Blind Woman's Curse (2-Disc Special Edition) [Blu-ray + DVD]

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.

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.

Others have already elaborated on the plot. I will tell you that this movie is entertaining. It blends elements of samurai style action with horror. It's a good entertaining film with plenty of suspense and a fine amount of action to please viewers. (This is assuming that your attention span is longer than 1 minute.)Meiko Kaji is of course the main character. What's interesting is that a track is played at a point during the movie and you can tell that it's Ms. Kaji Meiko lending her vocal talents to that song.Quite an enjoy flick. Check it out!

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.

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.

Update to previous review , Contacted Arrow Video , they are aware of the issue and have offered to replaced dvd. Go Arrow! Looking forward to purchasing many Arrow Video releases!

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.

A good watchable movie, that has a convoluted mismash of a plot line. First of the Yakuza-horror films.The plot has already been describded so I won't repeat it. The movie leaves some important subplots hanging, or has you asking 'why was that even in the movie'. i.e. 'gas man'.Watch it, eat popcorn, you're done.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the beautiful and talented Meiko Kaji in this film!

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.

海外Blu-rayなので、気を付けて買いましょう。クライテリオンの修羅雪姫を見てから梶芽衣子の迫力に圧倒され他のも見たくなり購入しました。残念ながら届いたのは欧州版であり、PAL方式なため見れませんでしたね。安い値段のはイギリス発送とかドイツ発送となっているんで、ほとんどが欧州版だと思います。Amazonの出品者も、どこの国販売でリージョンと国コードの有無は記載を義務づけて欲しいところですね。説明不足な出品は全てが悪質と考え、よく調べましょう。以下、追記です。楽天で北米版Blu-rayと記載されてるのを6千円ぐらいで購入し直しました。パッケージは欧州版と全く同じなんで不安はありましたが、見事日本のレコーダーで再生出来ました!映像は綺麗で音声もモノラルとなってるわりには聞き取りやすく、英語字幕もちゃんと消せて収録音量も小さくありません。流石にクライテリオンの修羅雪姫と比べてしまうと劣るというか、明るさが強く感じて昼間のシーンは画面が白い印象を受けました。ただそれは元のフィルムの可能性があるので何とも言えませんし、どのシーンもはっきり認識出来る綺麗さです。わざわざ買って見比べるつもりはありませんが、日本はリマスターDVDのみで、リマスターとは言えSD画質ですから白ボヤけ無く見れるってのは冒険して買う価値がありました。

I am a big fan of meiko kaji...Loved her other movies ,and her singing

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