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Meiko Kaji is a Actor Japonaise born on 24 march 1947 at Chiyoda-ku (Japon)

Meiko Kaji

Meiko Kaji
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Birth name Masako Ota
Nationality Japon
Birth 24 march 1947 (77 years) at Chiyoda-ku (Japon)

Meiko Kaji (梶 芽衣子, Kaji Meiko, born March 24, 1947) is a Japanese actress and singer. She has appeared in about 100 films, with her most famous roles being outlaw characters in early 1970s films, such as the rebels of the Stray Cat Rock series, the assassin Lady Snowblood, or the murderous Sasori from the Female Convict 701: Scorpion series.

Usually with

Hideo Murota
Hideo Murota
(5 films)
Tatsuya Fuji
Tatsuya Fuji
(5 films)
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Filmography of Meiko Kaji (21 films)

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Actress

Tree Without Leaves
Directed by Kaneto Shindō
Genres Drama
Actors Keiju Kobayashi, Nobuko Otowa, Hideji Ōtaki, Taiji Tonoyama, Meiko Kaji
Rating77% 3.8889653.8889653.8889653.8889653.888965
The film is a voiced-over narrative describing the early boyhood of a narrator, who is also depicted as an old man. The narrator describes his relationship with his mother (played by Nobuko Otowa) and his father (played by Ichiro Zaitsu).
Double Suicide of Sonezaki, 1h52
Directed by Yasuzō Masumura
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Théâtre, Transport films, Martial arts films, Films based on plays
Actors Meiko Kaji, Hisashi Igawa, Sachiko Hidari, Kazuyo Aoki
Roles O-Hatsu
Rating67% 3.380683.380683.380683.380683.38068
The plot follows closely the original play. Tokubei (Ryudo Uzaki) works as a soy-sauce maker. He falls in love with indentured prostitute O-Hatsu (Meiko Kaji). After O-Hatsu's indenture is bought by a wealthy patron, they plan to commit suicide.
Yakuza Graveyard, 1h32
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Yakuza films, Gangster films
Actors Meiko Kaji, Tetsuya Watari (渡 哲也), Nagisa Ōshima, Seizō Fukumoto, Takuzo Kawatani, Hideo Murota
Roles Keiko
Rating70% 3.534783.534783.534783.534783.53478
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice.
Lullaby of the Earth, 1h51
Directed by Yasuzō Masumura
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Actors Meiko Kaji, Mieko Harada, Natsuko Kahara, Eiji Okada, Kinuyo Tanaka
Roles Young Lady
Rating68% 3.4304653.4304653.4304653.4304653.430465
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. Notwithstanding her healthy distrust of all strangers, which her upbringing instilled in her, it is not long before a cunning racketeer finds her weak point, that temptation which she cannot resist, that weakness, different as it may be, that each of us has, and brings her into his power. What follows is a depiction of her cruel descent into the depths of moral decay, as she becomes a collaborator in a system of exploitation, unbridled lust, vanity, and greed, in which she and other victims are always the losers.
The Homeless
Directed by Kōichi Saitō
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Shintarō Katsu, Ken Takakura, Meiko Kaji, Noboru Ando, Taiji Tonoyama, Renji Ishibashi
Roles Sakei
Rating56% 2.8163652.8163652.8163652.8163652.816365
Two men released from prison and one man's girlfriend (Meiko Kaji) search for gold using a diving suit.
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance, 1h29
Directed by Toshiya Fujita
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films
Actors Meiko Kaji, Jūzō Itami, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Yoshio Harada, Toru Abe, Koji Nanbara
Roles Yuki Kashima
Rating63% 3.1506953.1506953.1506953.1506953.150695
Sayo, condamnée à la prison à vie, pour avoir tué l'assassin de son mari et de son fils, ne vit plus que pour une chose : donner naissance à l'instrument de sa vengeance. Elle décède malheureusement en couches en donnant le jour à une fille, Yuki, qui, suivant sa destinée, deviendra la redoutable Lady Snowblood, aux charmes aussi affûtés que le sabre !
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable, 1h27
Directed by Shun’ya Itō
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Prison films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Meiko Kaji, Mikio Narita, Yayoi Watanabe, Koji Nanbara
Roles Nami Matsushima
Rating69% 3.4942553.4942553.4942553.4942553.494255
Sasori is outside the prison and on the run from the police, wanted for breaking out of prison and murder. On her trail is detective Kondo (Mikio Narita). She takes refuge with a woman who has a brother with a learning disability. The woman and her brother are also involved in an incestuous relationship. Both the police and an ex-prison mate of Sasori's pursue her.
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima, 1h40
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Yakuza films, Gangster films
Actors Sonny Chiba, Bunta Sugawara, Kin'ya Kitaōji, Meiko Kaji, Kunie Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko
Roles Yasuko Uehara
Rating74% 3.7415553.7415553.7415553.7415553.741555
In 1950 Hiroshima City, Shoji Yamanaka is involved in a fight over cheating in a card game and stabs several men. He is sentenced to two years in prison, where he befriends Shozo Hirono. When he is released from prison, the waitress at a restaurant offers to let him eat for free but a gang led by Katsutoshi Otomo, the rebellious son of Choji Otomo, beat him. He is saved by Otomo senior and is offered to join the yakuza by Muraoka, the waitress Yasuko's uncle. Yamanaka serves under Muraoka's sworn brother Kunimatsu Takanashi, until he is chased out of Hiroshima by Muraoka for beginning a romantic relationship with the widowed Yasuko.
Lady Snowblood, 1h37
Directed by Toshiya Fujita
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Sports films, Transport films, Rape in fiction, Martial arts films, Samurai films, Rape and revenge films
Actors Meiko Kaji, Kō Nishimura, Yutaka Matsushige, Miyoko Akaza, Eiji Okada, Hitoshi Takagi
Roles Yuki Kashima
Rating75% 3.7990853.7990853.7990853.7990853.799085
The scenes of this film do not appear in chronological order. Each paragraph below represents a passage of the film in the order it appears.
Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song, 1h29
Directed by Yasuharu Hasebe
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Meiko Kaji, Masakazu Tamura, Yayoi Watanabe, Akemi Negishi, Toshiyuki Hosokawa
Roles Nami Matsushima
Rating62% 3.147513.147513.147513.147513.14751
Nami Matsushima is found in a wedding chapel by police led by detective Hirose. They handcuff her, but she is able to escape. Kudo, a worker in a sex show club, rescues her. He is a radical with a history of problems with the police. One of the women from the sex show, who had unsuccessfully tried to seduce Kudo, finds Nami's handcuffs in Kudo's things, and informs the police. The police arrest and beat Kudo and then release and tail him back to Nami's hiding place.
Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song, 1h28
Directed by Yasuharu Hasebe
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Meiko Kaji, Masakazu Tamura, Yayoi Watanabe, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Akemi Negishi
Roles Nami Matsushima
Rating62% 3.1474353.1474353.1474353.1474353.147435
Toujours recherchée par la police, Sasori se lie avec un ancien activiste de gauche, traumatisé d'avoir été torturé dans sa jeunesse.
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41, 1h30
Directed by Shun’ya Itō
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Prison films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Meiko Kaji, Kayoko Shiraishi, Hideo Murota, Shinzo Hotta, Nenji Kobayashi
Roles Nami Matsushima
Rating70% 3.548773.548773.548773.548773.54877
Nami Matsushima is locked up and bound in underground solitary confinement. She makes a weapon out of a spoon by holding it in her mouth and grinding it against the concrete floor. The chief warden, Goda, is to be promoted to a higher post shortly. When an inspector visits the prison, Matsushima is brought out of confinement for one day. During the inspection, Matsushima makes a surprise attack on Goda and scratches his face. The other prisoners start to riot, but the guards defuse the situation. The prisoners are punished by being sent to an intensive labour camp. Goda believes that Matsushima may inspire the other prisoners to revolt. He assigns four guards to publicly rape her. Returning from the intensive labour camp, Matsushima is in a van with six other convicts, one of whom is Oba (Kayoko Shiraishi). The other convicts beat Matsushima, who falls lifeless and bleeding. The guards are alerted that Matsushima is feared dead. When they stop the van to inspect her, Matsushima strangles and kills one of the guards, and Oba and the other convicts get the other guard and blow up the van. When Goda sees the van's ruins, he sends search parties to look for Matsushima.
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion, 1h27
Directed by Shun’ya Itō
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Erotic thriller
Themes Seafaring films, Prison films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Rape and revenge films, Women in prison films, Erotic thriller films, Auto-justice, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Meiko Kaji, Isao Natsuyagi, Yayoi Watanabe, Yōko Mihara, Hideo Murota, Akemi Negishi
Roles Nami Matsushima
Rating71% 3.5957453.5957453.5957453.5957453.595745
Nami Matsushima (Meiko Kaji) is set up by her boyfriend, a crooked police detective named Sugimi (Isao Natsuyagi) to win favor with the Yakuza. She is raped by several drug dealers. She makes a failed attempt to stab Sugimi on the steps of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Headquarters. She is sentenced to do hard time in a women's prison. Matsushima is given the number 701. The prison is run by sadistic and lecherous male guards. The prisoners are forced to walk up and down a stair-like contraption naked with male guards watching from below. While in prison she meets inmates like Yuki Kida (Yayoi Watanabe) who was committed for fraud and theft, Otsuka (Akemi Negishi), jailed for burglary and extortion, and Katagiri (Rie Yokoyama) who has been impounded for arson and illegally disposing of a body. On the outside, Sugimi and the Japanese mafia orchestrate a plan in which Matsushima will succumb to an "accidental" death in prison. They enlist the help of Katagiri, pulling on her ties to both Sugimi and the mafia, and quickly set their plan in motion.
Wandering Ginza Butterfly, 1h26
Directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Meiko Kaji, Tsunehiko Watase, Koji Nanbara, Tomiko Ishii, Yayoi Watanabe, Haruo Tanaka
Roles Nami
Rating66% 3.3337953.3337953.3337953.3337953.333795
Nami, a Bōsōzoku leader, kills a high-ranking member of a yakuza organization, due to a turf war and is sent to prison. After serving three years, she finds a home living with her uncle at a pool hall. After meeting a pimp named Ryuji, she acquires a job as a hostess in Ginza, where she soon becomes very popular. However, her criminal past is not easily left behind. Further complicating matters is a local yakuza named Owada, who attempts to take control of the bar and kills Ryuji's sworn brother. Defending her uncle's business and seeking revenge, Nami goes after Owada.
Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler, 1h26
Directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Meiko Kaji, Sonny Chiba, Junzaburō Ban, Shingo Yamashiro, Hideo Murota
Roles Nami
Rating64% 3.2471353.2471353.2471353.2471353.247135
Seeking revenge for the death of her father, Nami is now on the hunt for Hoshiden. After arriving in Tokyo, Nami once again becomes a hostess at a Ginza club, while searching every alley and gambling spot for Hoshiden, with the help of Ryuji.