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Alleycat Rock: Female Boss
Alleycat Rock: Female Boss
	Theatrical poster for Alleycat Rock: Female Boss (1970)
Directed by	Yasuharu Hasebe
Written by	Hideichi Nagahara
Starring	Akiko Wada; Meiko Kaji
Cinematography	Muneo Ueda
Edited by	Akira Suzuki
Music by	Kunihiko Suzuki
Production; company	Hori Kikaku
Distributed by	Nikkatsu
Release date	May 2, 1970;
Running time	80 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Alleycat Rock: Female Boss (女番長野良猫ロック, Onna banchō nora-neko rokku) aka Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss, Female Juvenile Delinquent Leader: Alleycat Rock, Wildcat Rock^[2] is a 1970 Japanese outlaw biker film directed by Yasuharu Hasebe and starring Akiko Wada and Meiko Kaji. It is the first entry in the five-film Alleycat Rock or Stray Cat Rock series and was followed by Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo, Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter, Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal and Alleycat Rock: Crazy Riders '71.^[3]

Plot

Tough girl biker Ako (pop singer Akiko Wada) comes across Mei (Meiko Kaji) and her girl gang (the Alleycats/Stray Cats) as they are about to have a knife fight in Shinjuku, Tokyo with another gang of girls. When the second gang calls in their boyfriends for help, Ako joins in and turns the tide for Mei and her gang and becomes a leader figure for the girls. Meanwhile, Mei's boyfriend Michio (Kōji Wada) wants to join some right-wing nationalists, the Seiyu Group. To prove himself, he induces an old friend Kelly (Ken Sanders) to throw a boxing match so the Seiyu Group can cash in betting against him. But when the boxer, encouraged by Ako and Mei, wins the fight, the Seiyu Group takes their anger out on Michio until Mei and the Alleycats rescue him. But Mei and the girls are now on the run from the powerful group. Michio and Mei are eventually killed and Ako leaves Shinjuku, roaring away on her bike.^[4]

Cast

Akiko Wada as Ako^[1]
Meiko Kaji as Mei
Kōji Wada as Michio Yagami
Bunjaku Han as Yuriko
Yuka Kemari (久万里由香) as Mari
Hanako Tokachi (十勝花子) as Hanako
Yūko Shimazu (島津ゆう子) as Yūko
Yuka Ōhashi (大橋由香 as Yuka
Miki Yanagi (柳美樹) as Miki
Toshimitsu Shima (島敏光 as Maabō
George Fujita (富田ジョージ) as Hiroshi
Ken Sanders (ケン・サンダース) as Kelly Fujiyama
Gorō Mutsumi as Hanada
Tatsuya Fuji as Katsuya
Yōsui Inoue (as Andre Candre) (アンドレ・カンドレ)

Background

Alleycat Rock: Female Boss was designed by Nikkatsu to compete with Toei's Delinquent Boss series, which, in turn, had been inspired by Roger Corman's early outlaw biker film, The Wild Angels (1966).^[5] Nikkatsu also meant the film to showcase the popular singer Akiko Wada, and to appeal to her young audience. Co-star Meiko Kaji, however, attracted the most audience attention, and she became the star of the remaining episodes in the Alleycat Rock series.^[6] Nikkatsu regarded Alleycat Rock: Female Boss as a prototype for a new direction for the studio and its success ensured the studio's move towards youth-oriented action films.^[7]

Director Hasebe and cult screenwriter-director Atsushi Yamatoya wrote the script to Alleycat Rock: Female Boss. Because of the film's low budget, the studio gave Hasebe and Yamatoya more creative freedom than was generally the case for Nikkatsu's staff at this time.^[8] Of the distinctive look of Alleycat Rock: Female Boss, Hasebe recalled, "I tried to infuse those movies with the culture of the time. I spent a lot of time visiting places where people hung out. At the time, protest songs were popular, so I included them in the soundtrack. I remember, one day I noticed a big fuss near the west entrance of Shinjuku station. Activists were gathering and protesting against the US-Japanese Security Treaty. These people were like the hippies in the States. I found them interesting. Cinematic. I wanted my film to be this modern."^[6]

Critical appraisal

The Weissers, in their Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films, judge Alleycat Rock: Female Boss to be better than Toei's Delinquent Boss series, with which it was meant to compete, and call the series, "a prime example of sexually oriented-action movies, five excellent entries over a two year period".^[9] The style of the series, according to the Weissers, is "Ultra-chic, yet surprisingly grim".^[5] Allmovie writes that Alleycat Rock: Female Boss is "Good-looking and fast-paced".^[10]

Availability

Alleycat Rock: Female Boss was released theatrically in Japan on May 2, 1970.^[1] It was released on DVD on December 8, 2006.^[11]

Bibliography

English

Hasebe, Yasuharu. (1998). Interviewed by Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser in Tokyo, 1999, in Asian Cult Cinema, #25, 4th Quarter, 1999, p. 32-42.
"NORANEKO ROKKU: ONNA BANCHO". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2010-02-22.
Alleycat Rock: Female Boss at IMDb
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.

Japanese

女番長野良猫ロック(1970) (in Japanese). allcinema.net. Retrieved 2010-02-22.
女番長野良猫ロック (in Japanese). Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Archived from the original on 2011-10-08. Retrieved 2010-02-22.
女番長野良猫ロック (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-02-22.
女番長野良猫ロック(邦画 ) (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Archived from the original on 2012-03-24. Retrieved 2010-02-22.
女番長野良猫ロック. www.nikkatsu.com (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 30 January 2010. Retrieved 2010-02-22.

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "女番長　野良猫ロック｜日本の映画情報を検索日本映画情報システム". Japanese Cinema Database (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
^ "NORANEKO ROKKU: ONNA BANCHO". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2010-02-22.
^ 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.
^ 女番長野良猫ロック. movie.walkerplus.com (in Japanese). MovieWalker. Retrieved 2013-09-19.
^ ^a ^b Weisser p. 41
^ ^a ^b Hasebe, Yasuharu. (1998). Interviewed by Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser in Tokyo, 1999, in Asian Cult Cinema, #25, 4th Quarter, 1999, p.34.
^ Weisser, Thomas. Introduction to Hasebe, Yasuharu. (1998). Interviewed by Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser in Tokyo, 1999, in Asian Cult Cinema, #25, 4th Quarter, 1999, p.32-42.
^ Hasebe, pp. 35-36.
^ Weisser, pp. 40-41
^ Firsching, Robert. "Female Juvenile Delinquent Leader: Alleycat Rock: Plot Synopsis". Allmovie. Retrieved 2010-02-22.
^ 女番長・野良猫ロック (in Japanese). Amazon.com. 8 December 2006. Retrieved 2010-02-23.

[JCDB-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "女番長　野良猫ロック｜日本の映画情報を検索日本映画情報システム". Japanese Cinema Database (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 1 February 2013.

[2] "NORANEKO ROKKU: ONNA BANCHO". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2010-02-22.

[3] 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.

[4] 女番長野良猫ロック. movie.walkerplus.com (in Japanese). MovieWalker. Retrieved 2013-09-19.

[Weisser_p._41-5] Weisser p. 41

[Hasebe_34-6] Hasebe, Yasuharu. (1998). Interviewed by Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser in Tokyo, 1999, in Asian Cult Cinema, #25, 4th Quarter, 1999, p.34.

[7] Weisser, Thomas. Introduction to Hasebe, Yasuharu. (1998). Interviewed by Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser in Tokyo, 1999, in Asian Cult Cinema, #25, 4th Quarter, 1999, p.32-42.

[8] Hasebe, pp. 35-36.

[9] Weisser, pp. 40-41

[Allmovie-10] Firsching, Robert. "Female Juvenile Delinquent Leader: Alleycat Rock: Plot Synopsis". Allmovie. Retrieved 2010-02-22.

[11] 女番長・野良猫ロック (in Japanese). Amazon.com. 8 December 2006. Retrieved 2010-02-23.

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