Fucked Up Japan

Today I have an old Japanese movie for you, of the Yakuza-style-tough-girls-on-motorbikes-running-around-Kyoto style. Awesome movie, English subs with tough-girl Japanese language, nearly all filmed on location in central Kyoto. I realise the cover makes it look a little like a porn flick, but I promise you it isn’t.

Sukeban gerira (1972)

Miko Sugimoto is the leader of the Red Helmet Gang, a biker girl gang from Shinjuku who winds up in Kyoto and make a bid to take over the local girl gangs there. Successful for a short time in ruling the streets it isn’t long before Miko and her crew run afoul of the local Yakuza, and are forced to turn to Reiko Ike, a ronin Yakuza girl, and sister to one of the top Yakuza in Kyoto, for help, leading to a murderous showdown at a small coastal resort.

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This movie is being redistributed as part of the Pinky Violence Collection, a selection of Japanese girl violent movies. If anyone can find a source for the rest of this collection, please let me know!

“The Pinky Violence Collection - Includes Audio CD (Criminal Woman: Killing Melody/ Terrifying Girls’ High School: Lynch Law Classroom/ Girl Boss Guerilla/ Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless To Confess)” (Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Norifumi Suzuki, Atsushi Mihori)