Yo Yo Girl Cop by Fukasaku Kenta (2006)
9 August 2007A low budget Japanese action film adapted from a Manga. Low budget fun, and all worth the end showdown with the battles with yo yo’s. The action is fun, the girls are cute, and the story is as silly as can possibly be, but totally fun. I hope they do a sequel. Silly fun.
K (Matsuura Aya) is found with an expired visa in the US, with her mother being suspected as a spy, a Japanese cop is brought over to deal with the daughter, who has caused some serious damage. The cop is Detective Kira Kazutoshi (Takeuchi RIki) who worked with her mother when she was a secret agent. The Japanese use young girls as special agents, and they give K a deal to become secret agent Asamiya Saki with only a metal yo yo that doubles as a police badge, and the deal is that if they do it, they will get her mother released from jail and cleared from spying charges. Saki is sent into a high school to investigate a suspected terrorist web site known as “Enola Gay” and some rumors of explosions, and the last agent sent in exploded in central Tokyo with a bomb strapped to her. Another branch of the government has also sent an agent in as there is a 48 hour countdown and the police need to know to what.
REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS…
Saki meets a super cute girl who is constantly bullied named Kono Taie (Okada Yui), who is being bulled by the school popular girl Akiyama Reika (Ishikawa Rika). And Saki goes after the chemistry club, who she finds are making bombs. One is taken by the cult leader, Romeo (Kubozuka Shunsuke) and the other taken by Kira, but he is released, and quickly taken by the cult.
Eventually Taie tells Saki her story, that a year before her best friend (Miyoshi Erika) a year before had lost it and tried to blow up the teacher at her school who had watched her being bullied. Saki finds out from Akiyama, who was the other undercover, but now works for Romeo, that she got the bomb from Romeo. Taie tells Saki the whole story, of how they were both outcasts, and they made a web site for outcasts, but when her friend was put away, someone else took over the web site and perverted the ideal, and is making a giant suicide club, which will culminate at a school meeting the next day. Saki promises to protect Taie
Saki goes to tell Saki what is going on and then gets picked up by Romeo, who along with his many followers, lock her up. And Akiyama tricks Taie and gets her to pretend to be Romeo and to go to the meeting strapped with bombs to blow up all the kids, though she doesn’t want to do it. Saki shows up to save the day, but Taie is taken by Akiyama, and Saki must go and get her as well as the chemistry students. This time she dress up in a bad ass leather outfit and goes to save her one true friend, but she must battle Akiyama who has a bladed yo yo and has obviously used it more, but is still defeated. Then Saki goes and defeats all the bad guys, and finally fights and defeats Romeo, who blows himself up, and saves her friend and the chemistry students.
At the end Saki talks to her mom, and finds out that Kira got his limp saving her mom (and we also suspect he is actually Saki’s father), and she goes to be with her friends, but she does take her yo yo.
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Great silly and ridiculous fun!