Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

Teen schoolgirls rarely inherit crime syndicates, but here one does. A yakuza clan replaces a fallen patriarch with an unlikely heir. The film remembered to give her a sailor suit and a machine gun.

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Shinji Sōmai directed Sailor Suit and Machine Gun in 1981. See Shinji Sōmai's full filmography, where to start with Shinji Sōmai, or where to go after you've seen everything by Shinji Sōmai.

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun was released in 1981 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 131 minutes.