Just a quick link to a piece I wrote for the exciting CNNGo on some of this decade's toughest ladies of cinema.Ass-kicking Japanese film heroines of the 2000s
It's a mixed bag but I think I covered different genres pretty well, though I know I'll probably get my own ketsu kicked for missing out on somebody or other. There was an extra paragraph at the end that had to be cut for length:
For more mayhem, Miki Mizuno has been punching up a lively action filmography with the likes of the "Hard Revenge Milly" films and "The Women of Fast Food" while 17-year-old karate master Rina Takeda made an impact in "High Kick Girl" this year.
Thanks to CNNGo editor W. David Marx, Twitch Film's Todd Brown, New York Asian Film Festival's Marc Walkow and Maboroshii Productions' Nicholas Rucka.
2 comments:
The list is quite good! I'm glad you didn't put Aya Ueto in your list for Azumi. But I do find the omission of Yumiko Shaku's character in The Princess Blade / Shura Yukihime (2001) to be inexcusable!
Her character Yuki is the epitome of ass-kicking heroines!!!
If you need to be reminded, please refer to the final boss fight here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aDiIACc7vw
Hi, thanks for the comment.
Princess Blade did have some decent action thanks to Donnie Yen but I thought it was a terrible film (one of my secondary qualifiers for inclusion was that I actually like the movie). Looking at Satô's filmography I don't think he has any love for the genre, and it shows.
Still, lists are always very much to each his/her own.
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