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Gokudo no onna-tachi - Gosha Hideo marries his ”women cinema” with modern yakuza in a movie based on Shoko Ieda’s novel.

What if the hardest men in town were, in fact, women? While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza boss, is not wasting her time--she runs her husband’s gang much like Margaret Thatcher ruled the UK, with an iron fist. Meanwhile, Makoto, her voluptuous younger sister, marries a member of a rival band after being raped by him. The two women decide they're mad and won't take it anymore and the the mortality rate of the male characters is about to go south.

The story follows the outlines of reportage by Shoko Ieda, who spent a year living among 28 wives of gangsters, Yakuza Wives became a huge hit and the first movie of a long-running classic series exposing the women who live in the shadows in a harsh, bright, crimson light.

Director: GOSHA HIDEO

Stars: Shima Iwashita, Rino Katase, Akiko Kana, Riki Takeuchi

1986 - JAPANESE with OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES - COLOR - 16:9 ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN - 114 MINUTES