Sukeban Deka: Kôdo nêmu = Asamiya Saki (2006)

User Rating:

5.2/10   

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
Hiroyuki Nagato	...	Kurayami Shirei
Yui Okada	...	Taie Kono
Yuki Saito	...	Saki's Mother
Tak Sakaguchi	...	Romeo's thug
Riki Takeuchi	...	Kazutoshi Kira

Also Known As:

Yo-Yo Girl Cop (International: English 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

Don't think. No, just don't.

I didn't know anything about this franchise when I dived in to this movie. I still don't. Maybe it's for the best. In terms of plot holes and 'what did just happen and why?' this goes so much beyond the basic action movie formula it's... Don't really know the word for it. You get the feeling there's lot of stuff that's just left out. If it were a Hollywood movie, it would feel like producer or distributing company intervention of the worst kind. But really, with my experience with Asian cinema, I really don't know. Maybe it's just the makers expect the audience to know the background or something?

So, it was really weird. But wow, I liked it. I admit (like others have said) it's slow in the middle. And when it picks up... Well I laughed. In a good way. Overall, it's really not that heavy on the action.

Just don't think about much... Or anything, and maybe you'll enjoy this as much as I did.