Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (film)

Directed byShinji Sōmai

Screenplay byYōzō Tanaka

Based onSailor Suit and Machine Gun
by Jirō Akagawa

Produced by

• Haruki Kadokawa
• Kei Ijichi

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
Film poster
Directed by	Shinji Sōmai
Screenplay by	Yōzō Tanaka
Based on	Sailor Suit and Machine Gun by Jirō Akagawa
Produced by	Haruki Kadokawa Kei Ijichi
Starring	Hiroko Yakushimaru Tsunehiko Watase Akira Emoto
Cinematography	Seizō Sengen
Edited by	Akira Suzuki
Music by	Katz Hoshi
Distributed by	Toei Company
Release date	19 December 1981 (1981-12-19) (Japan)
Running time	112 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	¥3.91 billion (Japan)

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (セーラー服と機関銃, Sērā-fuku to kikanjū) is a 1981 Japanese yakuza film directed by Shinji Sōmai, starring Japanese idol Hiroko Yakushimaru as the main character and based on the novel of the same name by Jirō Akagawa. It was released on 19 December 1981.^[1] A satirical take on yakuza films, the storyline involves a teenage delinquent schoolgirl named Izumi Hoshi who inherits her father's yakuza clan. The title is a reference to a scene where the main character shoots several rival gang members with a submachine gun, while wearing a sailor-fuku, the traditional Japanese school uniform.

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun is relatively well known in its home country, and spawned two television series based on and expanding upon its story, one in 1982, and one in 2006. Outside Japan, it is popular in some cult film circles, but has not garnered much mainstream attention. It has been released on Region 2 and Region 3 DVD, the latter being its first release that featured English subtitles.^[2] A "spiritual sequel", Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation, was released on March 5, 2016.^[3]