Yo-Yo Girl Cop

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Sukeban Deka: Codename = Saki Asamiya
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Directed by	Kenta Fukasaku
Produced by	Tatsuya Kunimatsu
Written by	Shoichi Maruyama
Starring	Aya Matsuura v-u-den Riki Takeuchi Shunsuke Kubozuka
Music by	Goro Yasukawa
Cinematography	Takashi Komatsu
Editing by	Chieko Suzaki
Distributed by	Magnolia Home Entertainment
Release date(s)	September 30, 2006
Running time	98 min
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
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Yo-Yo Girl Cop, known in Japan as Sukeban Deka: Kōdo nēmu = Asamiya Saki (スケバン刑事コードネーム=麻宮サキ, Delinquent Girl Detective: Code Name = Saki Asamiya ^?), is a Japanese film within the Sukeban Deka film series.

Yo-Yo Girl Cop stars Aya Matsuura with the lead role as Saki Asamiya and Rika Ishikawa cast as her rival, Reika Akiyama. Yuki Saito, who played the role of Saki in the first live action TV series, stars as Saki's mother. The movie was released on September 30, 2006 in Japan, and in the United States on July 17, 2007 as Yo-Yo Girl Cop.^[1]^[2] It is directed by Kenta Fukasaku, best known as the screenwriter for the film Battle Royale and director of its sequel, Battle Royale 2.

Magnolia Pictures released the English version of the film.^[3]

1 Cast
2 Music
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Cast

Aya Matsuura as Saki Asamiya (麻宮サキ, Saki Asamiya^?)
v-u-den

Rika Ishikawa as Reika Akiyama (秋山レイカ, Reika Akiyama^?)
Erika Miyoshi as Kotomi Kanda (神田琴美, Kotomi Kanda^?)
Yui Okada as Tae Konno (今野多英, Tae Konno^?)

Yuki Saito as Saki's Mother
Hiroyuki Nagato as Kurayami Keishi (暗闇警視, Kurayami Keishi^?)
Shunsuke Kubozuka as Jiro Kimura (騎村時郎, Jiro Kimura^?)
Riki Takeuchi as Kazutoshi Kira (吉良和俊, Kazutoshi Kira^?)
Masai Ōtani, another Hello! Project member makes a cameo appearance in the film.

[edit] Music

The movie's theme song, "Thanks!" is by the Hello! Project group GAM, consisting of Aya Matsuura and Miki Fujimoto. The song "Shinkirō Romance", also by GAM, was used an insert song.