The
Rarest of the Sukeban Deka Films! SUKEBAN DEKA = BAD GIRL COPS
original Japanese title: SUKEBAN DEKA III:
HATTSU NO SHI NO WAN [Sukeban Deka 3: Eight Trapped Spirits]
also known as SUKEBAN DEKA: COUNTER ATTACK OF THE KAZAMA SISTERS and SUKEBAN DEKA 3: SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT (Japanese
Television
Title)
This
film, easily the rarest of the official series, mixes black magic with
inner departmental squabbling, as Yui accepts an assignment against
a devil-worshipping terrorist group while being forced to contend with
an overly aggressive female superior (who also may be a spy). Unlike
the first two movies, this one has as open-ended conclusion which is
a setup for the new TV series. In fact, a portion of this film was initially
aired as a television special in 1992, prior to it's theatrical run.
The
Deka world began as a manga written by Shinji Wada, called Sukeban
Deka Tales, premiering in 1972. It was developed for Fuji television
by Hideo Tanaka in 1978 and ran consistently for a decade. The three
movies followed, inspiring another TV-series in 1992. Nobody knows the
Deka world better than Hideo Tanaka as he directed every television
episode and motion picture since the inception.
The
first Deka star was Yuki Saito. She left the TV series in 1982
for a successful music career. Her replacement was Yuko Minamino who
added a melancholy somberness to the series. She stayed in the role
through the first movie, but had already announced her plans to leave
the schoolgirl character with the completion of that film. The studio
introduced her replacement, Yui Asaka, halfway through #1 as a Deka
Girl from a different prefecture. Yui was joined by two feisty sidekicks,
the Kazama Sisters, played by Yuka Ohnishi and Yumi Nakamura. After
this film, Yuka Ohnihi played the lead in FEMALE
NEO NINJAS.
A Japanese
film with English subtitles; fullscreen (4:3) format, (73 min.),
encoded for ALL REGION NTSC, playable on any American DVD machine;
extras include original trailer.
