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Sukeban Deka II - Saki's Sorrow: Kyoshiro Dies for Love
episode 2.40
Japan 1986
produced by Kazuya Maeda, Chiharu Nakasone, Osamu Tezuka for Toei/Fuji Television
directed by Hideo Tanaka
starring Yoko Minamino, Akie Yoshizawa, Haruko Sagara, Naoto Nagashima, Keizo Kanie, Satoshi Morizuka, Masatomo Nakabayashi, Akiko Izumi, Hiroshi Miyauchi, Naomi Katagiri, Genta Nakagura, Eiken Shoji, Hiro Oikawa
screenplay by Tokio Tsuchiya, based on the manga by Shinji Wada, music by Ichiro Nitta
TV series Sukeban Deka, Sukeban Deka (Yoko Minamino)
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Ironically, the all-powerful Kidora treasure is buried at Saki's (Yoko
Minamino) own high school, but when she goes there to retrieve it, she
finds the place taken over by evil organisation Seiroukai, but their
leader Kage no Soto (Naoto Nagashima) grants her access to the school and
wants to fight her to the death, as they both have a piece to find the
treasure, he has Saki's mask and she has both their pendants. Saki at
first refuses to fight as she remembers him being her best friend when
they were children, but he pretty much forces her into battle - and they
pretty much prove to be a match for one another. However, in the meantime,
Kage no Soto's foster father, old man of Kamakura (Satoshi Morizuka), has
decided that Kage no Soto has served his purpose and sends assassins out
to kill both him and Saki - and Kage no Soto is allowed to die a hero
shielding Saki's body and taking an arrow to his pacemaker aimed at her.
Saki's mentor and boss Nishiwaki (Keizo Kanie) then takes care of the
hitman so she can conclude her quest for the treasure which really is
hidden in a cave under the grounds of the school and which causes a mighty
earthquake when unearthed ... With this being the third to last
episode of the series' season two, things seem to go into overdrive to tie
up all the loose ends - and it was obvious for quite some episodes now
that Kage no Soto would be allowed to die a hero's death eventually. Given
that dramatic (yet predictable) central plotpoint though, the episode
wasn't all that special though, no campy villains, no over-the-top
setpieces, and the fight scenes are on the duller side of the spectrum.
Only the sci-fi like representation of the treasure itself is fun, really.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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