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1960

Meju

Female Detective

女獣

(c)KOKUSAI HOEI

(c)KOKUSAI HOEI

Release Date
August, 13th, 1960
Running Time
76 min
Genre
Feature
Color
Monochrome
Screening Format
-

[ Directed by ]

[ Cast ]

[ Staff ]

[ Production Company ]

SHINTOHO

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

SHINTOHO

[ Story ]

This is the vigorous and hard but touching story of a police-woman who devotes her life to preventing and correcting teen-age delinquency, fighting all the vices and violences which lurk in the dark streets and slums of every big city.
This chief characters in this action-filmed drama are women. With the object of discovering the male accomplice of Hideko a bad girl, Michiko a police-woman, disguises herself and infiltrates a gang. Then in a reformatory, under the name of Suzuko, she finds a certain girl who is familiar with Hideko and from her she approaches a woman, named Keiko.
One day, at a beer-hall, the police-woman meets Keiko who just finished a secret narcotics transaction and asks her about Hideko. However, with the sudden appearance of Saburo, one of the gang, her search fails, and an exciting pursuit begins. Later Keiko is found dead.

【Quoted from Unijapan Film Quarterly 1960.3.4】

[ Contact (International) ]

INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION FILMS, INC.
Tokyo Media City 5-7-1 Kinuta, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 157-0073
Rep: FUJIWARA Masamichi
Attn: MINAKAWA Osamu
tel: +81 3 3749 7645
fax: +81 3 3749 7222
E-mail: content@kokusaihoei.co.jp
http://www.kokusaihoei.co.jp

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