Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

Original title: Sêrâ-fuku to kikanjû

1981
2h 11m

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A teenage delinquent schoolgirl named Izumi Hoshi inherits her father's Yakuza clan.A teenage delinquent schoolgirl named Izumi Hoshi inherits her father's Yakuza clan.A teenage delinquent schoolgirl named Izumi Hoshi inherits her father's Yakuza clan.

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6.4/10

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Awards
- 3 wins & 1 nomination total

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Followed by Sêrâ-fuku to kikanjû: Sotsugyô (2016)

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7/10

An unusual yakuza movie

A great title and a great poster, and a movie that's overall pretty good. Sailor Suit and Machine Gun is definitely a strange and flawed film, but there's a lot to like, and watching the 132-minute cut, I feel like there were only a small number of places where it dragged a little.

This movie's about a teenage girl who gets made the head of a yakuza gang. Tonally, it's a little quirky in parts, but I don't knowing I could call it a comedy (you'd expect a movie with this premise to be one), and there are certainly some disturbing sequences in here, too, which make things feel very serious at times.

The abundance of long takes is also interesting. One near the end breaks the reality/logic of the film in a way that confused me, but most of them work well and are overall impressive to see play out.