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Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

As Lady Snowblood was for Meiko Kaji, Sex & Fury provided Reiko Ike with her iconic role as a scorned master gambler and pickpocket extraordinaire(..old habits die hard, she even picks from those that befriend her) who wields a mean sword. Ike is Ochô Inoshika, a vengeful young woman, orphaned after her detective father was slain due to a cover up because of how his investigation threatened the political futures of Kurokawa(Seizaburô Kawazu)and his partner Iwakura, two Yakuza gangsters about to benefit during a tumultuous time in their country, Japan becoming a global power. Ochô is searching for those who carry the tattoos of the cards held in her dead father's bloody hands, joining forces with revolutionary Shonusuke(Tadashi Naruse)whose father was also set up and ruined by the two corrupt scoundrels. Other sub-plots emerge, such as Ochô's mother actual involvement in her father's murder and a British agent(Christina Lindberg)willing to endure a great deal in order to see lost love, Shonusuke once again.As you'd come to expect, Sex & Fury delivers a great deal to those who seek out films about revenge and the price one pays to get it. Ike has two major swordfight showdowns against an army of men. One occurs early on as she wipes out a host of goons under a lecherous gambling house businessman who uses underhanded tactics to steal from his customers, attempting to besiege her while taking a bath, Ochô actually upends them while naked! The finale, of course, has Ochô moving through Kurokawa's endless supply of men, suffering major harm, in order to exact her rage. You have Lindberg in two major sex scenes, one where her leader ravages her for not shooting Shonusuki, another with Kurokawa's geisha as he watches in exasperation, soon joining them. Her doomed tragic love affair with Shonusuke is given melodramatic weight as is Ochô's dedicated pursuit to vanquish those who took her father. Her method of executing Iwakura(..what she lotions her body with isn't exactly perfume)is one of the most erotic I've ever witnessed. Limited hacked limbs which is a minor disappointment, but a great deal of blood all over the place as Ochô slices and dices a large number of disposable hired thugs. Lindberg has never been lensed as beautifully and her character is put through a great deal..her abuse towards Ochô during the torture sequence in a church may hearken many back to Norifumi Suzuki's nunsploitation classic, School of the Holy Beast in the use of Christian iconography during a depraved act of violence towards a naked female. Those familiar with pink films featuring Ike are familiar with heroines such as hers often chained or roped into a bound position as their bodies are whipped and throttled. The outfit Lindberg is costumed for her torture of Ike is quite stunning..where Suzuki came up with that shows just how his perverted mind worked, but boy it sure is effective! Not as much sword-fighting as you'd expect, but enough graphic violence to satisfy those who search for films like Sex & Fury.

Attacked as she was bathing, Ochô was forced to defend herself against a group intent on her death - outside in the snow! Her magnificent swordplay was enhanced by her nakedness, and soon her creamy white breasts were stained in blood. Creamy white breasts appear in this film more often than swords.There are familiar faces for viewers of pinky violence films like Girl Boss Guerilla and the nunsploitation film School of the Holy Beast (Yuki - Rie Saotome). The director of this film wrote and directed both.Christina gets more action than anyone; even girl-on-girl with Jun Midorikawa.Yuki manages to get herself into a situation where she is raped by Iwakura and made into a nympho by some magic cream. He is soon to get his in a most clever way, when Ochô finds out he was one of the three men responsible for her father's murder.There is even some nunsploitation in this film as Ochô goes after the second murderer. Ochô is captured by the nun bodyguards, taken to a convent and severely whipped. It is here that she learns the identity of the third murderer - a shocking surprise.Toshiro Mifune never looked so dashing as Ochô in her final battle. Weakened by the torture and with two bullets in her, she managed to spill buckets of blood in pursuit of her objective.Brilliant cinematography in this pinky violence classic.

The blurb on the back of the DVD claims that this film "inspired" Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill". While there were no doubt any number of female martial-arts revenge films that probably "inspired" that recent Hollywood blockbuster (i.e. the "Female Scorpion" series, the "Lady Snowblood" series, "Zero Woman, Red Handcuffs") the opening fight scene of this movie does look A LOT like the fight scene at the end of "Kill Bill Volume 1". And while it's not as elaborate as the one in "Kill Bill" and certainly doesn't have Hollywood-level production values, it's more impressive in the sense that actress Reiko Ikke does the whole thing bare-ass naked! (And call me crazy, but I prefer a naked, nubile Japanese girl to a fully-clothed, anorexic-looking Uma Thurman). Ikke's character is seeking revenge on three yakuza with animal tattoos on their backs who are responsible for the death of her father, and she's willing do anything (including putting poison on her own delectable body for one of the yakuza to unwittingly lick off)in order to get it.What really sets this apart from other Japanase female revenge films, however, is the added presence of Swedish sex star Christina Lindberg (whose most famous Swedish film "They Call Her One Eye" was also a big influence on "Kill Bill"). While Ikke splits her time evenly between fight scenes and sex scenes, Lindberg packs a mean pistol, but is principally here for the sex, which as always the voluptuous Scandanavian does very well. Hilariously, Lindberg's character is supposed to be a "British" spy, even though when she tries to speak English, her accent is even more awkward and stilted than pidgin English of the Japanese guy who plays her boyfriend (but each time she disrobes, I'm sure you'll find it in your heart to forgive her).The plot of this is rather non-sensical, and people expecting a more traditional martial arts flick might be irritated by all the sexual digressions. But if you're at all like me and you don't really care that much for martial arts/revenge films in general, this one also has some very nice bonus features.

Walking underneath a series of torii gates with her father, a young Kyoko witnesses the death of her father when unknown culprits stab him to death. However, before he dies he picks up three cards depicting the images of a boar, a deer, and a butterfly. With only this scant information to aid her in identifying her father's killers, Kyoko changes her name to Inoshika Ocho and lives the next 20 years of her life honing skills in gambling and pick pocketing.One day at a gambling house owned by a seedy man named Imamura, a dealer is accused of cheating and is killed by its patrons. However, before he dies he tells Ocho that Imamura was the one who told him to cheat and he asks her to take 500 yen, this movie takes place in 1905, to purchase his sister back from a prostitution house in Asakusa. That night, while bathing, Ocho is attacked by Imamura and his goons, so the viewer is treated with the image of a totally nude Ocho, the actress Ike Reiko was 19 or 20 at the time this film was made and was quite nubile and bouncy at the time, slicing apart Imamura and his men in a montage of blood, naked flesh, severed limbs, and snow with early 1970s psychedelic rock playing in the background.Ocho eventually arrives in Asakusa and, along with communicating with her foster mom and her "sisters", eventually finds Yuki, the dead man's sister, but her purchaser, a business man named Iwakura is unwilling to let go of his new virgin, deflowering virgins is his hobby after all. However, he is willing to give up Yuki if Ocho can defeat a foreign gambler, Swedish model Christina Lindberg, but if she loses Iwakura will get both Yuki and Ocho. Christina does well at first, but after the party is attacked by her former lover Shunosuke, who bears a grudge against Iwakura and the politician Kurokawa, her mind is filled with images of their love-making and she loses the match. However, during this time Iwakura has intercourse with Yuki and later the heartbroken girl informs Ocho that the old pervert has a tattoo of a deer on his back. Finding one of her father's murderers, Ocho embarks on a quest for revenge during which she will have to face all sorts of adversaries, including switchblade-wielding nuns and gangsters.During the 1950s cinema was king in Japan. Millions of film viewers flocked to thousands upon thousands of theaters. However, during the 1960s television and its all encompassing grasp took hold of the country and film studios began to close and many film directors such as Kobayashi Masaaki and Kurosawa Akira had difficulty funding their films. Instead films filled with sex and violence, Roman Porn or Pink Films, became the standard. Once respected film studios such as Nikkatsu started to churn out one skin flick after the other. With limited budgets and limited filming schedules, these films were quickly produced, consumed by the audience, and completely forgotten. However, some of these films, such as this film, Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs, the Female Prisoner Scorpion series, have made more of a lasting impact that can be seen in the films in such directors as Miike Takashi.Sex and Fury is of course filled with violence. Severed limbs fly about and blood sprays all over the walls. Ocho must endure being chained up and whipped by Christina, bondage and S&M scenes are quite common in these films, while her tormentors look on. There is of course a lot of sex also, including a lesbian sex scene between Christina and a servant of Kurokawa's named Shinobu. Add to this mixture of sex and violence a soundtrack of rock music that would please The Lemon Pipers and Strawberry Alarm Clock, Sex and Fury is an enjoyable, quick watch. I mean with switchblade-wielding nuns how could you go wrong?