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Sukeban Deka II - Saki Knocked Out! The Pressure Point Strike / Sukeban Deka II - Desperate Battle! Target the Counter Point
episode 2.31 & 2.32
Japan 1986
produced by Kazuya Maeda, Chiharu Nakasone, Osamu Tezuka for Toei/Fuji Television
directed by Toshio Oi, Hideo Tanaka
starring Yoko Minamino, Akie Yoshizawa, Haruko Sagara, Naoto Nagashima, Keizo Kanie, Isao Kamata, Satoshi Morizuka, Naomi Katagiri, Genta Nakagura
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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Independently, Saki (Yoko Minamino) and Kage no Soto (Naoto Nagashima),
leader of evil organisation Seiroukai) wonder whether they're related ...
but that doesn't keep Kage no Soto from hiring the Kuroba Five, a quintet
of martial artists with mystical powers looking like right out of an old
chamara movie, to kill Saki - and her sidekicks Yukino
(Akie Yoshizawa) and Okyo (Haruko Sagara), should need arise. Now the
leader of the Kuroba Five holds a grudge against Saki's deceased father
who has defeated his father back in the day, so he wants to make sure Saki
suffers before he and his men finish her off, so members of the group
pinch Saki, Yukino and Okyo's shoulders under different pretenses without
the girls even knowing they're attacked - but the next day, the three find
themselves without energy and in pain, and Saki determines it must have
been a delayed power strike from an enemy yet unknown to incapacitate her
and her friends. It's only when she talks to her mentor/boss Nishiwaki
(Keizo Kanie) that she learns that the Kuroba Five are behind all this,
and that they'll attack soon. There is a pressure point in the body that
will release the effects of the power strike, but Nishiwaki doesn't know
where that pressure point is. So Saki, Yukino and Okyo retreat to a
mansion in Yukino's parents possession and boobytrap the premises to at
least stand a bit of a chance. Meanwhile at Seiroukai headquarters, Kage
no Soto learns more about Saki's identity and wants to blow off the
attack, but for the leader of the Kuroba Five, it's personal now.
Outnumbered and more or less powerless, the girls only just hold up in the
early phases of the attack, until Saki is knocked over by one of her own
traps - and by chance it hits her pressure point and renders her fine
again. With her yo-yo, she quickly hits the pressure points of her
friends, and in full power again, the three have little problems defeating
their enemies ... Now the chambara-styled Kuroba Five are by
themselves already a touch of campy ingenuity, only augmented by their
fighting style and even their entrances. Plus incapacitating the girls to
have them rely on their wits rather than their prowess proves to be a cool
plot device to make this a very enjoyable double-episode.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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