This is the sequel to SEX AND FURY, with Reiko Ike reprising her role as Inoshika Ocho, but a different director taking the reins. Ike's presence provides the main and perhaps only real continuity between the movies, because FEMALE YAKUZA TALE departs dramatically from the first, both stylistically and story-wise.
The opening credits foreshadow some of the strange turns this movie takes. In the rain, Ocho battles a gang of generic assailants with her umbrella. Somehow, she loses all her clothes, but keeps on fighting naked. It made me sit up and take notice, and it superficially recalls her nude fight in the snow garden in SEX AND FURY, but this is far more gratuitous on every count. The fight is a self-contained set-piece with no narrative point, and the nudity, though welcome, comes out of left field.
As the movie proper begins, Ocho's backstory (or maybe rather what Tarantino would call her "mythology") from the first film is simply dropped and another presented in its place to illuminate her relationships to a completely different cast of characters, to a degree that I found jarring. The two backstories are actually more complementary than contradictory, but no attempt is made to link them or to establish any continuity.
Ocho arrives in a new place, and immediately finds herself knocked out, molested, and set up to take the rap for a "crotch gouge" murder (evidently the most recent in a series). It turns out that there's a ring of prostitutes smuggling drugs in their vaginas, and Ocho's been mistaken for a mule. Naturally, as soon as she's able, she sets off on a rampage of revenge.
The sexploitation factor is ratcheted way, way up here. Numerous scenes depict male Yakuza inserting and removing the drugs. The scenes aren't explicit, but they are coarsely suggestive. In one, a Yakuza complains about the smell, and in another, several Yakuza bet on which girl can accomodate the largest object. The climax is a preposterous set-piece in which a legion of naked prostutites battle the male Yakuza. The scene is played for zany camp rather than the arresting fusion of bloodletting with Ike's sex appeal, from the first movie.
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All the movies contain lots of nudity and gore
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