“The Scorpion Doesn’t Die”: Japanese Actress Meiko Kaji on Her 60-Year Career

Starting in the 1970s, Meiko Kaji tore through the Japanese film industry, delivering iconic performances that resonate to this day. Few performers commanded the screen with her authority. Kaji played delinquents, gang bosses, daughters sold into slavery, unrepentant killers—characters far outside societal norms. Through them all she was an implacable force, seeking vengeance and delivering retribution in a world of corrupt, perverse men. For the next 60 years, Kaji battled for her place in cinema, switching studios, working freelance, collaborating with novice directors, working in television and pop music when necessary. Kaji visited New York for the first time in […] Source