Yakuza no Onnatachi

Abstract

Japan's vernacular version of the gangster movie, the yakuza film has been one of the most successful, long-lived, and written-upon genres of Japanese cinema and comprises a huge array of inflections, remakes, and stylistic and thematic approaches. The most popular female gangster film sagas reflect a development of the whole genre. The Red Peony Gambler is a chivalry film series of eight installments that was produced by Toei studios between 1968 and 1972. In the Red Peony series, Oryu is a lone drifter: her nomadic lifestyle estranges her from normative, middle-class femininity, which was then associated with the domestic sphere. The success of the gangster genre in the mid-1960s prompted the creation of a plethora of female yakuza/outlaw cycles and character types, starting from the valiant female gambler, archetypically incarnated by Fuji Junko as Oryu in the Red Peony series.

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