Sex & Fury
Sex & Fury is a 1973 film from Japan, directed by Noribumi Suzuki, running 88 minutes. reelscum files it under pinky violence.
- Year
- 1973 · 1970s films
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Director
- Noribumi Suzuki
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (51/100)
Defined in the glossary: Pinky violence
The naked snow swordfight. Everyone remembers it; the rest is decent Meiji melodrama.
Everyone remembers the naked snow swordfight, in which Reiko Ike cuts down a room of attackers with nothing on, and it is as striking as its reputation. Around it is a Meiji-era tale of a gambler avenging her father, more sumptuous and ambitious than the usual pinky violence picture.
Norifumi Suzuki gives it real production values and a genuine melodramatic sweep, and Christina Lindberg appears as a foreign agent. It is one of the most visually accomplished films of the cycle. Tarantino borrowed from it liberally for Kill Bill.
Stylish, lurid and anchored by a genuine star turn.
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Written about
- Meiko Kaji and the art of not blinking
Toei hired her to headline prison quickies. She built the most-copied performance in Japanese genre cinema out of about forty lines of dialogue.
The cycle in depth
- Pinku eiga and the rules that shaped it
Pinku eiga is a Japanese trade category for cheap independent sex features, sized for small theatres and shot to fit Eirin's rule on what a body may show.
Filed alongside
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
Ito's second, and the most formally daring film in the whole category.
Girl Boss Guerilla
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Blind Beast
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Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
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Horrors of Malformed Men
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Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs
Toei's red-coated killer cop, and the blueprint for every lone avenging woman after her.
Lady Snowblood
Where Kill Bill got most of its ideas, including the snow.
Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter
Meiko Kaji before Toei, leading a girl gang through Nikkatsu's coolest delinquent picture.