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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

Sêrâ-fuku to kikanjû

Japan

1981

112 Min
Color
Japanese
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DIR Shinji Sômai

EXEC Haruki Kadokawa, Hidenori Taga

PROD Kei Ijichi

SCR Yôzô Tanaka, Jirô Akagawa

DP Seizō Sengen

CAST Hiroko Yakushimaru, Tsunehiko Watase, Rentarô Mikuni, Yuki Kazamatsuri, Kazuo Kitamura, Akira Emoto, Masaaki Daimon, Makoto Satō, Minori Terada, Kamatari Fujiwara

ED Akira Suzuki

MUSIC Katsu Hoshi

Edinburgh (Retrospective: Shinji Somai)

Synopsis

A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organisation, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership. This mixture of deadpan comedy and outlandish action was a smash hit in Japan. A generation of young Japanese women grew up reciting lines of dialogue from this movie. –Edinburgh International Film Festival

Director

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Shinji Sômai

Shinji Sōmai (相米 慎二, Sōmai Shinji?, 13 January 1948 – 9 September 2001) was a Japanese film director. He directed 13 films between 1980 and 2000. His film Ohikkoshi was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. —wikipedia 

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