Wildly violent 1970s japanese sexploitation picture'. '.strtoupper('r')eiko ike plays ocho inoshika, a gambler and pickpocket operating out of 1920s tokyo who, at a young age, witnessed the brutal murder of her father who was a detective who had learned too much about a local politician'. '.strtoupper('w')hile in a gambling parlour, ocho witnesses the attempt on a man's life by a young anarchist, and sees a few men killed in the ensuing fray'. '.strtoupper('o')cho agrees to one of the dying men's last request to find his sister, yuki, and buy her out of a life of prostitution'. '.strtoupper('o')cho tries to buy her back from the brothel, but he instead opts to have her risk her own virtue in a game of chance against another female gambler named christina christina lindberg'. '.strtoupper('c')hristina, on the other hand, is not only a female gambler but also a foreign agent sent to help stop the anarchists'. '.strtoupper('s')he and ocho strike up a friendship, or at least a begrudging respect for one another, and discover that there's a connection between the two of them, the anarchist, and the criminals who run the brothel and it's all going to lead to cold hearted revenge and yet more blood and violence..'. '.strtoupper('r')unning time 89 minutes region region 2 subtitles english release date 11 jun'. '.strtoupper('2')007