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Sukeban Boy

Where to begin? I guess it’s best just to leap right in. Sukeban Boy is an hour long exercise in middle child, look at me be naughty, sexual farce, surreal freakshow antics. The story is apparently based on a popular Japanese comic. Superman apparently is not entertaining enough over there. Perhaps, because unlike the hero of Sukeban Boy, Supes is not a biologically correct boy who looks and sounds exactly like a junior high school girl.

Yep. That’s the premise. Sukeban Boy’s father, a gangster, enrolls him in a girls school where he is forced to undergo humiliation classes. The weirdness is ratcheted up another notch when Sukeban Boy meets and must fight various gangs. Imagine The Crips and The Bloods if The Crips and The Bloods were both comprised of half naked Japanese girls. By half naked I of course mean boobies. And a few butts. In fact these gangs have names like the Pantyhose League, the No-Bra League, and - of course - the Full Strip League. There is also a fair amount of gore. Here I refer to bio-organic machine gun boobies. All of this mixed up together in a milkshake of odd. The particulars of the plot are somewhat unimportant as it all blurs together at about the half hour mark.

The movie does have pretty ladies in it if you are into Japanese chicks and it does have weirdness in it if you are into the Tokyo Shock type of movie. What disappointed me about this movie is that it seemed too consciously dumb. It was as if it were trying to outwierd itself just for strangeness’ sake. In fairness to the director this is probably because it was based on a Japanese comic and the comic’s plot points were screwed up from jumpstreet.

At an hour it is not a bad watch. It would probably play best at a party . . . with drinking.

You should rent this DVD if:

1. You like watching Japanese girls naked and don’t have the internet. Or if
2. your sense of irony is more highly developed than your sense of smell or if
3. you want to throw an interesting party.

You should buy this DVD if:

1. You are into shocking and bizarre Japanese comic sex farces.
2. You have an unhealthy attachment to watching Japanese girls naked.
3. Machine gun boobies.

If you are interested in buying this DVD here is a link to Amazon where you can get it at a reasonable price: