Best movies of Meiko Kaji

Actors : Masaaki Daimon, Meiko Kaji, Miyoko Akaza, Toshio Kurosawa,
Directors : Toshiya Fujita,

A young girl is born and raised to be an instrument of revenge.

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Isao Hashizume, Masami Nagasawa, Yukiya Kitamura,
Directors : Miwa Nishikawa,

A middle-aged former yakuza is released from prison after thirteen years where he was placed for murder. He is struggling to adapt to society and freedom, find a job and communicate ...

Actors : Rie Yokoyama, Meiko Kaji, Yôko Mihara, Yayoi Watanabe,
Directors : Shun'ya Itô,

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Yoshio Harada, Jûzô Itami, Kazuko Yoshiyuki,
Directors : Toshiya Fujita,

Lady Snowblood is caught in the politics of early 20th century Japan.

Actors : Kayoko Shiraishi, Meiko Kaji, Yukie Kagawa, Fumio Watanabe,
Directors : Shun'ya Itô,

After spending a year in solitary confinement, Matsu escapes from prison with six more convicts, followed by the guards led by the vengeful warden who wants her dead at all costs.

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Shin'ichi Chiba, Bunta Sugawara, Shingo Yamashiro,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

A young criminal joins a yakuza family to kill the gangsters who beat him up, but falls in love with his boss' widow niece, piling up enemies and corpses along his wayward way.

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Ichirô Zaitsu, Keiju Kobayashi, Nobuko Otowa,
Directors : Kaneto Shindô,

Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Yayoi Watanabe, Reisen Ri, Mikio Narita,
Directors : Shun'ya Itô,

Matsu is sheltered by an incestuous prostitute on her run from the police, her ex-prison mate and a cop whose arm she hacked off.

Actors : Yumi Kanei, Hiroshi Tsukata, Masakazu Tamura, Meiko Kaji,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

Once again on the lam, Matsu is helped by a strip club worker who holds a grudge against the detective who's trying to find her.

Actors : Tetsuya Watari, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuo Umemiya, Hideo Murota,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

When a cop is transferred to a new precinct it is obvious that the area's yakuza mob are not dealing with just another policeman. The cop is bent on results and is not immune to becoming ...

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Rikiya Yasuoka, Jirô Okazaki, Tatsuya Fuji,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

A street girl gang clashes with racist local gangsters after one of the girls starts dating an Afro-Japanese man.

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Hoki Tokuda, Hideo Sunazuka, Makoto Satô,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

The head of a yakuza gang is being trailed by a mysterious, vengeful blind woman.

Actors : Kôji Wada, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuya Fuji, Akiko Wada,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

A wandering tough biker girl aids a female delinquent gang in their battles against an all-male Seiyu group over a fixed boxing match.

Actors : Bunjaku Han, Takeo Chii, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuya Fuji,
Directors : Toshiya Fujita,

Five freewheeling friends conjure up a plan to rob 30 million yen from a religious movement.

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Noriko Kurosawa, Eiji Gô, Tatsuya Fuji,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

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.

Actors : Takeo Chii, Meiko Kaji, Yoshio Harada, Tatsuya Fuji,
Directors : Toshiya Fujita,

The series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and with the help of some hippies she strives to be re-united.

Actors : Akiko Koyama, Tsunehiko Watase, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuo Umemiya,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

Nami is an ex-convict who becomes a hostess to support a sick woman who bailed her out. In doing so, she gets involved in a local gangster's scheme to take over the bar she works for.

Actors : Fujio Suga, Meiko Kaji, Shin'ichi Chiba, Shingo Yamashiro,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

Nami(played by Meiko Kaji) returns to Tokyo to find the man who killed her father 13 years ago. On the way she saves a young woman named Hanae who's father had sold her for prostitution. ...

Actors : Mieko Harada, Meiko Kaji, Natsuko Kahara, Mihoko Nakagawa,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world, when her grandmother dies.

Actors : Ryôhei Uchida, Tsunehiko Watase, Meiko Kaji, Hideo Murota,
Directors : Sadao Nakajima,

Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro Katagiri is up to no good with his gangster friends and ends up making off with all their ...