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Plot Summary:
Toshiya Fujita brings the five film Stray Cat Rock series to a highly enjoyable end. Like his previous instalment, Wild Jumbo, Beat ’71 is an easy going youth drama that does not follow Yasuharu Hasebe’s wild gang film path. Instead Fujita deals with social issues. The film follows a hippie community lead by Yoshitaro (Yoshio Harada). They decide to leave their trailer in Shinjuku and travel to countryside by bicycle to save their friend Furiko (Meiko Kaji) who has been falsely accused for murder. The real killer – although it was mainly self defense – is Furiko’s boyfried Takaaki (Takeo Chii) 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.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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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.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: crime drama, psychedelic
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 817
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 80 min
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In the 1970s, the Japanese youth emancipation also found it's way into the yakuza (crime) societies. A Girl Boss may have a choice between bikes, and between boyfriends. But she has to defend her choices the hard way, as her triumph and power over the girls' gang is questioned by her female rivals, and the all powerful Yakuza Boss. She inspires loyalty to her girls, and to men to the extent of many of them literally giving their lives for her - in a world of knife and gun fighting, bike and car chasing, and violent death.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult film
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 122
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 148
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Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
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IMDB Votes: 88
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Reiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local Yakuza mob. Having outlived his usefulness to the gang he is murdered and Reiko is gang raped, leading her to attempt a knife attack on the Yakuza boss (Ryoji Hayama) at a swank nightclub. Failing to kill him she ends up in prison, where she befriends a crew of other malcontents (including Yumiko Katayama and Chiyoko Kazama) and meets the Yakuza boss's girlfriend (Miki Sugimoto). Upon release Reiko reassembles her mob and launches a Machiavellian scheme to engineer a gang war between Hayama's Oba Industries and the formerly dominant Hamayasu Clan. The rival gangs begin killing each other off and Reiko works her way closer to her ultimate vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult film
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Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter (1970)
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 859
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 29
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Night of the Juggler (1980)
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An ex New York cop is desperate to find his kidnapped daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
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Tiger Cage 3 (1991)
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Earnest cop James (Cheung Kwok-leung) works for the Commercial Crime Bureau and is keeping a sharp eye on slick business man Lee Siu-pong (Wong Kam-kong). When his business endeavours garner the attention of an enterprising extortionist, Lee has the blackmailer killed. Fearing that the incriminating document has fallen into the hands of James, Lee does the only thing that a red-blooded criminal might -- he kidnaps the cop's girlfriend Suki (Sharla Cheung Man). When James gives chase, he finds himself horribly burned in an explosion detonated by Lee. After months of painful recovery, James dons a silver mask and sets out for bloody, gut-wrenching vengeance. Meanwhile, Suki, who has become Lee's unwilling mistress, plots for the thug's gory demise as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: anthology, grindhouse, banned
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 51
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 961
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Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shonusuke, a radical set on murdering prominent politician Kurokawa and Christina, an American spy posing as a gambler.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
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IMDB Votes: 2000
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