A dictionary of japanese slang 1 says that sukeban only refers to the leader of a girl gang, not any member of the girl gang. Visit weird retros website at uk follow us on facebook. Girl boss guerilla, sukeban gerira is a 1972 japanese film in the sukeban delinquent girl subgenre of toeis pinky violence style of pink film. Both stared in numerous sukeban films throughout the 1970s and helped build a generation of toei porn.
But try as she might, she just can t get the hang of the straight life. Delinquent girl boss, with hopes of seeing a nascent version of the coldeyed badassery kaji would evince in those later films will be at least a little disappointed. The weissers, in their japanese cinema encyclopedia. May 06, 2017 stray cat rock delinquent girl boss 1970 22. The first part of the noraneko rokku alley cat rock series was originally nikkatsu studios answer to the rivaling toei studios delinquent boss series, but spawned four sequels thanks to its popularity. Major studio toei launched its pinky violence series with delinquent girl boss in the early 70s, later followed by norifumi suzukis girl boss sukeban films and the terrifying girls high school series. After helping a pregnant girl escape from their reform school and facing the resulting punishment, a clique of delinquent girls eventually reunites a year later in tokyo to face different challenges in the form of yakuza and street vendors. Worthless to confess has been ranked 317 times, wins 44. Yume wa yoru hiraku 1970 the first film of the delinquent girl boss series starring reiko oshida. Worthless to confess 1971 starring tsunehiko watase and nobuo kaneko on dvd and bluray. Top delinquent japanese dramas 2018 muzzy spectrum ep 03 break away feat. In the beginning, three girl gang leaders maya, ryoko and komasa escape while enroute to a reformatory school.
Production immediately went underway on a followup. The toeis delinquent girl boss series was started in september 1970 as an answer to the successful nikkatsus stray. Its quite a good film really, if youre a genre lover that is. Pinky violence delinquent girl boss series, each of which was directed by. Jan 02, 2015 the third movie in the girl boss series of pinky violence movies. Female boss to be better than toeis delinquent boss series, with which it was meant to compete, and call the series, a prime example of sexually orientedaction movies, five excellent entries over a two year period. By the way, is it possible to find the third of the series. Mar 29, 2008 blossoming night dreams is the first in the delinquent girl boss series, as well as toeis first entry in the pinky violence genre. Delinquent girl boss 19701971 the movie database tmdb. Reiko oshida stars as a young wannabe gangster tough girl, just released from reform. A car, loaded with delinquent girls, is headed to reform school when it crashes and the girls escape to freedom. By signing up for an account on tmdb, you can post directly to twitter and facebook. The delinquent girl boss series was most likely intended as toeis answer to nikkatsus popular stray cat rock movies 19701971 as well as sister series to toeis own furyo bancho aka delinquent boss, juvenile boss and wolves of the city bosozoku biker inspired series the girl gang films were most definitely increasing in popularity, but not yet too down and dirty at this.
But try as she might, she just can t get the hang of the. A car, loaded with delinquent girls, is headed to reform school when it crashes and the girls. Delinquent anime girl guide sukeban yankee bosozoku. She finds herself back in the big city where the hippie revolution has taken hold.
The girl gang films were pop, but not yet too down and dirty. This is the first of the series and is filled with moments that make the series a success with fans of this era of japanese teensploitation films colorful rock bands in sweaty nightclubs, loud fashions, and unlikely antiheroes. Ballad of yokohama hoods january 3, 1971 the local yakuza gangs dominating the port of yokohama do not take well the invasion of their territory by a daring biker gang, led by a girl in black leather outfit and cowboy hat reminiscent of the earlier war victors. Mar 10, 2017 continuing a dive into meiko kajis past performances i decided to check out delinquent girl boss 1970, the first movie in the stray cat rock series. The screenplay is good, very clear in developing all the various subplots. Delinquent girl boss gaijin rider yanki and bosozoku culture. The delinquent girl boss series was most likely intended as toeis answer to nikkatsus popular stray cat rock movies 19701971 as well as sister series to toeis own furyo bancho series.
Delinquent girl boss was released in may 1970 and was a huge success. While the films are all interesting sex hunter and mechanical animal are the standouts with wild jumbo, delinquent girl boss, and beat 71 all vary from good to ok, none of the films are truly bad. Remembering japans badass 70s schoolgirl gangs dazed. It is the first entry in the fivefilm alleycat rock or stray cat rock series and was. This movie is very rare and i wanted it long time ago. Rika and the girls are watching abashiri prison and cheering for ken takakura this was a clever reference as most of the delinquent girl boss films featured a heroic male character heavily influenced by takakura. Find the latest news, discussion, and photos of delinquent girl boss. She tracks down one of her classmates fathers, who runs an auto repair shop that the local yakuza are trying to force out of business and take over, and starts working for him. This 3rd chapter is very important in the delinquent girl boss series as we are told the origins of rika as an orphan in yokohama. Blossoming night dreams is one of the lighter films in.
Lets look at the anime history of delinquent anime girls, focusing on sukeban, yankee and bosozoku subcultures. The stray cat rock series has a level of bizarre japanese approximations of western culture, with each film being similar crime films. I have this movie already but this print of yours is way better. Ballad of yokohama hoods, third in the delinquent girl boss series, with reiko oshida reprising her role as the ass kicking rika kageyama. Jan 09, 2018 however, those coming to the first film in the series, stray cat rock. Stray cat rock delinquent girl boss 1970 12 dailymotion video. She finds herself back in the big city where the hippie revolution has taken hold and psychedelics are a way of life. Wild jumbo premiered in august that same year, just three months after the original. Delinquent girl boss 1970 a wandering tough biker girl aids a female delinquent gang in their battles against an allmale seiyu group over a fixed boxing match.
The film opens with young tearaway rika reiko oshida lockedup and creating mayhem in a reform school. Reiko oshida stars as a young wannabe gangster tough girl, just released from reform school. Alley cat rock series was originally nikkatsu studios answer to the rivaling toei studios delinquent boss series, but spawned four sequels thanks to its popularity. The delinquent girl boss series was most likely intended as toeis answer to nikkatsus popular stray cat rock movies 19701971 as well as sister series to toeis own furyo bancho aka delinquent boss, juvenile boss and wolves of the city bosozoku biker inspired series. The delinquent girl boss series was most likely intended as toeis answer to nikkatsus popular stray cat rock movies 19701971 as well as. Blossoming night dreams is a pink violence classic starring reiko oshida and junko miyazono.
This second component of the delinquent girl boss series feels a bit like a quick cash in on the success associated with original although thats not to state its in any way a bad motion picture. Worthless to confess is the first of these films we will be sampling, although it turns out that while it is certainly a great film, its not exactly what you might call indicative of the trend as a whole neither, for that matter, was stray cat rock. Ballad of yokohama hoods is a film directed by kazuhiko yamaguchi with reiko oshida, toru yuri, yukie gagawa, tonpei hidari, year. Delinquent girl boss after reform school, rika tries her hand at becoming a decent, upstanding citizen. Constructed much like russ meyers movies in the us. The first film in the delinquent girl boss series sees rika. Throughout the series, they alternately work together and against each other to gain control of their new turf. The first film in the delinquent girl boss series sees rika as a freshly graduated reform school delinquent.
Bunjaku han 19482002 bunjaku han was born on april 15, 1948 in tokyo, japan as fan wenshiao. The third movie in the girl boss series of pinky violence movies. Music, fashion and energetic performances by the female leads mattered more than sex and. The toeis delinquent girl boss series was started in september 1970 as an answer to the successful nikkatsus stray cat rock series which dates just 4 months before. With reiko oshida, masumi tachibana, yukie kagawa, keiko fuji. Spurred to jump into the game by the success of nikkatsus stray cat rock series of female delinquent films, the studio would go on to make the pv genre their own through more brazenly exploitative franchises like the aforementioned terrifying girls high. Blossoming night dreams is the first in the delinquent girl boss series, as well as toeis first entry in the pinky violence genre. Here, instead of psychedelic filmaking and youthculture stories of the nikkatsu movies, we have the typical and magical toei. Other series in the pinky violence genre included norifumi suzukis girl boss films, and the terrifying girls high school films, both starring reiko ike and miki sugimoto. Yume wa yoru hiraku is the first of four films in the toei, pinky violence delinquent girl boss series, each of which was directed by kazuhiko yamaguchi.
Girl boss guerilla, girl boss sukeban sukeban series and so many more. In the first of what would become a successful fivefilm series, stray cat rock. While perhaps not as is being suggested on the dvd box cover art that this movie is the original pinky violence classic, it certainly is a pinky violence classic, one of many that toei studio had in production at that time. Delinquent girl boss worthless to confess 1971 dvdrip 1. Worthless to confess still has its moments and is not a complete waste of time for fans of this type of film. Delinquent girl boss, was director yasuharu hasebes first installment of a five part series for the infamous nikkatsu studio, starring the legendary meiko kaji female prisoner scorpion and introducing the korean born akiko wada, who at the time and still to this day was widely known throughout japan for her tremendous singing ability. Just like the previous three, it opens with a reform school intro. Delinquent girl boss girl boss revenge double feature. At one point we see her selling softcore films to sailors in a very humorous scene. Bunjaku han was born on april 15, 1948 in tokyo, japan as fan wenshiao.
After a brief introductory sequence on campus, we flash forward to the outside world, rika having been released and allowed a chance at the straight and narrow, with a respectable job and a wholesome new image. Miki sugimoto is almost inseparable from fellow 1970s toei film star reiko ike. Delinquent girl boss is the first in a series of five films from early 70s japan. The sequels are worth seeing too if you like the first one, but delinquent girl boss or whatever its correct english title is may be the best starting place to the series after all, even though the movies are not really connected in terms of plot. The series was launched with the delinquent girl boss zubeko bancho films starring reiko oshida. We managed to track down a copy of this and took a gander. I have to admit that im not an expert when it comes to pinky violence, but the fact that this film features the delinquent boss subtitle lead me to believe that it was a part of the delinquent girl boss series, which often starred reiko oshida.
Female boss to be better than toeis delinquent boss series. Onna bancho bad girl boss collection, four sadosexual tales of female delinquents and their various brushes with danger and vengeance. Lady snowblood, the stray cat rock series all made between 197071, a golden age of japanese. In order to save the casual browser of this site some time and effort i have compiled a list of the four films of the delinquent girl boss series in order of production. The dvd features a nice looking anamorphic widescreen print of the film, as well as a. A dictionary of japanese slang says that sukeban only refers to the leader of a girl gang, not any member of the girl gang. Initially inten ded as a star vehicle for the popular singer akiko wada, from the second film onwards it would be kaji who scored top billing, and wada soon disappeared from the cast.
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