Blind Swordswoman: Hellish Skin

1969 [JAPANESE]

Action / Adventure / Drama

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IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 86 86

yakuza jidaigeki female samurai

Plot summary

Oichi may have met her match as she vies against the evil beauty that has set her sights on destroying her. She must face numerous other challenges before confronting her greatest rival. While longing to live and love like other women, she realizes that she can never have a normal life, her sword which she holds on to like a security blanket will always come between her and such a life...

Director

Sadatsugu Matsuda Photo
Sadatsugu Matsuda

Top cast

Kikko Matsuoka Photo
Kikko Matsuoka as Oen
Tadao Nakamaru Photo
Tadao Nakamaru as Tanbei Magari
Tôru Abe Photo
Tôru Abe as Bunzo Kazama
Yasunori Irikawa Photo
Yasunori Irikawa as Masaku
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806.16 MB
1280*544
Japanese 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
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1.46 GB
1920*816
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
Seeds ...

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by masercot

When the Whip Comes Down

If you like whips...and I mean REALLY like whips, you will LOVE this movie. It has the same villianess as the first Oichi movie and she's even MORE cartoonish. Of course it has the usual swordplay as well.Oichi seems to have a different personality in each movie. In this one, she was a cold bounty hunter to start with; however, she evolves into a rural domestic and even marries before her past, and the lady with the whip, catch up with her.This movie probably had as good an emotional range as the first Oichi movie. She's not quite the killing machine that she became later, but she manages to carve up thirty or so samurai like nova scotia salmon...I'd have to give this movie two stars out of five.
Reviewed by jrd_73 7 / 10

Slightly Better Than the First Film

Trapped, The Crimson Bat is the second in the Crimson Bat series. I thought the first one was okay but nothing great. The second is a bit of an improvement, so I am upping the rating by one star.In this one, the blind swordswoman Oichi runs afoul with a female villain using a whip made of the hair of women hurt by men (is there paperwork on that?). In spite of the other review, I don't think this is the same villainous as in the first film. The characters have different names (at least in the subtitles) and are played by different actresses. After Oichi nearly dies from the venom of snakes thrown by the villainess (!), she is rescued and nursed back to health by a simple farmer. Oichi falls for her savior and wants to settle down and be a farmer's wife. Unfortunately, the local government is crooked, cheating the farmers out of their rice. Soon, Oichi will have to pick back up her sword.Trapped, The Crimson Bat is often considered the best of the series. The story, while simple, is well presented (sort-of a female samurai variation on Shane). Trapped, The Crimson Bat has more action than the first film and ends with a bigger action sequence (and higher body count). I liked the film, but I still found it a little disappointing. Yoko Matsuyama is not overly convincing as either blind nor as a master swordswoman. Most of the time, she swings her sword and villains run into it.Trapped, The Crimson Bat is easy viewing for samurai film fans. I was entertained, just not enough to seek out the third and fourth entries in the series.
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