Classic 1980's Cult Film Sailor Suit and Machine Gun Coming To English Subtitled DVD!

looking out for this one, had done a little research in waiting for the
actual date, specs, synopsis to be issued.

theres a spoiler-free trailer on youtube too :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgczWfo4TSQ

A remake(TV drama)was made in Japan last october,with the cast
Masami Nagasawa,Shinichi Tsutsumi and Ken Ogata.
Yakushimaru was sort of an icon for my geeration.So was the director,Shinji Soumai,probably the most influential director of the 80's and in my opinion the most underrated Japanese director in abroad.
I watch this film once in couple years to feel the 80's,when Kadokawa Film ,led by the film tycoon Haruki Kadokawa,was the driving force of japanese movie industry.
Coincidentaly ,Kadokawa made a come back last year with controversial "Yamato",and his return is somehow connected to the
revival of the Japanese film industry.This february Kadokawa is going to unleash the Chinghis Khan epic.

YES! I've been waiting for this since I heard about it's planned release last September. Glad it didn't get delayed too much.

This is one of my favorite Yakushimaru Hiroko idol movies ("W No Higeki AKA Tragedy of W(oman)" would be a close second). Yakushimaru's theme song for the film is also great. Has IVL released her "Nerawareta Gakuen AKA School In The Crosshairs" yet? I hope IVL considers releasing non-Kadokawa idol movies such as Kikuchi Momoko's "Tera Senshi Boy" or Nakayama Miho's "BeBop High School" as those are also fun films.

Nerawareta Gakuen was scheduled to be released last month (as was this) but there were some hiccups in the IVL release schedule. Now that this is out we might not have to wait much longer for Nerawareta Gakuen. Tantei Monogatari was one of their first releases (and so far the only Hiroko Yakushimaru one I have but I'll be getting Tragedy of W when I preorder this from CDWOW). They've also released a couple of Tomoyo Harada movies.

Would be nice to see a subbed release of the Onyanko Club movie Kiki Ippatsu if for no other reason than the fact it was directed by Masato Harada.

ahh. you mention cd-wow. they've had some of these IVL Kadokawa releases in the past, but they've had a sudden shift in policy / selection and they're generally not appearing to stock lots of the HK DVDs of interest lately - theyve missed 'memories of matsuko' and 'sinking of japan', they didnt have the last batch of IVL (masumura's 'a lustful man' - thats the one i remember, bought that) and so i've had to switch to dddhouse.com and exploit the favourable exchange rate to the dollar we're having lately.

Hmm you're right logboy. I also noticed that they no longer stock Tragedy of W so something must have gone amiss. I really have to try DDDHouse sometime but for this time I think I'll stick to YesAsia as they've never let me down.