Arrow filmsa perky high-schooler takes on the mob in sailor suit and machine gun, a one-of-a-kind genre-bender that riffs on the yakuza film, coming-of-age drama and 'idol movie', inventively adapted from jiro akagawa's popular novel by director shinji somai typhoon club, wait and see , a massively influential figure in japanese cinema whose work has been little seen outside his homeland.Hoshi izumi is a young innocent forced to grow up quickly when her father dies and she finds herself next in line as the boss of a moribund yakuza clan. Wrenched from the security of her classroom and thrust into the heart of the criminal underworld, she must come to terms with the fact that her actions hold the key to the life or death of the men under her command as they come under fire from rival gangs.Presented in both its original theatrical and longer complete versions, and the first time one of somai's films has been released on home video in the west, this landmark work from his early career was responsible for launching teen talent hiroko yakushimaru legend of the eight samurai detective story as the iconic face of a generation, with the catchy theme song she performs indelibly etched into the zeitgeist of early-1980s japan.Special featureshigh definition blu-raytm 1080p presentations of the original theatrical version and the 1982 complete version kanpeki-ban re-issue of the film, restored by kadokawa pictures from a 4k scan of the original negativeoriginal uncompressed japanese...
Arrow filmsa perky high-schooler takes on the mob in sailor suit and machine gun, a one-of-a-kind genre-bender that riffs on the yakuza film, coming-of-age drama
