Japanese Yoshi’s Story soundtrack CD.
Sayo (from Jewels) & Okunugi Chiharu 大椚千春 (from Satoru Japan) by Sylvie Malfray for Vogue girl Japan - Hair dresser Shinya Fukami - Location : US route 50 - Nevada - July 2014
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When all-male gangs wouldn’t let them join, all-female “sukeban” gangs formed their own identities – starting with the uniform.
Between the layers of clothing, sukeban girls would conceal weapons – razors, chains and anything else that one ought to take a jot more seriously than a yo-yo. Indeed, the sukeban sisterhood rivalled their male equivalents for violence and crime: facing off with rival factions, punishing girls within their own group (e.g. for cheating with someone else’s boyfriend), or generally colouring suburban ennui with a splash of petty crime. What’s more, Yakuza-style levels of organisation meant that, at the subculture’s peak, the largest alliance had over 20,000 teenage girls sworn in.
They even inspired a series of exploitation-style movies, akin to the works of Russ Meyer. These movies bore titles like Delinquent Girl Boss, Girl Boss (Sukeban), and Terrifying Girls’ High School.
It continues today in the form of all-female bosozoku biker gangs:
As the expectations for young women to marry and settle continue to be a fact of life in Japan, so too has this all-girl outlaw subculture prevailed as an alternative narrative for young women. Today, you can spot them by their embellished and embroidered jumpsuits, floral tattoos, long manicured nails and bright pink, heavily stickered bikes.
Yeeees, love this post.
Also worth mentioning the great film “Kamikaze Girls” [Shimotsuma Monogatari] which stars Anna Tsuchiya as a bad-ass sukeban.
Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbFEPS8PPic
YES. I *love* Shimotsuma Monogatari. It was filmed in a tiny town (Shimotsuma, obv) next to where I lived in Japan. I recognize local landmarks from that movie. One of the climactic scenes takes place at the Ushiku Daibutsu (giant Buddha statue), which looks like a space ship if you go inside. Ah, I miss that place.
Visions of space and the future in Japan in the 70s and 80s, Peter Sato, calendar-1980
Photographs from ‘The Weeping Stones’series by Trevor Williams and Jonathan Galione, each photograph features bio luminescent shrimp found in the Seto Inland Sea in Okayama, Japan.
can someone please explain to me why there are Pat Benatar lyrics all over what is apparently official Malice Mizer merchandise
lol I’ve always wondered the same. I used to think they were fanmade because it didn’t make any sense but then I remembered that there was a boy with a jellyfish hat in the band so whatever
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