A downloadable teaser trailer for Kenta Fukasaku's Yo-Yo Girl Cop (Sukeban Deka: kôdo nêmu = Asamiya Saki - or "Sukeban Deka: code name = Asamiya Saki", if you prefer back-transliterations) has been added to the official website for the movie. (Note that content-wise, it's essentially the same as the smaller Flash Video one on YoYoing.com that was linked to in this Twitch article from June 9th.) Toei Company Ltd. (Tôei K.K.) is scheduled to release the movie theatrically in Japan on September 30th.
The screenplay for Yo-Yo Girl Cop was written by Shôichi Maruyama, based on the manga series Sukeban Deka by Shinji Wada. The movie stars Aya Matsuura as Saki Asamiya IV, a.k.a. Sukeban Deka IV. It co-stars Riki Takeuchi, Rika Ishikawa, Erika Miyoshi, Yui Okada, Yuki Saitô, Hiroyuki Nagato, and Shunsuke Kubozuka (Kuboduka Shunsuke).
Here's a synopsis for Yo-Yo Girl Cop from Sanspo.com via Don Brown: "A police detective working undercover at private school Seisen Gakuen is blown to pieces on the streets of Shibuya. The cop had been investigating students frequenting a popular underground website named 'Enola Gay', where information on everything from bullying to bomb-making is exchanged. One week earlier, a strange counter on the website began ticking down to some unmentioned event.... Meanwhile, a young girl only known as 'K' is brought back to Japan from New York against her will, and is assigned the codename 'Asamiya Saki' by the National Police Agency. Her mission: infiltrate Seisen Gakuen...."
For more information on Yo-Yo Girl Cop, see Twitch's first, second, third, fourth, and fifth articles on it. For information on the two previous Sukeban Deka live-action theatrical features, the three Sukeban Deka live-action TV series, the Sukeban Deka live-action TV movie, and the two-volume Sukeban Deka anime, see this Twitch article.
Yo-Yo Girl Cop teaser trailer (downloadable 4 MB MOV file)
Yo-Yo Girl Cop teaser trailer (streaming Windows Media)
YoYoing.com: Yo-Yo Girl Cop TV segment page
Yo-Yo Girl Cop official website
Additional behind the scenes footage from the movie can be found on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG2p7QZtTUA&search=Sukeban%20deka
I still have my doubts whether Matsuura Aya can really pull it off but judging from the teaser and the other footage it doesn't look too bad. I wonder if Okada Yui and the rest of V-U-Den/Biyuden (Erika Miyoshi, Rika Ishikawa) will be playing allies or villains. I do wish that the "Yo-Yo Girl Cop" title was dropped however as it really does make the movie sound campy, which if the teaser is any indication it is not.
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