Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo
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| Directed by | Toshiya Fujita |
| Screenplay by | Toshiya Fujita Shuichi Nagahara |
| Starring | Bunjaku Han Meiko Kaji Tatsuya Fuji |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo (野良猫ロック ワイルドジャンボ, Nora neko rokku wairudo janbo) or Alleycat Rock: Wild Jumbo is a 1970 Japanese film directed by Toshiya Fujita.[1][2] It is the second of the five "Nora neko rokku" (Stray Cat Rock or Alleycat Rock) low budget exploitation films begun by Alleycat Rock: Female Boss.[3]
Plot
[edit]A group of wild young people, after enjoying antics in a jeep, kidnap a wealthy woman driver (Bunjaku Han) by shooting out her car tires. They set her free but she forms an attraction to a member of the group. They begin a romance and she tells him she is the mistress of the leader of a religious organization called Shinkyo Gakkai.
The group dig up a stash of weapons buried in a school courtyard at the end of the second world war. They plan to rob the organization.
Cast
[edit]- Meiko Kaji as C-ko (c子)
- Bunjaku Han as Asako (アサ子)
- Takeo Chii as Taki (タキ)
- Tatsuya Fuji as Gani-shin (ガニ新)
- Yusuke Natsu as Jiro (ジロー)
- Soichiro Maeno as Debo (デボ)
- Mari Shiraki
- Akiko Wada
- Ryōhei Uchida as Officer
Production
[edit]When the first film in the series Alleycat Rock: Female Boss proved to be a success, Nikkatsu released this sequel only three months later. Director Fujita had previously made teenage delinquent movies for the studio.[4]
The weapons seen in the film are the Nambu pistol and the type 11 light machine gun, both WW2 era Japanese military weapons.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ "野良猫ロック ワイルドジャンボ". 日活. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
- ^ "野良猫ロック ワイルドジャンボデジタル大辞泉プラスの解説". kotobank. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
- ^ Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. pp. 40–42. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.
- ^ Weisser, p. 41
- 野良猫ロック ワイルド・ジャンボ, サイケおやじ館
External links
[edit]- Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo at IMDb
- 野良猫ロック ワイルドジャンボ at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
- Goo Movies
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