Directed by genre veterans Yasuharu Hasebe (Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701’s Grudge Song) and Toshiya Fujita (Lady Snowblood) these five tales of rebellious youth feature a psychedelic mix of girl gangs, bikers, sex, drugs and rock and roll, all captured in a delirious mash-up of pop aesthetics including split screens, freeze frames, injections of colour, frenetic editing and dizzying angles, making these films a riotous joy from beginning to end.
Meiko Kaji (Lady Snowblood, Blind Woman’s Curse) stars in the series alongside Bunjaku Han (Love Letter) and Tatsuya Fuji (In the Realm of the Senses)
In Delinquent GirlBoss, the girl gang go up against criminal organisation the Seiyu Group, where, following a fixed boxing match, blood is shed and friendships are tested.
In Wild Jumbo, Kaji and the gang get involved in a kidnapping and the robbery of a religious organization.
In Sex Hunter Kaji’s gang go up against The Eagles, a group led by Fuji, and sex and violence erupt over the treatment of ‘half-breeds’. I
n Machine Animal, gang rivalry is once again the focus with two gangs pursuing some LSD pushers looking to move a big score.
The series swansong, Beat ’71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend’s father. With the help of some hippies, she strives to be re-united with her lover.
