Streaming Sleepers: SAILOR SUIT AND MACHINE GUN, A Fully-Loaded Genre Classic
Heroines in sailor suit school uniforms and delinquent female badassery were a high mark in Showa era cinema. Sailor Suit And Machine Gun, Shinji Sowai’s satirical sophomore flick following his 1980 debut with Tonda Couple, proved to be a ubiquitous effort in setting a trend in film and TV that would span decades of fan fervor, even with Arrow Video revamping the film for its own release on Blu-Ray just several years ago. Thankfully, anyone new to the title and has access to Tubi can at long last check out the film, featuring Japanese idol Hiroko Yakushimaru who stars in the title role, and even sung the film’s title track, which was a chart topper in December of 1981. Based on Jiro Akagawa’s 1978 standalone novel of the same name and written for the screen by Yozo Tanaka, Yakushimaru plays Izumi Hoshi, a school girl suddenly thrust into gangland hierarchy […]