Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby

Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby

No life could have had more hate, more violence, less love!

1973 · 85 min · ★ 6.0 · Action, Comedy, Drama

Reform schools are a way of protecting society by ridding it of lawless juvenile delinquents. But who's protecting the juvenile delinquents from corrupt reform schools? Rica could be considered a bit of an expert on reform schools, having spent most of her early life in and out of them. When Rica is dragged back once again, she gets a severe beating and is finally sent off to a mental hospital with the intention of selling her and her pals into a slave trade. A trader takes Rica's friend Jun to a mountain cottage where she's pegged for the lead in his clandestine porno film operation. Once again, it's up to tough-as-nails Rica to bust up this corrupt racket once and for all!

Directed by Kōzaburō Yoshimura · Written by Kaneto Shindō

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Rika Aoki Rica Aoki
Jiro Kawarazaki Goro
Taiji Tonoyama Shimamura
Kotoe Hatsui Director of the Juvenile Training School for Girls
Reiko Kasahara Okyo of Kuchinawa
Masami Souda Hanako
Yoshie Ichige Jun
Eiko Fukazawa
Shōji Ōki
Tamotsu Tamura Captain
Mikio Shimizu
Yasuo Arakawa

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