Criminal Woman: Killing Melody
1973, Japanese. Directed by Atsushi Mihori.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 27 October 1973
- Original title
- 前科おんな殺し節
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Hirō Matsuda, Fumio Kōnami
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Criminal Woman: Killing Melody runs 83 minutes (1h 23m).
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Criminal Woman: Killing Melody isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 27 October 1973. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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If you liked Criminal Woman: Killing Melody, try Yakuza Graveyard, The City of Lost Souls, Rainy Dog.
Who directed Criminal Woman: Killing Melody?
Criminal Woman: Killing Melody (1973) was directed by Atsushi Mihori and stars Reiko Ike, Miki Sugimoto, Yumiko Katayama.