Yo-Yo Girl Cop (2006)

Original title

スケバン刑事 コードネーム=麻宮サキ

Directed by

Kenta Fukasaku

Genre

action film, martial arts film, girls with guns

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 39m

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 45 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A delinquent high school girl is recruited by the police and forced to use a yo-yo as her weapon on an undercover mission. She must infiltrate a school to stop a conspiracy involving a stolen bomb.

fast-pacedstylishcampytensenostalgichigh-energydramatic

What happens

Yo-Yo Girl Cop, known in Japan as Sukeban Deka: Code Name = Saki Asamiya (Japanese: スケバン刑事 コードネーム=麻宮サキ, Hepburn: Sukeban Deka: Kōdo Nēmu = Asamiya Saki) is a 2006 Japanese action film based on the 1975 manga Sukeban Deka by Shinji Wada. It was directed by Kenta Fukasaku and written by Shoichi Maruyama. The film stars Aya Matsuura in the lead role of Saki Asamiya and Rika Ishikawa as her rival, Reika Akiyama. Yuki Saito, who played the role of Saki in the first live-action television series, appears here as her original character, who is revealed to be Saki's mother. The film was released on September 30, 2006 in Japan and in the United States on July 17, 2007 by Magnolia Pictures as Yo-Yo Girl Cop. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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