Nearly 60 years after making her big screen debut, the iconic “Lady Snowblood” actress and singer, Meiko Kaji, is breaking new ground. In addition to releasing an album in March that will ...

seldom has the archetype of the vengeful virago been given more exquisitely cinematic form than in Meiko Kaji, a human flower of carnage indeed.

In the Japanese cinema of the 1970s, Meiko Kaji really slayed. Yakuza, crooked cops, rapists: Nobody was safe from the avenging angels she played in a string of highly stylized exploitation movies ...

Actress and singer Meiko Kaji's album “Hajiki Uta” has been re-released as a vinyl record in Europe exactly 50 years after its initial release. “I’m so flattered that my album is enjoying ...

Meiko Kaji as Genkai in Netflix’s ‘Yu Yu Hakusho’. Credit: Netflix One such beloved character is Genkai, an elderly chi master who serves as Yusuke’s mentor – here portrayed by the ...

Meiko Kaji, the doyenne of 1970s exploitation pics, is at her glowering, slashing best in Teruo Ishii's 1970 actioner as the leader of an Edo Period yakuza gang who must fight not only her ...

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Meiko Kaji reprises her role as Nami, a vengeful female gang leader, in the second installment of this high-action series that casts a new actor -- martial arts legend Sonny Chiba -- in the role ...