Above is a rare poster for a 1971 Japanese film entitled The Lovely Wicked Woman, or possibly The Lovely Bad Woman. You won’t find any info about the production online because for some reason all the movie databases we consulted refer to it as Cute Vanity Fair. But trust us, this poster doesn’t say “cute vanity fair”, and we seriously doubt the movie was ever released in the West under that highly dubious title. Anyway, whatever you call the film, it was directed by Inoue Umetsugu and starred Bunjaku Han in a story of murder and intrigue centered around a tabloid newspaper. Han appeared in about twenty-five movies, including the classic pinku serial Stray Cat Rock, and starred on television scores of times before dying prematurely in 2002 at the age of 54. We’ll have a bit more on her later.