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* TheAlcoholic: Mayo really hits the skids during the 14 year TimeSkip. When he turns up to hire her, Nogi comments that she got herself off the drugs but had become an alcoholic in the process. At her lowest, she angrily flings a glass of booze away from her, but then, realising what she had done, starts licking the liquor off the barroom floor.
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* TimeSkip: The film starts with the newborn Ikko being abducted from the hospital, then jumps ahead six years to Ikko witnessing the massacre of her family and being smuggled out of the country by her father's agents. It then jumps ahead fourteen years to the 20 year-old Ikko returning to Tokyo to start her RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
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* AgeCut: The six year old Ikko disperses down the escalator at the airport. A 'SIXTEEN YEARS LATER' caption appears on the screen and the now adult Ikko appears coming up the escalator.
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* AgeCut: The six year old Ikko disperses disappears down the escalator at the airport. A 'SIXTEEN YEARS LATER' caption appears on the screen and the now adult Ikko appears coming up the escalator.
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* ElevatorActionScene: When Ikko is fighting her way into the penthouse where Chiaki is holed up, a gang of yakuza thugs who have being trying to stop her fall back into the lift. They breathe a sigh of relief as the doors start to close, thinking they have escaped her, only to realize as the doors finish closing that she is in there with them. Cut to the outside of the lift and the sound of gunfire.
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* ElevatorActionScene: ElevatorActionSequence: When Ikko is fighting her way into the penthouse where Chiaki is holed up, a gang of yakuza thugs who have being trying to stop her fall back into the lift. They breathe a sigh of relief as the doors start to close, thinking they have escaped her, only to realize as the doors finish closing that she is in there with them. Cut to the outside of the lift and the sound of gunfire.
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* ElevatorActionScene: When Ikko is fighting her way into the penthouse where Chiaki is holed up, a gang of yakuza thugs who have being trying to stop her fall back into the lift. They breathe a sigh of relief as the doors start to close, thinking they have escaped her, only to realize as the doors finish closing that she is in there with them. Cut to the outside of the lift and the sound of gunfire.
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* ShowSomeLeg: One of the two female assassins who knocks on Don Amaoka door is wearing a very short skirt. The bodyguard who answers the door is so distracted by her legs that he opens the door to them despite their dodgy story about blowing a fuse in their apartment.
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* BulletproofVest: Onda sets up Ikko by telling her where Nogi is going to be. Ikko turns up and shoots Nogi, but he survives because he wearing a bulletproof vest. After she is captured, she accuses him of being a coward for wearing one. In response, he takes the vest off, puts it on her, and shoots her several times in the chest.
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* GroinAttack: When is Ikko is knocked to floor while trying to kill Kosugi, one of Kosugi's guards tries to stomp her. As he is raising his leg, Ikko grabs a fallen gun and shoots in in the groin at point blank range.
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* GroinAttack: When is Ikko is knocked to floor while trying to kill Kosugi, one of Kosugi's guards tries to stomp her. As he is raising his leg, Ikko grabs a fallen gun and shoots in him in the groin at point blank range.
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* TakingTheBullet: During the final shootout, Mayo jumps in front of Ikko when Chiaki shoot at her: taking the bullet intended for Ikko.
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* TakingTheBullet: During the final shootout, Mayo jumps in front of Ikko when Chiaki shoot shoots at her: taking the bullet intended for Ikko.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When Nogi is on the phone to Chiaki, through the window his car his henchmen can be seen struggling to bury the body of the underling he just executed.
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* DirtyCop: Shinichi Onda is in the pocket of the yakuza. At the time of the original massacre, he is a patrolman who helps to cover it up. By the time Ikko returns to begin her RoaringRampageOfRevenge, he is a detective. It is eventually revealed that he has ambitions to become head of the yakuza.
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* ChildByRape: Ikko was conceived when Chiaki was raped as a teenager. Chiaki's father took the baby away at birth, telling Chiaki that the child had died, and gave Ikko to his mistress to raise. Hence, Chiaki and Ikko grew up [[FamilRelationshipSwitcheroo believeing they were half-sisters]].
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* ChildByRape: Ikko was conceived when Chiaki was raped as a teenager. Chiaki's father took the baby away at birth, telling Chiaki that the child had died, and gave Ikko to his mistress to raise. Hence, Chiaki and Ikko grew up [[FamilRelationshipSwitcheroo [[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo believeing they were half-sisters]].
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* ChildByRape: Ikko was conceived when Chiaki was raped as a teenager. Chiaki's father took the baby away at birth, telling Chiaki that the child had died, and gave Ikko to his mistress to raise. Hence, Chiaki and Ikko grew up [[FamilRelationshipSwitcheroo believeing they were half-sisters]].
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* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: Chiaki and Ikko believe they are half-sisters. In fact, they are mother and daughter. Ikko was Chiaki's ChildByRape. Chiaki's father removed the baby at birth, and told her that the baby had died. He gave the Ikko to his mistress, and she was raised beliving that she was their natural child.
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* BulletSparks: Appear any time someone shoots. When Nogi's men are herding Ikko towards him, their bullets even strike sparks off the wooden stairs.
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* TakingTheBullet: During the final shootout, Mayo jumps in front of Ikko when Chiaki shoot at her: taking the bullet intended for Ikko.
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* TakingTheBullet: During the final shootout, Mayo jumps in front of Ikko when Chiaki shoot at her: taking the bullet intended for Ikko.Ikko.
* TragicKeepsake: When Mayo puts Ikko on the plane to America after her family is massacred, she clips a keychain with a fuzzy mascot on it to her coat as a good luck charm. Ikko is still wearing it when she returns 14 years later to start her RoaringRampageOfRevenge. It is only when Mayo sees it dropped on the ground after she has ambushed her that she realizes who the girl she just handed over to Nogi is.
* TragicKeepsake: When Mayo puts Ikko on the plane to America after her family is massacred, she clips a keychain with a fuzzy mascot on it to her coat as a good luck charm. Ikko is still wearing it when she returns 14 years later to start her RoaringRampageOfRevenge. It is only when Mayo sees it dropped on the ground after she has ambushed her that she realizes who the girl she just handed over to Nogi is.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Ikko returns to Japan after fourteen years determined to kill everyone involved in the murder of her family.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Ikko returns to Japan after fourteen years determined to kill everyone involved in the murder of her family.family.
* TakingTheBullet: During the final shootout, Mayo jumps in front of Ikko when Chiaki shoot at her: taking the bullet intended for Ikko.
* TakingTheBullet: During the final shootout, Mayo jumps in front of Ikko when Chiaki shoot at her: taking the bullet intended for Ikko.
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* LukeIAmYourFather: Ikko discovers fairly late that Chiaki, the woman she is trying to kill is, is not her half-sister but actually her mother. In this case, neither woman knew this initially because Ikko was a ChildByRape and Chiaki's father removed the child at birth, telling Chiaki the child had died, and gave it to his mistress to raise.
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* AbandonedHospital: After capturing Ikko, Nogi holds her prisoner in a hospital that is undergoing refurbishment.
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* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: While Zill is beating up one of Nogi's thugs, the man's partner arrives and pulls a gun on him. As it looks he is about shoot Zill, there is a gunshot. The camera pulls out to reveal that Ikko has arrived and just the guy on the floor, cowing the one with the gun into dropping it.
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* CampingACrapper: When Ikko is being held prisoner the under construction building, Mayo waits till one of her guards goes to take a leak and garrotes him with a length of electrical cable.
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* CampingACrapper: When Ikko is being held prisoner the under construction building, AbandonedHospital, Mayo waits till one of her guards goes to take a leak and garrotes him with a length of electrical cable.
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* BatterUp: Zill is beaten up by a gang of Nogi's thugs wearing backwards baseball caps and wielding baseball bats. He subsequently dies from his injuries
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* BatterUp: Zill is beaten up by a gang of Nogi's thugs wearing backwards baseball caps and wielding baseball bats. He subsequently dies from his injuriesinjuries.
* CampingACrapper: When Ikko is being held prisoner the under construction building, Mayo waits till one of her guards goes to take a leak and garrotes him with a length of electrical cable.
* CampingACrapper: When Ikko is being held prisoner the under construction building, Mayo waits till one of her guards goes to take a leak and garrotes him with a length of electrical cable.
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* BatterUp: Zill is beaten up by a gang of Nogi's thugs wearing backwards baseball caps and wielding baseball bates.
* CoitusUninterruptus: Chiaki has a telep0hone conversation with Nogi while the senator is performing cunnilingus on her.
* CoitusUninterruptus: Chiaki has a telep0hone conversation with Nogi while the senator is performing cunnilingus on her.
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* BatterUp: Zill is beaten up by a gang of Nogi's thugs wearing backwards baseball caps and wielding baseball bates.
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* CoitusUninterruptus: Chiaki has atelep0hone telephone conversation with Nogi while the senator is performing cunnilingus on her.
* CoitusUninterruptus: Chiaki has a
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* AgeCut: The six year old Ikko disperses down the ecalator at the airport. A 'SIXTEEN YEARS LATER' caption appears on the screen and the now adult Ikko appears coming up the escalator.
* CoitusUninterruptus: Chiaki has a telep0hone conversation with Goro while the senator is performing cunnilingus on her.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: To prevent the hit team from cataching him after he has handed Ikko to Mayo, Yatsuda drives his car into two parked cars at a moderate speed and all three explode.
* CoitusUninterruptus: Chiaki has a telep0hone conversation with Goro while the senator is performing cunnilingus on her.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: To prevent the hit team from cataching him after he has handed Ikko to Mayo, Yatsuda drives his car into two parked cars at a moderate speed and all three explode.
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* AgeCut: The six year old Ikko disperses down the ecalator escalator at the airport. A 'SIXTEEN YEARS LATER' caption appears on the screen and the now adult Ikko appears coming up the escalator.
* BatterUp: Zill is beaten up by a gang of Nogi's thugs wearing backwards baseball caps and wielding baseball bates.
* CoitusUninterruptus: Chiaki has a telep0hone conversation withGoro Nogi while the senator is performing cunnilingus on her.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: To prevent the hit team fromcataching catching him after he has handed Ikko to Mayo, Yatsuda drives his car into two parked cars at a moderate speed and all three explode.
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* CoitusUninterruptus: Chiaki has a telep0hone conversation with Goro while the senator is performing cunnilingus on her.
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* GroinAttack: When is Ikko is knocked to floor while trying to kill Kosugi, one of Kosugi's guards tries to stomp her. As he is raising his leg, Ikko grabs a fallen gun and shoots in in the groin at point blank range.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Ikko returns to Japan after fourteen years determined to kill everyone involved in the murder of her family.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Ikko returns to Japan after fourteen years determined to kill everyone involved in the murder of her family.
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''Black Angel Vol. 1'' (''Kuro no tenshi Vol. 1'') is a 1997 Japanese film directed by Takashi Ishii. The film stars Riona Hazuki and Reiko Takashima.
Ikko, the six year old daughter of a yakuza gang boss witnesses the brutal slaying of her parents and is only saved from sharing their fate by an underground hitwoman who goes by the nom-de-guerre of "Black Angel." Years after escaping to America, Ikko returns to Tokyo as a young woman. She adopts the name "Black Angel" and is out for revenge.
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* AgeCut: The six year old Ikko disperses down the ecalator at the airport. A 'SIXTEEN YEARS LATER' caption appears on the screen and the now adult Ikko appears coming up the escalator.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: To prevent the hit team from cataching him after he has handed Ikko to Mayo, Yatsuda drives his car into two parked cars at a moderate speed and all three explode.
* GroinAttack: When is Ikko is knocked to floor while trying to kill Kosugi, one of Kosugi's guards tries to stomp her. As he is raising his leg, Ikko grabs a fallen gun and shoots in in the groin at point blank range.
Ikko, the six year old daughter of a yakuza gang boss witnesses the brutal slaying of her parents and is only saved from sharing their fate by an underground hitwoman who goes by the nom-de-guerre of "Black Angel." Years after escaping to America, Ikko returns to Tokyo as a young woman. She adopts the name "Black Angel" and is out for revenge.
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* AgeCut: The six year old Ikko disperses down the ecalator at the airport. A 'SIXTEEN YEARS LATER' caption appears on the screen and the now adult Ikko appears coming up the escalator.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: To prevent the hit team from cataching him after he has handed Ikko to Mayo, Yatsuda drives his car into two parked cars at a moderate speed and all three explode.
* GroinAttack: When is Ikko is knocked to floor while trying to kill Kosugi, one of Kosugi's guards tries to stomp her. As he is raising his leg, Ikko grabs a fallen gun and shoots in in the groin at point blank range.
