Sukeban Gerira

Dude, I've blogged about this on the FSMC page. I LOVE this film and I've seen it three times in about four months. Needless to say; it comes highly recommended. (The above video is a link to the entire flick, but you're better off getting the disc from Netflix for the audio commentary and better quality.)

While people were cramming into seedy theaters in Times Square during the 70s to see the Grindhouse film de jour, the Japanese were gettin' down with their Pinky Violence genre (aka Pink Film or softcore sexploitation) in no doubt equally scummy theaters. This flick is the third in a series of seven movies that focus on girl crime bosses. I watched it again last night with the Flying Skülls cuz Sukeban Gerira is about an outlaw female motorcycle club called the Red Helmet Gang. While the motorcycles aren't exactly aplenty, most everyone in attendance thoroughly enjoyed it. It's hard not to with so many bad ass chicks showin' their boobs every two minutes and getting in gnarly chick fights.

My cohort, PH (you can ask me what that stands for later), said it reminded him of the flick Bitch Slap. I checked that out real quick and that seems to be an accurate comparison. Bitch Slap is streaming on Netflix. It's a 2009 throwback to 70's sexploitation films. Looks tight (if that's what you're into for an evening) so I added it to my queue. I hope it's even 1/4 as good as Black Dynamite!

Anyway, back to the hot asian bikers at hand...
If you rent the dvd from Netflix then watch the movie a second time with the audio commentary on. I found it really illuminating. There are a couple über nerds going on about the cast and whatnot, but I found the societal perspective of the film rather interesting. What seems like a straight up exploitation flick on the surface is actually deeper if you look into the context of what's going on. I'm sure living in Japan as seeing this film in the early 70's would be really cool and slightly shocking. At its heart its a film about rebellion and rejection of normal society, uptight tradition, bullshit establishments, and 'the Man'; which is something we can always dig! FTW!

She's so freakin hot in this flick.