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title: 'Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Shinji Sōmai'
released: '1981-12-19'
runtime_minutes: 131
genres:
  - 'Mystery'
countries:
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/sailor-suit-and-machine-gun-1981'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083021/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981)

1981 · 131 min · Mystery · Japan

Original title: セーラー服と機関銃

## Synopsis

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun  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. 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Shinji Sōmai](https://cinepixo.com/people/shinji-somai)
- **Screenplay:** [Yōzō Tanaka](https://cinepixo.com/people/yozo-tanaka)
- **Producer:** [Haruki Kadokawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/haruki-kadokawa), [Hidenori Taga](https://cinepixo.com/people/hidenori-taga)
- **Director of Photography:** [Seizō Sengen](https://cinepixo.com/people/seizo-sengen)

## Cast

- [Yuki Kazamatsuri](https://cinepixo.com/people/yuki-kazamatsuri)
- [Makoto Satō](https://cinepixo.com/people/makoto-sato)
- [Minori Terada](https://cinepixo.com/people/minori-terada)
- [Toshiya Sakai](https://cinepixo.com/people/toshiya-sakai)
- [Shinpei Hayashiya](https://cinepixo.com/people/shinpei-hayashiya)
- [Masaaki Daimon](https://cinepixo.com/people/masaaki-daimon)
- [Kazuo Kitamura](https://cinepixo.com/people/kazuo-kitamura)
- [Shingo Yanagisawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/shingo-yanagisawa)
- [Hiroko Yakushimaru](https://cinepixo.com/people/hiroko-yakushimaru)
- [Kamatari Fujiwara](https://cinepixo.com/people/kamatari-fujiwara)
- [Rentarō Mikuni](https://cinepixo.com/people/rentaro-mikuni)
- [Akira Emoto](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-emoto)
- [Ken Mitsuishi](https://cinepixo.com/people/ken-mitsuishi)
- [Tsunehiko Watase](https://cinepixo.com/people/tsunehiko-watase)

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