Sexy Battle Girls
| Sexy Battle Girls | |
|---|---|
 official box art | |
| Directed by | Mototsugu Watanabe |
| Written by | Masumi Hirayanagi |
| Produced by | Ryu Inou |
| Starring | Kyōko Hashimoto Yukijiro Hotaru Yutaka Ikejima |
| Cinematography | Kazuto Kuramoto |
| Edited by | Shōji Sakai |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Shintōhō Eiga (Japan) Pink Eiga Inc. (USA) |
Release dates | June 1986 (Japan) February 23, 2009 (on DVD USA) |
Running time | 60 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Sexy Battle Girls (狙われた学園、制服を襲う, Nerawareta gakuen: seifuku o osou) AKA Target Campus: Attack the Uniform is a Japanese Pink film directed by Mototsugu Watanabe and starring Kyōko Hashimoto, Hotaru Yukijiro, and Yutaka Ikejima. The film was released in Japan in June 1986.[1][2] The film first appeared in the United States as Sexy Battle Girls at the San Francisco Independent film festival on February 14, 2009.[3][4] The film was released on DVD in the United States on February 23, 2009.[5][6]
Plot
When a high school girl, Mirai (Kyōko Hashimoto), gets transferred to a private school she finds that the evil headmaster (Yukijiro Hotaru) is selling the girls in the school to local politicians for sex. The headmaster is also the person who humiliated her father (Yutaka Ikejima). Mirai vows revenge and uses her body and her special ability, the "Venus Crush", as a weapon to avenge her family.[5][7]
Cast
- Kyōko Hashimoto as Mirai Asamiya
- Yukijiro Hotaru as headmaster Bush
- Yutaka Ikejima as Ken Asamiya
- Ayumi Taguchi as Susan Arashiyama
- Ayu Kiyokawa
- Saeko Fuji
- Reika Kazami
Production
Sexy Battle Girls was a spoof on Sukeban Deka, the popular manga and television series from the mid-1980s. In this film, the heroine wields a kendama instead of a yo-yo as in the original series.[7]
References
- ^ "Nerawareta gakuen: seifuku o osou - Release dates". The Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-03-09.
- ^ "狙われた学園 制服を襲う (Nerawareta gakuen: seifuku o osou)" (in Japanese). jmdb. Retrieved 2009-03-09.
- ^ "IndieFest takes a peek inside Japanese sex cinema". San Francisco Bay Guardian Online. Retrieved 2009-03-09.
- ^ "I AM CURIOUS (PINK): The Second Wave of Japanese Sex Cinema". San Francisco Independent Film Festival. Retrieved 2009-03-09.
- ^ a b "Official site of Sexy Battle Girls". Pink Eiga Inc. Retrieved 2009-03-09.
- ^ "Pink Eiga: "Sexy Battle Girls" and "A Lonely Cow Weeps At Dawn" DVD Launch & Special Discount". cinesploitation. Retrieved 2009-03-09.
- ^ a b Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books: Asian Cult Cinema Publications. pp. 425–426. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.
Reviews
- B, Mikey (2009-02-27). "Sexy Battle Girls (1986) - DVD Review". screamindemon.com. Archived from the original on May 24, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-09.
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- Perkins, Rodney (2008-11-13). "DVD Review: Mototsugu Watanabe's SEXY BATTLE GIRLS". twitch.net. Retrieved 2009-03-09. [dead link]
- "Sexy Battle Girls (1986 Review)". cinesploitation. 2009-03-01. Retrieved 2009-03-09.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - "Infini-Tropolis Review: Sexy Battle Girls (1986)". KamuiX. Infini-Tropolis. 2009-03-08. Retrieved 2009-03-10.
External links
- "Official site of Sexy battle Girls". pinkeiga.com. Retrieved 2009-03-06.
- Nerawareta gakuen: seifuku o osou at IMDb
- 狙われた学園 制服を襲う at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)