Girl's Blood (2014) Aka x Pinku [Director's Cut]

Director: Koichi Sakamoto
Writers: Kazuki Sakuraba (based on the novel by), Takehiko Minato (screenplay)
Stars: Yuria Haga, Sanae Hitomi, Rina Koike

Four girls take part in illegal underground fighting event "Girl's Blood" held at an abandoned school building in Roppongi every night. The girls have their own stories and quirks from their private lives. Satsuki (Yuria Haga) suffers from a gender identity disorder, Chinatsu (Asami Tada) ran away from an abusive husband, Miko (Ayame Misaki) is a S&M queen and Mayu (Rina Koike) has a Lolita face.

Based on a novel by Sakuraba Kazuki, Sakamoto Koichi’s Girl’s Blood (Aka X Pinku) goes back to the basics of martial arts action, with no buzzing limb replacements and hardly any weapons in sight, save for a whip wielded by a pillowy-lipped dominatrix named Miko (Misaki Ayame). Also the mostly female cast expends real sweat, displays real fighting skills and takes dozens of painful-looking slams against steel mesh and other unforgiving surfaces, with little help from wires or CGI effects.

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