Shôrin shôjo (2008)

User Rating:

4.1/10   

Director:

Katsuyuki Motohiro

Writers:

Masashi Sogo (screenplay)
Rika Sogo (screenplay)

Release Date:

26 April 2008 (Japan)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Sport

Plot:

A Shaolin-trainer young woman returns to Japan to resuscitate her grandfather's defunct martial arts school. |

Plot Keywords:

Martial Arts | Sports Team | Soccer | Ball | Tram

Cast

Kou Shibasaki	...	Rin Sakurazawa (as Kô Shibasaki)
Tôru Nakamura	...	Yûichirô Ôba
Kitty Zhang Yuqi	...	Minmin Ryû (as Kithî Chan)
Kai Man Tin	...	Tin (as Tin Kaiman)
Chi Chung Lam	...	Ramu (as Ramu Chîchon)
Mami Yamasaki	...	Mami Shimizu
Asagi Kudô	...	Asagi Kondô
Kana Harada	...	Kana Kitano
Eri Otoguro	...	Eri Kuroiwa
Mayu Gamou	...	Mayu Yamada (as Mayu Gamô)
Asami Itô	...	Asami Tabuse
Yûko Chino	...	Yûko Kaji
Miho Chiyoya	...	Miho Takuma
Aina Nishiaki	...	Aina Ogata
Miyuu Sawai	...	Miyû Kanagawa (as Miyû Sawai)
Nana Yanagisawa	...	Nana Matsumoto
Asuka Ishii	...	Asuka Shii
Kimi Oie	...	Kimi Nakano
Asami Katsura	...	Asami Nagano
Naoko Watanabe	...	Naoko Yuasa
Ayasa Hanagata	...	Ayasa Nikai
Hikari Mitsushima	...	Hikari Takahashi
Akaji Maro	...	Rin's Master
Kôtarô Takeshita
Kazutoshi Yokoyama
Yû Kamio
Takashi Yo
Rie Minemura
Kotaro Shiga		(as Kôtarô Shiga)
Yuko Mano		(as Yûko Mano)
Catherine Seto		(as Katorînu Seto)
Kazuyoshi Hayashi
Kintarô Hara
Daijiro Kawaoka		(as Daijirô Kawaoka)
Munenori Nagano
Yoshiaki Yoza
Tsuyoshi Muro
Hideki Nagai
Jun Irie
Keiko Hiwatashi
Shûhei Yoshinaga
Tomonori Shimizu
Tatsuya Hino
Nozomi Kawada
Kazunari Uryû
Tatsuya Ishihara
Jun'ya Sakuma
Chika Uchida
Tatsuhiko Akashi
Shinsuke Kasai
Kazuhiro Watanabe
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Yôsuke Eguchi	...	Kenji Iwai
Masanori Ishii	...	Electronics Store Owner
Masahiro Komoto		(as Masahiro Kômoto)
Tortoise Matsumoto	...	Sports Shop Owner (as Tôtasu Matsumoto)
Takashi Okamura	...	Ryûji Tamura
Yoshiyuki Tomino	...	Rin's Grandfather

Directed by
Katsuyuki Motohiro

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Masashi Sogo		screenplay
Rika Sogo		screenplay

Produced by
Chikahiro Ando	....	producer (as Chikahiro Andô)
Stephen Chow	....	executive producer (as Shinchî Chau)
Chihiro Kameyama	....	producer
Yoshiaki Nakajima	....	producer
Fuyuhiko Nishi	....	producer
Hirotsugu Usui	....	producer

Original Music by
Yuugo Kanno		(as Yûgo Kanno)

Cinematography by
Akira Sako

Film Editing by
Takuya Taguchi

Sound Department
Frank Clary	....	assistant supervising sound editor
Tom Myers	....	sound designer/re-recording mixer
Larry Oatfield	....	foley editor
Don White	....	foley recording mixer

Stunts
Hidetaka Ichiyama	....	stunts
Fumihito Minamitsuji	....	stunts

Production Companies

• Fuji Television Network
• GAGA Communications
• Klock Worx Company, The
• Robot Communications
• S.D.P.
• Star Overseas

Distributors

• Festive Films (2008) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• GAGA Communications (2008) (worldwide) (theatrical)
• Golden Village Entertainment (2008) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Viva International Pictures (2009) (Philippines) (theatrical)
• EDKO Film (2008) (Hong Kong) (all media)
• EDKO Film (2009) (Hong Kong) (DVD)
• Fuji Television Network (2009) (Japan) (TV)
• Toho Company (2008) (Japan) (all media)

Special Effects

• Dandelion Animation Studio (visual effects)
• JINNI's Animation Studios (visual effects)
• Mozoo (motion capture)
• Omnibus Japan (visual effects)
• Tomason Company (visual effects)

Other Companies

• Imagica  digital intermediate
• Imagica  film processing
• Kodak Japan  film stock supplied by
• Okayasu Promotion  editing facility
• Sanwa Cine Equipment  camera equipment provided by
• Sanwa Pro Light  lighting equipment provided by
• Skywalker Sound  post-production sound services
• Toho Sound Studio  post-production sound studio
• Toho Studios  post-production facilities

Also Known As:

Shaolin Girl (International: English title)

Runtime:

107 min | Hong Kong:108 min

Country:

Japan | Hong Kong

Language:

Japanese | Mandarin | Cantonese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital EX

Certification:

Hong Kong:IIA | Singapore:PG | South Korea:12 | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB)

Company:

Fuji Television Network

Cross between Shaolin Soccer, Enter the Dragon and The Last Dragon

Overall this was a pretty good movie, though Japanese actors tend to over-act their parts too much making me want to punch the character Minmin on many occasions!

The title of my review pretty much sums up what this movie is about and how I took it. There was some fun action scenes that really keep you involved, but they are more over-the-top than the much better movie "Shaolin Soccer." A lot isn't explained in this film; i.e., they'll show you something, leave it alone for a long time (sometimes never addressing what it was all about) or just show you some arbitrary scene just to fill time.

I liked the film and think that anyone who wants to see a fun film in the similar vein of Shaolin Soccer or The Last Dragon should check it out. Don't expect anything too serious and try to ignore the cheesy acting you get from some characters. Oh yeah, a more apt name would have been "Shaolin Lacrosse" instead of Shaolin Girl, because that's pretty much what it is, like mentioned in the trivia facts on this site.