Kaji began her career under her birth name of Masako Ota, climbing through the ranks of the Japanese studio system until she received a new name and a starring role in a period gangster film, “Blind ...

A breakout star of hyperviolent action movies in the early 1970s, Meiko Kaji is best known for Toei’s “Sasori” (“Scorpion”) series, playing the eponymous laser-eyed female convict who takes revenge ...

An actress who appears next to the likes of Pam Grier on Quentin Tarantino’s Mount Everest of female action stars, Meiko Kaji is best known for her roles in Lady Snowblood, Female Prisoner #701: ...

'70s Week: The '70s saw women kicking ass like never before — two of them cut an especially spectacular trail that bleeds a clear path through the last 50 years of action movies. Women have been ...