Rope and Skin

Rope and Skin

70 mins | July 21, 1979

Okoma (literally, Red Cherry) was a woman gambler until she retired from the yakuza world. Two years later, she returns home, and finds that the big boss has been assassinated and his daughter is having trouble keeping things in line against the rival gang headed by the men who killed her father. Okoma decides to avenge her former boss and help his daughter, a former friend of hers. She recruits her own gang, starting with an expert knife-fighter, her former lover. After a fight, the new Gang Leader captures and tortures Okoma sadistically.

Rope and Skin

70 mins | July 21, 1979

Rope and Skin
Okoma (literally, Red Cherry) was a woman gambler until she retired from the yakuza world. Two years later, she returns home, and finds that the big boss has been assassinated and his daughter is having trouble keeping things in line against the rival gang headed by the men who killed her father. Okoma decides to avenge her former boss and help his daughter, a former friend of hers. She recruits her own gang, starting with an expert knife-fighter, her former lover. After a fight, the new Gang Leader captures and tortures Okoma sadistically.
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers Nikkatsu Corporation
Original title 団鬼六 縄と肌
Directors Shōgorō Nishimura
Writers Oniroku Dan, Isao Matsumoto

Cast

Naomi Tani

as Okoma

Hitoshi Takagi

as Tsunekichi Ishioka (as Kin Takagi)

Shôhei Yamamoto

as Yutaro Hanai

Yuri Yamashina

as Yukiyo

Junko Miyashita

as Chiyo

Ren Seidō

as Seiji