This is the Japanese version of D.E.B.S. It is cheese filled. It spoofs the Okinawa independence movement. Yuki (Megumi Shôji) was born during a riot by a woman with a ball under her dress.She enters the Orion Dancer Academy where she is chosen, along with three other dancers to be assassins/spies.
They must learn to dodge bullets and to choreograph their moves. Bad guys include a man in a Tyvek suit with respirator armed with a CO2 extinguisher and a frogman with a duck on his head. The dancers' weapons include Ninja stars and a fake boob filled with gas.
The film had me laughing in a few spots. In one scene as the girls run away, one of this tough assassins is failing her arms about in a very girly fashion. While the film doesn't mention Okinawa by name, it is apparent the southern Kingdom with numerous US military bases is said island. The film would certainly have more meaning in Japan as they make fun of their neighbors to the south, perhaps while Okinawa sees it differently. Sort of like all those popular TV shows of the 60's that showed southerners in a bad light, but southerners loved.
They must learn to dodge bullets and to choreograph their moves. Bad guys include a man in a Tyvek suit with respirator armed with a CO2 extinguisher and a frogman with a duck on his head. The dancers' weapons include Ninja stars and a fake boob filled with gas.
The film had me laughing in a few spots. In one scene as the girls run away, one of this tough assassins is failing her arms about in a very girly fashion. While the film doesn't mention Okinawa by name, it is apparent the southern Kingdom with numerous US military bases is said island. The film would certainly have more meaning in Japan as they make fun of their neighbors to the south, perhaps while Okinawa sees it differently. Sort of like all those popular TV shows of the 60's that showed southerners in a bad light, but southerners loved.