is a Japanese novel

Japanese literature

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 by prolific author Jirō Akagawa

Jiro Akagawa

is a Japanese novelist born in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.- Biography :Best known for his humorous mysteries, Akagawa's first novel, Ghost Train, was published in 1976 and went on to win the annually granted All Yomimono New Mystery Writers' Prize by Bungeishunjū, a Japanese literary...

. It was well-received and adapted into comedy

Comedy film

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/action film

Action film

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 originally released in 1981

1981 in film

-Events:*January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate, a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica to sell it....

. A satirical

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 take on yakuza

Yakuza

, also known as , are members of traditional organized crime syndicates in Japan. The Japanese police, and media by request of the police, call them bōryokudan , literally "violence group", while the yakuza call themselves "ninkyō dantai" , "chivalrous organizations". The yakuza are notoriously...

 films, the storyline of the film involves a teenage delinquent schoolgirl

Sukeban

means delinquent girl or boss girl in Japanese, equivalent to the male banchō. A dictionary of says that sukeban only refers to the leader of a girl gang, not any member of the girl gang.-Characteristics:...

 named Izumi Hoshi who inherits her father's clan

Japanese clans

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. The title is a reference to a scene where the main character shoots several rival gang members with a submachine gun

Submachine gun

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, while wearing a sailor-fuku

Japanese school uniform

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, a traditional Japanese school uniform

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. The film stars Japanese idol

Japanese idol

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 Hiroko Yakushimaru

Hiroko Yakushimaru

is a Japanese actress and vocalist.After passing the audition for the film produced by Haruki Kadokawa, she began her acting career. Along with teen idols Tomoyo Harada and Noriko Watanabe who made debut after a similar process, she was often described as one of "Kadokawa Sannimusume" in her early...

 as the main character.

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun is relatively well-known in its home country, and spawned two television series

Television program

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 based and expanding upon its story, one in 1982, and one in 2006. Outside of Japan, it is popular in some cult film

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 circles, but has not garnered much mainstream attention. It has been released on Region 2

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 and Region 3 DVD

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, the latter being its first release that featured English

English language

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 subtitles

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.

Film reception

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun was released in a double bill with Moeru yūsha on 19 December 1981. Distribution income for the bill reached number one on the domestic market for the period including 1982, eventually totaling ¥2.3 billion.

2006 cast

The cast of the drama series was as follows:

Character	(Japanese)	Actor	(Japanese)
Izumi Hoshi	星 泉	Masami Nagasawa Masami Nagasawa is a Japanese actress under Toho Entertainment. She has performed in many movies and television dramas including Crying out Love, In the Center of the World, Dragon Zakura and Proposal Daisakusen. She graduated from Horikoshi High School in 2006. She is also known as "Ma-chan" or, as Tomohisa...	長澤 まさみ
Takashi Hoshi	星 貴志	Jun Hashizume	橋爪 淳
Makoto Sakuma	佐久間 真	Shinichi Tsutsumi Shinichi Tsutsumi is a Japanese stage and screen actor. He won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2005 for Always Sanchōme no Yūhi.-Profile:*Place of Birth: Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan*Talent Agency: Siscompany-Movies:* Suspect X...	堤 真一
Kinzo Sakai	酒井 金造	Yamamoto Ryūji	山本 龍二
Kenji Sakai	酒井 健次	Akiyoshi Nakao	中尾 明慶
Nishino Takeshi	西野 武	Hiromasa Taguchi	田口 浩正
Hideki Gōda	剛田 英樹	Hiroaki Fukui	福井 博章
Mayumi	真由美	Kyōko Koizumi Kyoko Koizumi ' is a Japanese singer and actress. Her music is released through Victor Entertainment . She is also known by the nickname Kyon Kyon. She had singles reach the Top ten for 12 consecutive years between 1983 and 1994, a female solo artist record, until this was broken by Namie Amuro...	小泉 今日子
Hajime Sandaiji	三大寺 一	Ken Ogata Ken Ogata Ken Ogata was a Japanese actor.Ogata was born in Tokyo, Japan. Ogata is well known for his roles in Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book, Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama...  (cameo)	緒形 拳
Kōhei Kuroki	黒木 幸平	Mantarō Koichi	小市 慢太郎
Michio Inaba	稲葉 通男	Ken Ijiwa	井澤 健
Noboru Hamaguchi	浜口 昇	Hirotarō Honda	本田 博太郎
Mitsuaki Shibata	柴田 光明	Hideo Nakano	中野 英雄
Ranmaru Mori	森 蘭丸	Ken Mori	森 廉
Tomō Iwakura	岩倉 智男	Hajime Okayama	おかやま はじめ
Reika Kaneda	金田 麗華	Yūko Morimoto	森本 ゆうこ
Kazuko Tokiwa	常盤 和子	Jūri Ihata	井端 珠里
Akemi Kobayashi	小林 朱美	Arisa Tani	谷 亜里咲
Tatsuo Medaka	目高 辰雄	Kokinji Katsura	桂 小金治
First floor resident		Sōsuke Sugiura	杉浦 双亮