Nikkatsu
Directed by Yasuharu Hassebe
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Image Entertainment)
A war photographer falls in love with a stewardess. However, on their first date she is kidnapped by a band of "ninja" girls. He sets out to find her with the help of his own ninja master. It turns out the kidnappers are trying to save a stash of gold that his girlfriend's father hid from the Nazis. A group of foreigners also want the gold, and kill the ninja girls one by one. The plot is not really the point here, but rather the vivid stylization of gangster tropes, particularly the use of eye-popping color. Less interesting are frequent breaks for go-go dancing which dates this badly. Still, a lot of fun.
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