Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer

1973 [JAPANESE]

Action / Crime / Drama

3
IMDb Rating 5.9/10 10 149 149

Plot summary

Rica wanting a fresh start leaves her friends and past life behind or at least that is what she thinks as trouble always seems to find her. Rica's looks into a ship that exploded and everyone who survived this disaster who comes in contact with her dies. Rica only chance of solving the mystery of the sunken ship is if she can locate a old friend of hers who just happened to be on that ship the night it blew up.

Director

Kô Nakahira Photo
Kô Nakahira

Top cast

Mizuho Suzuki Photo
Mizuho Suzuki as Police Chief
Kentarô Kaji Photo
Kentarô Kaji as Tatsu
Takeshi Yamamoto Photo
Takeshi Yamamoto as Captain
Tôru Minegishi Photo
Tôru Minegishi as Hachiro
720p.WEB 1080p.WEB
764.96 MB
1280*534
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 23 min
Seeds 1
1.39 GB
1920*800
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 23 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by searchanddestroy-1

One more stupid flick from Japan

I was wrong, I am not through yet with this director, the one who made the film I comment now, and the same who gave me the movie commented one hour ago. Japanese crap at its worst. OK there is no real boredom here, no length, only action, bloody violence, but all this doesn't fill up this feature destined for silly audiences, idiots. I ordered these films only because I did not know this film maker, but now it's done. No more, I promise. Here you have females involved with gangs, macho gangs, with all that means in terms of violence and he men attitudes. Plenty of gratuitous violence, the same you have in Italian seventies crime flicks, but here no emotion at all. That changes from everything I saw from Japan all over the years.
Reviewed by Uriah43 6 / 10

Good Action Combined with an In-Depth Plot

This film begins with Rica (Rika Aoki) breaking out of reform school with the help of a friend. While she is in hiding a young woman named "Midori" (Michiko Murato) comes to her and tells her that her another friend named "Hanako" (Masami Souda) is in great danger and needs her help. Upon attempting to obtain more information Midori is shot and killed. This leads to a chase where Rica pursues the assassin and when she finally overtakes him a fight ensues which results in the man killing himself before she can force any information out of him. Knowing only that Hanako is in Misawa, she takes the first train there but along the way several attempts are made upon her life by the Shimamura Gang of the Yakuza. However, as it so happens all of them are unsuccessful partly because of a mysterious stranger who appears at the most convenient times. But once she gets to Misawa she discovers that there is more to the mysterious disappearance of her friend Hanako than meets the eye-and she has now become a target as well. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that--despite the obvious anti-Americanism featured--this film turned out to be fairly interesting due in large part because of the continuous action and the in-depth plot. On the other hand, there were a couple of scenes involving an unarmed Rica defeating her opponent in a gun battle which seemed a bit too unrealistic. But that's Hollywood for youor at least the Japanese equivalent of it. In any case, although it wasn't a great film by any means, I still enjoyed it and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.
Read more IMDb reviews

1 Comments

Be the first to leave a comment