The Red Silk Gambler

With her first love that unfolded in the battlefield in her heart, and with a short sword and a pillbox as her weapons, female gambler Okatsu the Tiger Lily travels from gambling site to gambling site. Surrounding her are Omon, an outlaw star blind lone gambler; Onaka, a thief who’s after Okatsu to avenge her father’s death; Ohide, a tattoo artist whose back is covered by a dragon tattoo; and Oryu, a young girl sold as a prostitute to a gambling family.

• Release date
• November 21, 1972
• Runtime
• 86 min
• Genres
• Action, Crime
• Director
• Teruo Ishii

Cast

Eiko Nakamura Okatsu the Tiger Lily Reiko Ike Onaka Sanae Tsuchida Ohide Hiroko Fuji Omon

R

Reiichi Hatanaka Junko Matsudaira Shingo Yamashiro Asao Koike