This is based on the Manga and TV series. A continuation from the second season of the TV series including the lead actress playing Saki. A girl that uses a metal Yo-yo to fight in addition to some martial arts. This time fighting along with other girls against a school that is training soldiers for a uprising against the government.
There is a decent helping of action though at times could have been better choreographed. The acting was just okay. A number of jump cuts that I found distracting and were like missing pages of the script. Still, a decent movie that rarely slows down for long.
You don't need to have watched the TV series but I highly recommend it. The second season was better than the first but both excellent. The third season was just okay and kind of takes off after this movie. There are two movies that come after this one and both are better than this one.
Plot summary
After the events of the TV series, the 18 year old Yoko Godai has abandoned her special agent Saki Asamiya name to return to her normal life, and is now studying for college entrance exams. However, she accidentally bumps into a young man named Kazuo Hagiwara trying to escape from a group of hitmen, and learns that he comes from Sanko Academy, a private school located in a remote island known as Hell's Castle. The school is ruled by a former revolutionary thought to be dead named Hattori who is trying to brainwash students into terrorists to help him stage a fascist coup d'etat in Japan.
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Good effort but the TV series was better
Totally original, fetishized action fantasy with hot schoolgirls
Great Japanese pulp from director Hideo Tanaka is a fetishized fantasy about a bunch of Japanese schoolgirls who are recruited by a secret government organization to fight crime. The girls, who are ultra-cute and studious, are whisked off to an island where juvenile delinquents are being trained as terrorists. The girls' mission is to take down the island's leader and return the wayward youth to their parents. On paper, it is all highly improbable, but on the screen, it is scorchingly good. The use of steel yo-yo's by the girls is lots of fun and surprisingly bloody, as are the many violent confrontations and scenes of mortal menace. The film's tone is reminiscent of Bava's "Danger Diabolik" at times, but this is nastier and less campy overall. Like the excellent "Rapeman" series, the makers of this wonderful concoction know that insane subject matter must be approached totally seriously in order for it to travel. Breezy, violent, sexy and sentimental, this is totally original, peerless movie-making with hot schoolgirls. What could be better?
A Guilty Pleasure That Is Pure Fun!
Based on the Japanese Manga (Comic) series by Shinji Wada for Hana To Yume (Flowers and Dreams) Comics, Sukeban Deka (Female Juvenile Cop) was a series destined to be adapted for TV. The story of a young high school delinquent being recruited by a special police unit investigating juvenile crimes is oddly reminiscent of American shows such as the Mod Squad, and 21 Jump Street but the similarities ended there. This cop had a special weapon that you would not believe.a solid steel yo-yo that she would throw with the most deadly of accuracy to pummel her enemies and assailants. During its brief run from 1985 -1986 Sukeban Deka, the TV series launched the careers of its various young stars. Yuki Saito was the 1st and IMHO the best to take on the role of schoolgirl heroine Saki Asamia with Yoko Minami and Yui Asaka to follow her. This is the first movie of three to capitalize on the series and was used to bridge the second and third seasons of the series. Yoko Minami reprises her role as "the 2nd" Saki Asamia, a juvenile cop who has since `retired' and is determined to live a normal teenage life and complete her High School studies. Unfortunately for Saki trouble has an odd way of finding her as she stumbles upon a secret para-military organization that is planning to launch a coup on the Japanese Government using juvenile delinquents and school misfits as its soldiers. And wait until you get a load of their leader(Talk about implausibility!) Campy and over-the-top fun! Those who crave a serious, action story should stay clear of this series. Minami is great as Saki and Asaka is cute in her debut cameo as `the 3rd' Sukeban Deka (viewers should suspend their belief as you watch her try to take out a flying helicopter with one of her yo-yos). Soon followed by two movie sequels with Asaka as the lead and a two-part OVA (Original Video Animation) series.