Sêrâ-fuku to kikanjû (1981)

Sêrâ-fuku to kikanjû: Directed by Shinji Sômai. With Hiroko Yakushimaru, Tsunehiko Watase, Rentarô Mikuni, Yuki Kazamatsuri. A teenage delinquent schoolgirl named Izumi Hoshi inherits her father’s Yakuza clan.

“Based on a novel by Jiro Akagawa that was published by Kadokawa publishing company, u0026quot;Sera fuku to kikanjyuu0026quot; (sailor uniform and machine gun) was also Kadokawau0026#39;s (and then president Haruki Kadokawau0026#39;s) first attempt at movie targeted for teens and young adults featuring also a teenager in the starring role.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIzumi Hoshi (Hiroko Yakushimaru) is a normal high school student, until one day a horde of yazuka shows up at the gate of her school. Unbeknownst to her, her father was the head of a u0026quot;Medaka Gumiu0026quot; yakuza clan. His passing away prompted the soldiers to fetch her to become the next u0026quot;kumichou0026quot; or the head of the clan. Pror to passing away, her father smuggled a heroin, and that becomes the focus of rivaling yakuza clans to take possession. When one of her soldiers gets killed, Izumi reluctantly takes charge and starts to lead her troops to face the opposing yakuza clan – the only problem is Madaka Gumi only has four yakuza soldiers where the other clans have many more.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHiroko Yakushimaru shows her brilliant intelligence to lead the group of adults much older than her. The story seem to lack focus as different characters comes and goes, but the real focus is whereu0026#39;s the heroin, and who hid it ? Everyone is running after the heroin and much killing goes on to find it. This all soundu0026#39;s serious, but itu0026#39;s all done in light hearted fashion (how a killing can be light, you have to see this film) to appeal to the target audiences. Towards the end, Izumi while wearing her sailor suit school uniform takes a machine gun and goes into Futocchou0026#39;s (Rentaro Mikuni) office to settle the score and fires the machine gun in his office, exclaiming u0026quot;Kaikanu0026quot; (Feelu0026#39;s good) which was one of the defining moments in Japanese cinema at the time.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHiroko Yakushimaru goes on to becoming a successful movie and TV actor and is still active today.”