Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter

With the most salacious title of the series and a director (Yasuharu Hasebe) who would go on to make some of the more notorious 'violent pink' movies of the '70s, Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter sounds like it should be a thoroughly tasteless sleaze-fest, but in reality proves just as mediocre as the previous two entries (Delinquent Girl Boss and Wild Jumbo), being another unexceptional gang drama with attractive actresses acting tough unconvincingly.

The beautiful Meiko Kaji returns, this time as Mako, leader of the Alleycats, an all-girl gang who clash with male gang The Eagles, whose leader, Baron (Tatsuya Fuji), has a hatred of African-Japanese people. When one such mixed race man falls for Alleycat Mari (Mari Koiso), Baron and his men react with violence, but are seen off by young stranger Kazuma (Rikiya Yasuoka), who has arrived in town looking for his sister Megumi. Mako takes a fancy to Kazuma, who is also mixed race, which upsets Baron even further, since he also has the hots for the top Alleycat (although impotency prevents him from proving his manliness). Rising tensions lead to punch-ups and random acts of violence, culminating in a shoot-out at a U.S. airbase.

There are a few moments in Sex Hunter that definitely offered Hasebe the opportunity to cut loose, but the director plays it safe this early in his career, delivering very little of the shocking sexual violence that typifies his more infamous work: those looking for jaw-dropping scenes of deviancy are advised to move on... there's nothing much to see here. The majority of the film consists of much posturing from both sides, some musical interludes (including a couple of numbers by mixed-race girl group Golden Half), mild drug-taking, and lots of driving around Tokyo in jeeps. The racially charged plot adds a modicum of interest, but this third Stray Cat Rock movie - regarded by many as the best in the series (which doesn't say much for the others) - still left me wanting.

I saw this DVD in the front of an independent video rental store. Judging by the cover, it seemed to be a Japanese version of Faster Pussycat. I took it home, popped it in, and the beginning seemed to confirm my suspicion. However, as the movie progressed, it told the story of a gang of teenage/young adult Japanese girls, and their interaction with a gang of xenophobic young Japanese men and their battles with those who are the offspring of Japanese women and US servicemen. A lot of violence perpetrated by the Japanese men, with the girls acting as peacemakers and protectors of the "half-breeds". Like all movies, it comes down to a violent confrontation, and not everyone will live to see the credits roll. All in all, if you are looking for a good non-mainstream movie, it is worth a viewing.

Revered Grindhouse Maestro Yasaharu Hasebe's dynamically delirious, dizzyingly delicious, street fighting fillies fun-a-thon 'Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter' is yet another fiendishly fascinating, darkly downbeat, luxuriously lurid, freakishly freewheeling, thug-trashing thrill-spiller from The Nikkatsu Corporation. As always, the breathtakingly beautiful, exquisitely elegant, sartorially sublime sin-siren Meiko Kaji demonstratively makes for one of the most mesmerizingly magnificent mistresses of midnight mayhem that ever sultrily stalked the silver screen! Watch agog as these super-sexy, knife-sharp savages, led by slinky switch-blade sister supreme Meiko Kaji stridently slash their sweetly sinuous way into psychotronic celluloid history! With its fabulously furry fuzz-tones, kaleidoscopically crazy visuals, eye-poppingly hyperbolic mise-en-scene, and gut-punchingly stark conclusion, 'Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter' is a luxuriously lurid, heroically hard-rocking, glamorously girl-frugging gang banger that you won't want to miss!

Stray Cat Rock:Sex Hunter starts off as local girls running around the city,taking advantage of older men, stealing their money and going out for drinks.The head girl Mako lies outside of a bar and suddenly a man wanders over, singing a sorrowful ballad.They talk and get to know each other, then a pack of male gangs out to rid the city of half-breeds go over to threaten him to leave or get killed.This has a lot going on along with lots of revelations at the end.There's fights,Mako getting stoned with rocks,a hotel "rape party",an underground bar with actual bars, a frustrated gang leader named Baron who can't get it up.

When I realized it was a film made by Yasuharu Hasebe I was shocked since this is actually something early from him, he would later make the violent pinku entries:rape 13th hour,assault!jack the ripper, etc. This was a fantastic action film done by Yasuharu Hasebe he did an impressive job to what we've seen now, but a production from Nikkatsu it was way more like a toei.I didn't get much into Stray Cat Rock until the last 50 minutes,plus it was after watching Rica which I didn't like.But this was better especially Meiko Kaji.She's like Miki sugimoto and Reiko Ike,beautiful and badass.

If you LOVE the Japanese exploitation scene from the 60's or 70's like I do, you should definitely check it out.It's a winner..a real winner

This film essentially revolves around a female street gang led by a young woman named "Mako" (Meiko Kaji) that is having problems with a male gang known as "the Eagles" which is led by a man called "the Baron" (Tatsuya Fuji). To that effect, although the Baron is quite attracted to Mako, what he doesn't like is the fact that some of the local women with connections to her gang are hanging out with certain young men who are of mixed Japanese and Afro-American descent. So, in order to further his racist views, he and his men resort to extremely violent measures to expel them from the area. What he doesn't count on, however, is one particular young man named "Kazuma" (Rikiya Yasuoka) who is willing to endure all kinds of abuse in order to find his younger sister who was separated from him many years earlier. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that I thought this film was slightly better than its immediate predecessor due to its more dramatic plot. Having said that, however, I must admit that there were a couple of scenes that were somewhat unrealistic. Even so, I liked this film for the most part and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.