Sukeban Deka - The Movie
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Sukeban Deka - The Movie |
| Original title | ス ケ バ ン 刑事 |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 1987 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hideo Tanaka |
| script |
Izō Hashimoto , Tokyo Tsuchiya |
| production |
Chiharu Nakasone , Osamu Tezuka , Tatsuo Inō |
| music | Ichirō Nitta |
| cut | Shinya Tadano |
| occupation | |
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Sukeban Deka - The Movie ( Jap. スケバン刑事 , dt "girl band chief criminal investigator.") Is a Japanese action film of Toei in collaboration with Fuji Television from 1987, based on the same Shōjo - manga by Shinji Wada . Directed by Hideo Tanaka . The work was released on February 14, 1987 in Japan and on September 21, 2007 in Germany (on DVD). The production was not dubbed and is therefore available in the Japanese original language with German subtitles.
The manga had previously been adapted by a 108-part television series that was broadcast in three seasons from 1985. The individual seasons are divided into three independent cycles with different Japanese idols in the role of the title heroine Saki Asamiya . In the first season, the character of Yuki Saitō , in the second season of Yōko Minamino and in the third season of Yui Asaka was impersonated. The series also includes two TV specials. The present production is the link between the second and third season of the television series.
The film learned in 1988 with Sukeban Deka - The Kazama Sisters strike back a straggler. In 2006, Yo-Yo Girl Cop , directed by Kenta Fukasaku, was another adaptation of the material.
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Eighteen-year-old schoolgirl Yōko Godai is an undercover undercover agent , code-named Saki Asamiya , who has been forced into police work and armed with a yo-yo to get rid of megalomaniac lawbreakers. One day the beauty in school uniform , whose origins are in the dark, decides to quit the police force.
Saki is jostled in the street by a fleeing passerby who loses some documents in the incident. The gullible woman picks up the files and follows the stranger into a public bus, in which two dark figures get on. When she wants to hand over her find, the owner reacts dismissively, almost apathetically. Saki realizes his plight and engages the two armed thugs in a fight. During the wild scuffle, the bus crashed. The few passengers pass out. When they wake up, Saki and the fugitive boy named Kazuo are tied up in the hands of criminals. The commanding officer Hattori, a cyborg , subsequently tortures the agent in order to get Kazuo to speak - which he succeeds.
Hattori is the seedy director of a private school whose primary goal is to re-educate students who have become conspicuous. In reality, however, he is planning an impending coup with the help of a top politician friend . To do this, he drills his protégés with military discipline on a small island not far from Tokyo. The boarding school is a paramilitary training facility for future assassins. Refugees like Kazuo and his missing friend Kikuo are mistreated and punished.
At some point, Saki and Kazuo manage to escape from the so-called "Hell Castle". Saki then visits a former colleague who spontaneously joins the duo to save the students. They are joined by Megumi, the little sister of the second refugee, Kikuo. After Saki gathers more comrades in arms, the troops are suddenly attacked. Kazuo is fatally injured. The embittered leading actress then intensified her efforts to free the involuntary recruits. Equipped with new super weapons, five of the girls finally reach the island, Hattori's base. There they are received with hostility, however. Megumi turns out to be a traitor. Nevertheless, Saki and her friends manage to cope with the situation, free the imprisoned students and help them escape. In a final show of strength, Saki and the repentant Megumi, who shortly thereafter succumbs to an injury, kill the villain Hattori and his entourage.
In the end, the Girl Cops and the students flee from the island, which is completely destroyed a little later in a huge explosion. In the last scene, the civil servant involved in the coup chooses suicide .
Awards
- 1988: Award in the Best Young Actor category for Yōko Minamino
- 1988: Sponichi Grand Prix for the best young actor for Yōko Minamino
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was a "trivial action epic" .
Web links
- Sukeban Deka - The Movie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sukeban Deka - The film in the online film database