99 minutes, 35mm, in Japanese and English with English subtitles
Directed by: Kenta Fukasaku
Starring: Aya Matsuura, Riki Takeuichi, Rika Ishikawa, Yui Okada

Watch [the trailer] on YouTube.

Showtimes:
WED July 4, 1:00pm at the IFC Center - One Show Only! [Buy Tickets];
Note: "Buy Tickets" links will take you to the IFC Center website (for shows at IFC Center) and to Japan Society website (for shows at Japan Society). Tickets for each venue must be purchased separately.

Like a cheesy power chord slammed out by a hair metal band, YO-YO GIRL COP
is a trash-tastic guilty pleasure that feels like something you might find hidden in your dad's closet between the stack of old Playboys and a Saturday Night Special. Directed by Kenta Fukasaku, son of Japan's master director Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale), this flick is an off-the-rails revival of Japan's much loved, cult fave 1980's TV series, Sukeban Deka, or as we say in English, "Delinquent Girl Detective."

K (pop starlette Aya Matsuura; blood type: B! favorite color: pink! favorite food: cookie dough ice cream!) is living on the mean streets of New York City and she's so dangerous that the NYPD deports her to Japan. There she meets up with Kira (Riki Takeuichi) a Japanese cop who wants her to go undercover in a local high school that has started generating lesbian, schoolgirl suicide bombers. K finally agrees and receives her weapon of choice: a razor-sharp yo-yo that keeps bonking her in the head every time she tries to use it. Too bad, because the alpha mean girl at the school, Reika (pop starlette, Rika Ishikawa (Blood type: A! Favorite color: pink! Dislikes: birds!) is also...a terrorist.

Tooth and claw girl fights to settle the fate of the world! High school soap
operatics that result in suicide bombings! Warehouse shoot-outs! Yo-yo
battle! Remove your brain and place it somewhere safe before attending this
flick, and prepare to be marinated in 99 minutes of kitsch pop culture
apocalyptic noise that plays like Hello Kitty meets 24.

TRIVIA: Aya Matsuura, along with Maki Fujimoto, is GAM - a bubblegum pop duo that performed the YO-YO GIRL COP's main theme song. GAM is one of the many female groups created by producer/sonwriter Tsunku, under the umbrella of the Hello! Project.

Here Tsunku' provides some insights into what GAM is all about: "...the theme for these two is to deliver song which radiates from their legs and echoes within your heart! lets do that! A unit which sings a cool song with a dress that attracts people with their 'beautiful wonderful legs' is what we're aiming for!"