DEATH ON A RIVAL

Even in Japan payback is a bitch

Above, a nice but slightly damaged poster (it had a strip of tape across the top) for Joshi gakuen: Otona no asobi, aka Girls’ Junior High School: Too Young To Play Like This, starring Junko Natsu and Yoshiko Ikebo in a movie about students at two girls schools—Shirobara Academy and Kawakira Junior High—and how their rivalry turns into open conflict. There are many subplots as well, among them a Yakuza father’s neglect, uptight adults, budding young love, and more. There’s a really funny scene in this where the two schools’ volleyball teams get into a massive brawl started by the Shirobara girls in order to cover for injecting Kawakira’s best player with a drug. It’s right out of M*A*S*H. There’s also a bit where someone spikes a ball into someone else’s crotch. We knew volleyball shots could be underhanded, but that’s just plain evil. Joshi gakuen: Otona na asobi premiered in Japan today in 1971.

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