Yo-Yo Girl Cop ...
K (pop starlette Aya Matsuura; blood type: B! favorite color: pink! favorite food: cookie dough ice cream!) is living on the mean streets of New York City and she's so dangerous that the NYPD deports her to Japan. There she meets up with Kira (Riki Takeuichi) a Japanese cop who wants her to go undercover in a local high school that has started generating lesbian, schoolgirl suicide bombers. K finally agrees and receives her weapon of choice: a razor-sharp yo-yo that keeps bonking her in the head every time she tries to use it. Too bad, because the alpha mean girl at the school, Reika (pop starlette, Rika Ishikawa (Blood type: A! Favorite color: pink! Dislikes: birds!) is also...a terrorist.
Tooth and claw girl fights to settle the fate of the world! High school soapoperatics that result in suicide bombings! Warehouse shoot-outs! Yo-yobattle! Remove your brain and place it somewhere safe before attending thisflick, and prepare to be marinated in 99 minutes of kitsch pop cultureapocalyptic noise that plays like Hello Kitty meets 24.
TRIVIA: Aya Matsuura, along with Maki Fujimoto, is GAM - a bubblegum pop duo that performed the YO-YO GIRL COP's main theme song. GAM is one of the many female groups created by producer/sonwriter Tsunku, under the umbrella of the Hello! Project.
Here Tsunku' provides some insights into what GAM is all about: "...the theme for these two is to deliver song which radiates from their legs and echoes within your heart! lets do that! A unit which sings a cool song with a dress that attracts people with their 'beautiful wonderful legs' is what we're aiming for!"
"Directed by Kenta Fukasaku, son of Kinji (Battle Royale), this 'trash-tastic guilty pleasure' pits the eponymous heroine against a high-school conspiracy of lesbian suicide bombers. Arigato, NYAFF!" - Nathan Lee, the Village Voice
"...brings to life a common teenage fantasy of defying various adult authority figures, putting the fear of God into one's enemies - and doing really neat stuff with a yo-yo." Mark Schilling, Japan Times
1 comment:
Glenn (fav colour: green, blood type: A+, dislikes: cats) really likes the sound of this. Wow man, it's got everything!
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