GIRL BOSS: ESCAPE FROM REFORM SCHOOL (1973)

女番長　感化院脱走 

directed by Sadao Nakajima

Production: Toei (Kyoto Studio)
May 24, 1973
90 minutes Color Widescreen

Miki Sugimoto as Aoki

Yuko Kano as Mina

Hiroko Isayama as Kyoko

Rika Sudo as Maki

Fujika Omori as Yuki

Tsunehiko Watase as Yoichi

No preview, but here's a short clip I found....

A well paced, nicely shot example of the Sukeban series, that does almost everything right, but seems to be missing some variable to put it over top. Part of it may be the ending, which I found unfulfilling, and the other is that the love interest plays a bigger part in things than I personally would have.

(Miki Sugimoto)

 The best of these movies are all about girl power and accomplishing what they want with only the slightest help of a male ally. 

Either way, it's still a worthy example of the genre and features the usual display of exploitation - showers, ripped clothes, perverted men, sexual angst... 

Miki Sugimoto, a regular reform school escapist, is caught and brought back, eventually uniting a crew of delinquents to put together a big escape - leading to a showdown finale. 

It may not sound like high praise, but I did like and enjoy this movie!

Fujika Omori as Yuki