Royal Stompbox: STRAY CAT ROCK: SEX HUNTER
The Royal Cinema
608 College St
ON
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Description
7:30PM - Teenage Delinquent Pre-show | 8:00PM - Feature
What better way to shake off your turkey hangover with brand new digital restoration of the Japanese exploitation girl gang classic Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter!
Produced by Japan’s oldest film studio: Nikkatsu studios, the Stray Cat Rock series is a pop-art explosion, with plenty of inspired visuals, bonkers fight scenes, groovy tunes, and psychedelic wonderment. The third – and best - in a series of five Stray Cat Rock films, all released in rapid succession between 1970-71, Sex Hunter, is a complex portrayal of youth counterculture, racism and the criminal underworld in post-war Japan. The film can really be seen as the turning point in Nikkatsu’s history – veering away from the idealistic 1960s into the grimy, political and nihilistic 1970s.
Sex Hunter stars iconic badass Meiko Kaji (Lady Snowblood, Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion) as Mako, the leader of the delinquent girl gang The Alleycats, who in between nights of partying and committing petty theft, must stop her vicious gang-leader ex-lover Baron (Tatsuya Fuji) from starting a race-war in their city. Rounding out the cast is Italian-Japanese actor Rikiya Yasuoka (Tampopo) as Mako’s new love interest, and Baron’s chief rival, Kazuma. Featuring a killer psychedelic funk/jazz soundtrack b Hajime Kaburagi and frequent musical performances by popular girl group Golden Half (named so because of their mixed-race backgrounds – seriously!) the film is a delirious pop-art explosion. Directed by exploitation veteran Yasuharu Hasebe (Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701’s Grudge Song) Sex Hunter features a psychedelic mix of girl gangs, bikers, sex, drugs and rock and roll with plenty of ass-kicking to boot, all captured in a delirious mash up of pop aesthetics including split screens, freeze frames, bold colours, frenetic editing and dizzying handheld cinematography
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Start:
2017-10-10T20:00:00-04:00
End:
2017-10-10T22:00:00-04:00
Category
Film
Tickets
ADVANCE TICKETS
13.19
CAD
370