In fact, even the least patient acolyte will have to wait a mere few hundred seconds between fights, so tightly-packed is the karate therein. Viewers don’t have to wait more than a few minutes to see the girl who could be ‘the next big thing’ in action. Though Kei is initially drawn to their skills, she is eventually forced to reconsider her allegiance when Matsumura’s school is their next target. Furious with the constant rejection, Kei decides to join the dark side and throw her lot in with ‘The Destroyers’ – a ruthless karate school that doubles as a criminal organisation. Matsumura, her master, is less convinced by her attitude and insists she learns all kata instead of letting her temper get the better of her. Yet what soon becomes apparent is that it clearly takes more than a cutie pie superkicker and an avalanche of action to make a memorable feature.īellicose schoolgirl Kei (Takeda) is eager to secure her black belt in karate and has no qualms about challenging every competent practitioner in the city to one-on-one duels, fights she invariably wins. Japan embraces the rejuvenated fighting femme sub-genre – one that has traditionally been the preserve of Hong Kong and especially Thai cinema recently – with ‘High Kick Girl!’, a vehicle for eighteen year old karate champion Rina Takeda.
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