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Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
Blossoming Night Dreams is the first in the Delinquent Girl Boss series, as well as Toei’s first entry in the Pinky Violence genre. Spurred to jump into the game by the success of Nikkatsu’s Stray Cat Rock series of female delinquent films, the studio would go on to make the PV genre their own through more brazenly exploitative franchises like the aforementioned Terrifying Girls’ High School and Female Prisoner Scorpion films. At the time of this film, the template that those later films followed had yet to be set, and so, while there is a fair share of boobs and blood on display, there’s nowhere near as much as would become standard within a couple years. Furthermore–and again unlike perennial PV stars Miki Sugimoto and Reiko Ike–Oshida was not required to shed her clothing for her role, leaving the burden of baring all upon her supporting stars.
#1 by lyzard on April 1, 2008 - 3:32 pm
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“Teleport City: Skull Masks, Moustaches, And Nekkid Japanese Chicks.” Just watch the traffic increase.
#2 by KeithA on April 2, 2008 - 2:00 pm
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Sounds like a t-shirt to me. I’m already making one with a picture of Peter Cushing from At the Earth’s Core, with the caption “You cannot mesmerize me! I’m British!”
#3 by lyzard on April 2, 2008 - 3:19 pm
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Truly?? Ooh, ooh, over here!! And I also want one with, “Monster? But….we’re British!”
Actually, some years ago I was trying to get an Attack Of The Giant Leeches one made with “Liz, baby! Liz, doll! Liz, honey!” on the back; but I could never find a satisfactory picture of Yvette Vickers.
#4 by Chadly on April 3, 2008 - 12:55 am
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So basically, the high hilarity of that chick spreading the clap to a bunch of yakuza boobs aside, I probably shouldn’t have started my foray into Pinky Violence with Girl Boss Guerilla and tried this one first?
#5 by Todd on April 3, 2008 - 9:45 am
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And who could forget that heartwarming adventure beneath the nunnery outhouse? (That was in Girl Boss Guerilla, right?) Oh God, now I have to go scrub my brain again.
In short, yes, yes, a thousand time yes. Also, after I finished writing this review, I went back and read Keith’s review of Worthless to Confess and, aside from learning a lot about Southern cold remedies, I was reminded by it of what a good film that one was also. So, I’d say either that or Blossoming Night Dreams would provide a nice, non gag-inducing entryway into the PV genre.
#6 by El Santo on April 3, 2008 - 9:56 am
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What if you want one that’ll make you gag?
#7 by KeithA on April 3, 2008 - 10:44 am
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Girl Boss Guerrilla really is the worst of the bunch that has been released so far. I think the Delinquent Girl Boss films and the Stray Cat Rock films are among the best the genre has to offer.
And what is it with the clap? Why were yakuza films always bringing up the clap?
#8 by lyzard on April 3, 2008 - 3:36 pm
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It’s a deeply symbolic reference to the functioning of the yakuza itself, the way that crime spreads throughout a community, and the difficulty of banishing it altogether; and how violence can erupt again and again from seeming calm.
That, or they just really liked talking about the clap.