whose arm she hacked off.

Hiroshima Death Match

77/100

A young criminal joins a yakuza family to kill the gangsters who beat him up, but falls in love with his boss' widow niece, piling up enemies and corpses along his wayward way.

Blind Woman's Curse

67/100

The head of a yakuza gang is being trailed by a mysterious, vengeful blind woman.

Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song

65/100

Once again on the lam, Matsu is helped by a strip club worker who holds a grudge against the detective who's trying to find her.

Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter

64/100

A street girl gang clashes with racist local gangsters after one of the girls starts dating an Afro-Japanese man.

Yakuza Graveyard

73/100

When a cop is transferred to a new precinct it is obvious that the area's yakuza mob are not dealing with just another policeman. The cop is bent on results and is not immune to becoming ... See full summary »

Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss

63/100

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

Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo

62/100

Five freewheeling friends conjure up a plan to rob 30 million yen from a religious movement.

Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal

64/100

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.

Ginchô wataridori

69/100

Nami, a young woman, is released from the prison after serving 3 years for killing a man. She becomes...

Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71

60/100

The series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and with the help of some hippies she strives to be re-united.

Gincho nagaremono mesuneko bakuchi

67/100

Nami(played by Meiko Kaji) returns to Tokyo to find the man who killed her father 13 years ago. On the way she saves a young woman named Hanae who's father had sold her for prostitution. ... See full summary »

Double Suicide of Sonezaki

69/100

A poor merchant and a prostitue plan to suicide together after being pressured and betrayed by their surroundings.

Jeans Blues: No Future

70/100

Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro Katagiri is up to no good with his gangster friends and ends up making off with all their ... See full summary »

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga

59/100

A compilation edition of the first four films in Kinji Fukasaku's violent yakuza saga, previously screened only as part of a limited Japanese theatrical release in 1980 and on the Toei cable channel.

There Was a War When I Was a Child

Weeks before the end of WW2, a boy finds an American girl hidden in the barn of his grandmother's house. The girl turns out to be his cousin, and they become friends. But the Japanese police is informed of the girl's presence.

Lullaby of the Earth

77/100

Step on the Gas

72/100

Hangyaku no Melody

48/100

Retsuden shumei tobaku

50/100

Tantei Kamizu Kyôsuke no satsujin suiri 8: Izu Shimoda-kaigan ni akai satsui ga hashiru