Biography:

Sex And Fury star, Reiko Ike (born: 1953), although at the time looking grown-up and worldly for her age, hadn’t even hit 21 when she became one of Toei’s most provocative cinematic bad girls. Still in her late teens when she first materialized on the big screen in 1971, the stories of how she was discovered are inconsistent, one rumor asserting she was scouted at a nightclub, another that she was spotted as a model. Whatever the case, she didn’t seem to have been enamored of the idea of appearing naked in compromising, sometimes humiliating situations on film. Apparently, her family was also less than happy about the antics Toei proposed she get up to for the sake of box office success in the Girl Boss series. Yet, after all was said and done, there she ultimately was, in all her courageously defiant, nubile glory projected many times bigger than life in a multitude of Japanese cinemas. One can occasionally see Ike’s conflicted feelings shine through in her ‘pinky violence’ movies, and it’s her transcendental performances that remain the most memorable – simultaneously beautiful, fearless and heartwrenching. Ike, though beset by real-life problems with the law in the late seventies (once for drugs, once for illegal gambling), continued to act until the end of the decade, including appearances in at least two of Kinji Fukasaku’s Battles Without Honor & Humanity (Jinginaki Tatakai, 1973 – 1979) series, as well as the films, The Streetfighter’s Last Revenge (Gyakushu! Satsujin-ken, 1974) and Graveyard Of Honor (Jingi No Hakaba, 1975).

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Selected Filmography:

• The Golden Dog (Ôgon no inu, 1979)
• Graveyard of Honor (Jingi no hakaba, 1975)
• The Street Fighter's Last Revenge (Gyakushû! Satsujin ken, 1974)
• Girl Boss: Diamond Showdown (Sukeban – Taiman Shobu, 1974
• Terrifying Girls High School: Animal Courage (Kyofu Joshi Koko – Animaru Dokyosei, 1973)
• Criminal Woman: Killing Melody (Zenka onna: koroshi-bushi, 1973)
• Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War (Jingi naki tatakai: Dairi senso, 1973)
• Terrifying Girls High School: Delinquent Convulsion Group (Kyofu Joshi Koko – Furyo Monzetsu Guruupu, 1973)
• Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition and Torture (Yasagure anego den: sôkatsu rinchi, 1973)
• Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom (Kyôfu joshikôkô: bôkô rinchi kyôshitsu, 1973)
• Sex and Fury (Furyô anego den: Inoshika Ochô, 1973)
• Girl Boss (Sukeban, 1973)
• Terrifying Girls High School: Women’s Violent Classroom Classroom (Kyofu Joshi Koko – Boryoku Kyoshitsu, 1972)
• Girl Boss Guerilla (Girl Boss Guerilla, 1972)
• Girl Boss Blues – Queen Bee’s Challenge (Sukeban Buruusu – Mesubachi No Chosen, 1972
• Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha (Onsen mimizu geisha, 1972)
• Girl Boss Blues – Queen Bee’s Counterattack (Sukeban Buruusu – Mesubachi No Gyakushu, 1971