Yo-Yo Girl Cop
| Movie | |
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| German title | Yo-Yo Girl Cop |
| Original title | ス ケ バ ン 刑事 コ ー ド ネ ー ム = 麻 宮 サ キ |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kenta Fukasaku |
| script | Shōichi Maruyama |
| production |
Masatake Kondo , Tatsuya Kunimatsu |
| music | Gorō Yasukawa |
| camera | Takashi Komatsu |
| cut | Chieko Suzaki |
| occupation | |
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Yo-Yo Girl Cop ( Japanese ス ケ バ ン 刑事 コ ー ド ネ ー ム = 麻 宮 サ キ , Sukeban Deka: Kōdonēmu [Codename] = Asamiya Saki ) is a Japanese action film from 2006, based on the Shōjo - Manga Sukeban Deka by Shinji Wokeban Deka . Kenta Fukasaku directed the film .
In addition to a television series divided into three seasons and a two-part original video animation, the work is the third cinema adaptation of the popular material. All live-action films have in common that the female lead is played by a Japanese idol . Yuki Saitō , who plays a small supporting role here, mimed the heroine Saki Asamiya as early as the 1980s (in the first season of the television series). Also Hiroyuki Nagato , Sakis superior, already participated in the previous two movies.
The production was released on September 30, 2006 in Japan and on August 22, 2007 in Germany on DVD.
action
A young Japanese woman living illegally in New York is arrested after several criminal offenses and deported to her home country . Her hated mother is also taken into custody by the US authorities, but is not expelled from the country due to personal involvement in an espionage affair and is only held for an indefinite period of time.
In Japan, the juvenile delinquent is met by the limping agent Kazutoshi Kira, a member of a secret organization specializing in juvenile delinquency . The liaison man proposes a deal to the rebellious girl: The Japanese authorities intensify their efforts to get the imprisoned mother free if the combative and rebellious youngster cooperates with the judiciary in return. Her job: as an undercover agent , she is supposed to infiltrate a private school in Tokyo in order to discover within three days the secrets of a manipulative website called "Enola Gay", which provides tortured students with instructions on how to build bombs. At the same time, it is supposed to decipher a mysterious countdown that comes from the unknown website operators and alleged students. The young woman who wears a schoolgirl uniform and is armed with a special yo-yo - from now on appears under the code name "Saki Asamiya" - becomes the eponymous "Girl Cop".
The educational establishment is characterized by teasing, harassment and ubiquitous bullying . The teaching staff closes itself to the problems and remains passive. Excluded students flee into the virtual world, the Enola Gay Internet presence is very popular. Newcomer Saki, on the other hand, does not fit into the prevailing school system, which provides for an allocation to victims and tormentors, and instead rushes to the aid of the petite outsider Tae when she is mistreated by her classmate Reika and her clique. A deep friendship develops between the introverted and socially isolated Tae and her savior Saki. The humiliated student finally leads the undercover investigator on the trail of two members of the chemical group, potential suicide bombers . After Saki thwarted an attack, she determined the existence of an unknown person named "Romeo", the central figure on the current website.
Saki finally learns that Tae and friend Kotomi are the founders of the relevant website, an original contact point for victims of bullying. They wanted to get attention and convince those responsible not to indulge in the usual inactivity. Since the two suffered from discrimination themselves, Kotomi bitterly embarked on a dangerous path. She confronted the teaching staff with a homemade bomb - the attempt failed and Kotomi was injured in a detonation. She was then admitted to the psychiatric ward, where she has lived ever since. The well-intentioned platform later degenerated into a dangerous institution.
Jirō, the self-proclaimed new "Romeo", is currently running the Internet portal for his own pleasure. At the same time he misuses it for his criminal machinations. He uses the fictitious countdown to gather humiliated students from all over Japan. The schoolchildren who have traveled, who are supposed to be victims of a devastating attack, only serve to distract the police from a brazen bank robbery . The manipulating Jirō selects Tae as a suicide bomber. Saki identified Jirō as an adversary and mortal enemy. At the end of the film she fights with all determination for her friend Tae and defeats the hostile Reika, as well as Jirō and his entourage with the help of her yo-yo. Tae is saved, Saki is rehabilitated. Saki's mother is released.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was an “elaborate” adventure staged “in a hectic montage staccato”.
Web links
- Yo-Yo Girl Cop in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Yo-Yo Girl Cop in the Lexicon of International Films