Ako
(Akiko Wada) is a tough biker chick who gives a seemingly innocent girl named
Mei (Meiko Kaji from the Lady Snowblood movies) a ride on her motorcycle. Mei’s destination happens to be an all-girl
gang rumble and Ako decides to join the club.
Together, they get mixed up in a scheme involving a crooked boxing match
and begin a bitter feud with a rival male gang.
Not
to be confused with the similarly titled Delinquent Girl Boss franchise, this
first in a series of five Stray Cat Rock films suffers from a meandering pace
and some serious lulls in between the thrills.
Sure, there’s one great moment involving a girl getting a blowtorch to
the boob, but moments like this are few and far between. The action is sparse for the most part
too. There’s a protracted motorcycle vs.
dune buggy chase scene that begins with promise, although it’s much too
leisured paced (both in that the editing is unrushed and that the vehicles are
slowly moving) to gather much excitement or momentum.
In
the meantime, you can be content with some chintzy footage of the girls
attending garish go-go clubs where they hear non-stop shitty music. (The film is only eighty minutes, but the musical
performances help to heavily pad out the running time.) Heck, Wada even gets to belt out a
number. Probably the biggest blunder is
that the usually magnetic Kaji isn’t given very much to do. Instead, Wada is given the bulk of the movie
to carry on her shoulders, although she’s not quite up to the challenge.
Director
Yasuharu Hasbe later directed the nutty Assault! Jack the Ripper.
AKA: Female Juvenile Delinquent Leader: Stray Cat Rock. AKA:
Stray Cat Rock: Woman Boss. AKA:
Alley Cat Rock: Female Boss.
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