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Girl Boss Guerilla

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This is the perfect film for the jaded film viewer. A delightfully amoral comedy/tradgedy this film combines girl gang violence with sex and even blasphemy. Miki Sugimoto is great as the leader of the red helmet gang combining a tough cool with supermodel good looks. A tale of love, revenge and sisterhood. If your a fan of either Japanese films or exploitation movies you will love this work of mad genius.

Girl Boss Guerilla is a film from the guy who directed Sex and Fury and stars Reiko and Miki Sugimoto as co-leaders of a Japanese female biker gang. The movie has all the elements of a classic Japanese bad girl film, violence, mischief, a few comedy scenes and sex and nudity. Girl Boss Guerilla may have been an inspiration for the many American bad girl films of the 1980's and 1990's.

Full of female bikers, gang violence, catfights, over-the-top exploitation and bubblegum grindhouse experience extraordinaire, this entry from cinema auteur Norifumi Suzuki (Amazon - get this man`s name right, would you?) expands on classic "bad girl" archetypes similiar to the 'Stray Cat Rock' series from the late 60`s (starring the iconic Meiko Kaji) with explosive abandon and glee. Miki Sugimoto('Terrifying Girls High School') is leader of The Red Helmet Gang, an all-girl biker group who travel to Kyoto amidst a bid to take over the turf of local rival girl gangs there. But it isn`t long before she and her crew run afoul of the local Yakuza, and are then forced to seek the assistance of Pinky Violence icon Reiko Ike ('Sex and Fury','Female Yakuza Tale','Girl Boss Revenge') for help. This 1972 flick from Suzuki ('School Of The Holy Beast','Star Of David:Hunting For Beautiful Girls',etc.) is a classic example of the films constantly plundered by Tarantino - it`s one thing to utilize them in a homage and another to outright rip them off, as he has repeatedly done, but I guess that`s the only way to re-introduce them to an American market that otherwise wouldn`t watch them. If you`re in Quentin`s Choir, you need to check this one out, as well as the others I`ve referenced here.

Let me start off by saying this films picture looks fantastic visually,along with good audio on dvd. The movie itself was a lot of fun to watch packed with action and sex. I have to say i really liked it but perhaps not for everyone as Japans urban culture is different then anything in the U.S. states in the early 70's . For me this just adds to the viewing experience. I highly reccommend to any fan of old Japanese grindhouse exploitation .

this is a great, great film... exactly like "the wild one" (1954) but make it an all-girl motorcycle gang using their sex and fist-fight violence to get what they want... then they split town!

Another Exploitation flick by Pinky violence...this one is nothing new. The actors are fun, and the plot though contrived and silly is also fun. There is some entertainment to be found in this film...but it is far from the best Pinky film.