This movie begins with a mother and her young daughter standing on a bridge. The mother then jumps from the bridge into the water with her daughter in her arms. Although the mother dies the daughter survives and having now grown up she carries a scar on her back as a reminder of the incident so long ago. But along with the scar, "Ohyaku Dayu" (Junko Miyazono) also carries a deep resentment for men in powerful positions due in large part to their arrogance and denigration of the lower classes of people like her. However, her hatred for men changes one day when she falls in love with a thief named "Shinkuro" (Kunio Murai) who subsequently tells her that he is planning to steal a large amount of money being transferred to a nearby village. Out of love for him, she whole-heartedly supports his idea and with her help they are successful in their endeavor. Unfortunately, they are betrayed by a close friend and after being raped she is forced to watch her husband being killed prior to her being sent to an extremely tough prison exclusively for men. Yet even this is not enough to quell her insatiable need for revenge--and she is more than willing to use her exquisite body as an instrument in that regard. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a rather odd sort of film for the genre. Produced in 1968, it was filmed in black-and-white and contained very little sex or nudity. At least, nothing out of the ordinary. What it does have is a good plot with several suggestive scenes and a small scene of Ohyaku bathing which was probably thrown in to tease the audience more than anything else. Obviously, movie standards have changed quite a bit since then. In any case, I enjoyed this film and have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.
