Japanese Title: Sukeban Buruusu – Mesubachi No Gyakushu
Director: Norifumi Suzuki

The first of the Girl Boss series, Girl Boss Blues – Queen Bee’s Counterattack, directed by Norifumi Suzuki, features the memorably infamous sex-on-a-motorcycle-last-one-to-come-wins race, Reiko Ike’s violent sparring with a returning rival (Yukie Kagawa) and an evil yakuza kidnap-for-ransom of Ike’s bosozuku (biker gang) beau (Shunsuke Taki). Taki is released when his rich dad pays the swag, and everything culminates when Ike convinces her other abusive boyfriend, one of the yakuza (Hiroshi Miyauchi), to help steal back the loot from his gang. Then for good measure, add in a subplot of a world-weary, single father hitman (Shigeru Amachi, of Hell) who dies at the climax when he sides with the wayward youths. Miyauchi and the gang bite the dust, too, with the yakuza boss (Toru Abe) pursuing Ike and Taki down a perilous mountain road in a wild car chase. Both cars go off the cliff, and only Ike survives when she jumps free.

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