If you loved Female Yakuza Tale, try The Executioner II: Karate Inferno

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Teruo Ishii, and they both carry the raw mood tag, and they sit in Action / Crime territory. If that's the register that drew you to Female Yakuza Tale, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Executioner II: Karate Inferno is

Someone once again mistakes a heist for a martial arts tournament. Koga’s crew gets hired to retrieve a jewel and the heiress’s daughter only to learn the whole thing’s a setup for a bigger score. The body count climbs like the thermometer on a Tokyo summer afternoon.

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