Saki (Yoko Minamino), yoyo-armed undercover high school cop, is sent to
Yokohama to help the local sukeban Rei-hwa, who seems to have difficulties
to stop a crime wave apparently controlled by a pirate radio station.
Thing is, Rei-hwa - a rose being her weapon of choice - refuses her help,
and wants to send her and her sidekicks Yukino (Akie Yoshizawa) and
marble-armed Okyo (Haruko Sagara) right back - but eventually, Rei-hwa and
her girls and Saki and company are all led into a trap, and when Saski
volunteers to create a diversion for everyone else to make an escape,
Rei-hwa insists on joining her in doing so, and while fighting their way
through the baddies, they find appreciation for one another. But they soon
start to wonder why the baddies always know where they are - until they
find out a bracelet given to Rei-hwa by her best friend, accomplice and
confidant Baron includes a tracking device. So they use that knowledge
against him, lead him to believe they're somewhere else and catch him
red-handed recording his pirate radio show ... Now the idea for
the film's villain to control his gang via a radio program that, as pirate
as it might seem, can be listened on by anybody might sound pretty stupid
and more like a story gimmick than anything else, but if you can look
beyond that, this is actually a fun episode, with lots of martial arts
action using odd weapons (like Rei-hwa's rose), some Japanese hard rock
tunes, and breakdancers turning into fighters at the drop of a hat. Sure,
not a milestone of TV entertainment, but lots of fun to watch
nevertheless.
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