Sukeban Deka: Codename = Asamiya Saki
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| Directed by | Kenta Fukasaku |
| Produced by | Tatsuya Kunimatsu |
| Written by | Shoichi Maruyama |
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Aya Matsuura v-u-den Riki Takeuchi Shunsuke Kubozuka |
| Music by | Goro Yasukawa |
| Cinematography | Takashi Komatsu |
| Edited by | Chieko Suzaki |
| Distributed by | Toei Company |
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98 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Yo-Yo Girl Cop, known in Japan as Sukeban Deka: Code Name = Saki Asamiya (Japanese: スケバン刑事 コードネーム=麻宮サキ? Hepburn: Sukeban Deka: Kōdo Nēmu = Asamiya Saki) is a 2006 Japanese live-action feature film, the third to be based on the manga Sukeban Deka, directed by Kenta Fukasaku.
The film stars Aya Matsuura in the lead role of Saki Asamiya and Rika Ishikawa as her rival, Reika Akiyama. Yuki Saito, who played the role of Saki in the first live-action television series, appears here as her original character, who is revealed to be Saki's mother. The movie was released on September 30, 2006 in Japan and in the United States on July 17, 2007 by Magnolia Pictures as Yo-Yo Girl Cop.
Twenty years after the events of the original Sukeban Deka, a Japanese girl by the name of "K" (Aya Matsuura) is captured in New York and put on custody after beating 11 policemen. Although held in a straight jacket and a cage, she escapes by dislocating her sholder and tries to exit the facility, but a moment of kindess to comfort a lost little girl gets her captured again. K is then informed by Japanese inspector Kazutoshi Kira (Riki Takeuchi) that her mother will be deported to Japan for brutally beating down a mugger and living in New York with an expired visa, unless K accepts to work for them in the reactivated Sukeban Deka program. After accepting, not without hesitating due to being in bad terms with her mother, K is given a hi-tech steel yo-yo weapon and a new name, "Saki Asamiya," and is ordered to infiltrate an elite high school school in Japan. Said place, the Seisen Academy, is suspected to be the source of a website called "Enola Gay", which is rallying juvenile suicide bombers around the country. She is also briefed that another Sukeban operative was sent earlier only for her to commit suicide like the rest of juvenile terrorists, and that a counter for 72 hours has just appeared in the site.
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