Pulp International - Vintage poster for Sukeban Tamatsuki asobi

Jan 4 2010

WHO'S THE BOSS

A matter of knife and death.

Above is a poster for Sukeban: Tamatsuki asobi, aka Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game, seventh in a series of Girl Boss movies. Earlier films featured Reiko Ike and Miki Sugimoto, but this entry stars lovely Yûko Kanô as—stop us if you’ve heard this one before—a gang leader who ends up taking on the local yakuza. Her Blood Cherry Blossom Gang is a tough group, so you can bet they'll make things uncomofrtable for their enemies. Like the earlier Girl Bosses, this entry has plenty of girl fights and nudity, as well as a pretty cool speedboat chase, and a group skinny-dipping scene. True, we’ve seen better movies, but we’ve also seen a lot worse. Sukeban: Tamatsuki asobi premiered in Japan in January of 1974.

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