Sukeban Deka: Kôdo nêmu = Asamiya Saki (2006)

Director:

Kenta Fukasaku

Writers:

Shoichi Maruyama (writer)
Shinji Wada (manga "Sukeban Deka")

Release Date:

30 September 2006 (Japan)

Genre:

Action

Plot:

Recruited by a clandestine police organization, "K" must stop a plot by student radicals to create anarchy in Japan...

Plot Keywords:

Yo Yo | School | Katana Sword | Bully | Bank Robbery

Cast

Aya Matsuura	...	Saki Asamiya
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Rika Ishikawa	...	Reika Akiyama
Shunsuke Kubozuka	...	Jiro Kimura
Erika Miyoshi	...	Kotomi Kanda
Mark Musashi	...	Wu
Hiroyuki Nagato	...	Kurayami Shirei
Yui Okada	...	Taie Kono
Yuki Saitô	...	Saki's Mother
Tak Sakaguchi	...	Romeo's thug
Riki Takeuchi	...	Kazutoshi Kira

Also Known As:

Yo-Yo Girl Cop (International: English title)
Yo-Yo Girl Cop: Codename - Saki Asamiya (International: English title) (literal title)

Runtime:

Japan:98 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Japan:PG-12

Company:

Fukasaku-gumi

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Saki chases a bomb-carrying classmate into a shopping mall. It's bright sunshine outside when they enter the mall, but on several occasions inside, skylights are visible showing that it is night outside. As the DVD featurette reveals, the mall interior sequences were filmed late at night.

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in Sukepan deka: Bâjin nêmu = Moromie Saki (2006) (V)

Soundtrack:

Thanks

Tokyo Action

Aya Matsuura plays a secret agent who infiltrates a school in order to ascertain why a website called Enola Gay is starting a countdown. A countdown to what? Her job is to try to stop terrorists. Her weapon is a steel yo-yo (hence the title). The story unfolds by days, day one being 48 hours or so left. So, this is an agent posing as a high school student, schoolgirl uniform and all. Hot? Absolutely. She befriends a suicidal high school student and this helps her cause. The story is convoluted in its storytelling, but the action is good. Ms. Matsuura is very sexy, a major plus for this kind of film. I'm sure the filmmaker never set out to make Best Picture, but the story has some entertainment value. It probably should have had more action, but that is a judgment call. If you like this genre, by all means go to see it.