Karei-naru tsuiseki (1975)

Karei-naru tsuiseki (1975). Karei-naru tsuiseki: Directed by Norifumi Suzuki. With Etsuko Shihomi, Hisako Tanaka, Mach Fumiake, Bin Amatsu. A female plays a race car driver lends her services to the Japanese Secret Service. She goes in pursuit of a cartel of drug runners and assorted Japanese Yakuza types.

“Needless to say that I had never actually heard about this 1975 Japanese action movie titled u0026quot;Karei-Naru Tsuisekiu0026quot; (aka u0026quot;The Great Chaseu0026quot;) before now in 2023, as I had the opportunity to sit down and watch it for the first time.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eFor a movie that is as old as I am, I have to say that writers Masahiro Kakefuda and Takeo Kaneko actually put together a fair enough script and storyline for the movie. Sure, this was by no means rocket science, but the script actually proved to be entertaining enough. I was actually adequately entertained throughout the 83 minutes that the movie ran for.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eEssentially then u0026quot;Karei-Naru Tsuisekiu0026quot; was mostly just one fight scene after another, with some storytelling and narrative in between the fights. Simplistic, sure, but it actually proved entertaining enough, as this is the type of movie where you just lean back, grab a snack and watch the action on the screen.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI wasnu0026#39;t familiar with the cast ensemble here, but leading actress Etsuko Shihomi carried the movie well enough with her performance as Shinobu Yashiro.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThere was a lot of fighting throughout the 83 minutes that u0026quot;Karei-Naru Tsuisekiu0026quot; ran for, and most of it was nicely choreographed and executed on the screen. However, it was very obvious in my instances that there was no physical contact between kicks or punches and the people at the receving end of the kick or punch. You could see that the hand or foot was most often some distance away from the target intended to be struck.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe music in u0026quot;Karei-Naru Tsuisekiu0026quot; was archetypical 1970s music, which added a somewhat bizarre vibe to the movie, as it had that 1970s porn-vibe to it.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI was adequately entertained by director Norifumi Suzukiu0026#39;s 1975 movie u0026quot;Karei-Naru Tsuisekiu0026quot;, as I sat down to watch it for the first time ever here in 2023. My rating of u0026quot;Karei-Naru Tsuisekiu0026quot; lands on a six out of ten stars.”