Okatsu - The Killer
Director: Nobuo Nakagawa
Cast: Junko Miyazono, Reiko Ônobuta, Kô Nishimura, Kenji Imai, Yuriko Mishima and Wakayama Tomisaburo
The oppression and murder of poor farmers by the minions of a corrupt city commissioner begins this saga.. An old woman is saved a young swordswoman named Rui.
The old woman hides in a dojo where Okatsu is instructing fencing class. Okatsu is an excellent swordswoman and overshadows the clumsy real son of her adopted father.
The son (an unlucky gambling addict) knows Okatsu's prowess and abandons his father and dojo in anger with his pregnant wife but soon finds himself in trouble after he loses all his money during a crooked dice game.
Okatsu trades herself to the gambling den boss for her brother but the boss is in league with the local city commissioner who hates Okatsu's father for getting in the way of his evil ambition in the past. Okatsu's father then attempts to exchange himself so Okatsu can go free but the commissioner reneges and rapes Okatsu while her father is being beaten and stabbed to death.
Okatsu witnesses it all, escapes and returns to avenge her honor and father with the aide of Rui. Okatsu plans her revenge while the commissioner plans to have her caught by a bounty hunter played by Tomisaburo Wakayama.
1969 Color Wildscreen
Japanese with English subtitles
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