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A politician has been relieved of his campaign money, but the thief,
Yoichi, has presumably died when his car blew up in an accident during the
getaway. But something sounds fishi to Nishiwaki (Keizo Kanie), agent of
the Sukeban Deka program - so he sends his top operative, high school
student Saki (Yoko Minamino), undercover to the convent school Yoichi's
little brother Yutaka is educated at, posing as a nun. Saki finds out that
Yoichi loved Yutaka over everything ... and yet, Yutaka revieves a
mysterious call from his thought dead brother who tells him where to find
the loot and tells it to bring the money to him at an amusement park. It's
here that Saki wants to arrest Yoichi then, but there are some enemy
agents who want to get their hands on the loot as well, but they're fought
off by Saki's sidekicks
Okyo (Haruko
Sagara) and Yukino (Akie Yoshizawa), while Saki wants to persuade Yoichi
to give himself up during a ferris wheel ride while he threatens to choose
a life of crime under delusions of grandeur - but ultimately all ends in a
chase through the sewers where Yoichi is allowed to die a heroe's
almost-death while saving Yutaka, and Saki and the girls get their hands
on all the enemy agents for a happy ending. Of course, in story
and backdrops (the ferris wheel, the sewers) this episode is very
obviously influenced by The Third Man (though never reaching that
movie's stylistic height or narrative depth), but at the same time one
can't help but marvel at how many exploitation mainstays have sneaked into
what's basically a family show, from the battling nun to the fighting
schoolgirls to bizarre martial arts weapons - and mix this all together to
get a truly fun episode.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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