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All five films in the series have been released in a beautiful collection by Arrow Video. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5316\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5316\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/stray_cat_review-1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[5315]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/stray_cat_review-1.jpg?resize=474%2C1372\" alt=\"stray_cat_review-1\" width=\"474\" height=\"1372\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5316\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comic Strip Review by Nick Jobbings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"info\">Nick Jobbings&#8217;s website is <A HREF=\"https:\/\/aminorfactotum.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">aminorfactotum.wordpress.com<\/A>.<\/div>\n<div id=\"expander\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1970 pinky violence series <I>Stray Cat Rock<\/I> stars the great Meiko Kaji as the leader of a badass girl gang.<br \/>\n<i><b>Comic Strip Review by Nick Jobbings<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,654],"tags":[557,522,358,1137],"class_list":["post-5315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic-strip-reviews","category-dvd-and-blu-ray-releases","tag-asian-film","tag-japanese-film","tag-meiko-kaji","tag-pinky-violence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/purUP-1nJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2247,"url":"https:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2012\/04\/02\/lady-snowblood-blizzard-from-the-netherworld\/","url_meta":{"origin":5315,"position":0},"title":"Lady Snowblood: Blizzard from the Netherworld","author":"VirginieSelavy","date":"April 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Lady Snowblood started her life as the heroine of a manga written by Kazuo Koike in the early 70s, before being incarnated by the actress Meiko Kaji. 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