The Streets of Bangkok is based on the Boris Karloff film The Mask of Fu Manchu and it finds Jean Rollin not on a beach or a falling to pieces mansion with vampires living inside clocks, but instead a comic book mystery. Don’t worry. He didn’t forget to have naked women in it.

Secret agent Rick (Gérard Landry) is killed looking for a biological weapon. The photos on his camera are of a sex worker named Eva (Yoko) who is now wanted by the spies and the syndicate. The syndicate! What is this, a Doris Wishman movie? Rita (Brigitte Borghese) and her two female hitwomen are everywhere looking for our heroine.

Eva is rescued by Claudine (Françoise Blanchard, The Living Dead Girl), but they’re soon in the clutches of the syndicate and Eva gets chained up and whipped because Eurosleaze. There’s also a lot of scenes of Eva dancing — Yoko only did two other films, both adult movies but at least one was a James Bond parody, James Bande 00Sex 2 (thanks Gentry on Letterboxd) — but she’s good in this and, as you’d expect from a Rollin movie, inordinately attractive.

This has the biggest mud wrestling arena I’ve ever seen, Françoise Blanchard rocking a mullet and an ending that has the good guy prove he’s not so good and Eva shooting him with tears pouring down her face. And people tied to the train tracks and endless massage scenes!

You might be bored by this. As for me, I found the joy that is the weird timing of a Rollin movie, just endlessly hanging out near the infinite void as he makes a Jess Franco movie, pretty much.