KG – Karate Girl

[adrotate banner=”1″]UPDATE: Read our review of KG – Karate Girl!

An English-subtitled trailer/behind the scenes reel for KG (aka Karate Girl) is up on YouTube. Karate Girl is the followup to Rina Takeda’s High-Kick Girl!, this time Rina plays the daughter of a murdered karate champion who finds out her little sister has been raised by the murderers to be a force of evil. It’s sister vs sister as Rina must save her but also get revenge against the people who killed her dad. And the trailer goes on and on about “real karate” and “no CGI” and “no wires”. Hopefully we get more Rina Takeda and less other people in this go round. In any event, this is on my 2011 must-see list. I must see it, I must!

KG/Karate Girl hits theaters in Japan on Feb 5th
via NipponCinema, as usual
KG Karate Girl

High Kick Girl getting good reviews

[adrotate banner=”1″]Hollywood Reporter has given High Kick Girl a good review:

“High Kick Girl” achieves what last year’s “Shaolin Girl” failed to do at a fraction of the cost — create a proper martial arts vehicle for a hard-knuckled nymph to kick ass in a mini-skirted uniform. It is poised to high-kick its way into genre film ancillary.

That sounds pretty good, I am waiting with anticipation for this to come out!

Other High Kick girl articles:
trailer 2
first article (with Coweb)

High Kick Girl – trailer 2

[adrotate banner=”1″]EDIT: Our Full Review is up!!

High Kick Girl continues to kick high and be a girl in the second trailer that was posted on the Official site but you will probably have better luck finding it on NipponCinema.com (and watch the behind the scenes clips)

Plot: Kei (Rina Takeda) joins a karate dojo and quickly proves herself to be the most skilled fighter amongst all her male peers. However, her sensei Matsumura still refuses to give her the coveted black belt until she learns all the kata (forms). Too impatient to wait any longer, Kei hastily joins a fighting group called the Destroyers. The Destroyers don’t care about anything but fighting and earning money, and this suits Kei just fine. But when she finds out their true purpose—to destroy Matsumura—she decides she must do whatever it takes to put a stop to them.

There is also a new poster! It looks like a normal Japanese poster so I like it less than the first one.
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Find the first trailer here

High Kick Girl and Coweb – more women kicking butt!

We got a pair of female fighter movies to report on, and thanks to already released films Chocolate (Thailand) and Fighter (Denmark), this will be four such films in a short amount of time. Ignoring the fact that all four films are from different countries, is this the beginning of a whole slew of female fighter films? Because, that would be awesome! All four films also feature martial artists, not actresses, and they are all the film debuts of those girls. Now all we need is some enterprising producers to go and make some team-up movies and combine these girls together.

High Kick Girl – Japan

A cute high school girl who learns Karate must take on a group of secret fighters with help from her Karate master.

High Kick Girl
Rina Takeda will be starring in this one.

Official Blog – It is all in Japanese, so I hope you can read Japanese or are good at faking it.
High Kick Girl

UPDATE: Here is another trailer that is longer

Coweb – Hong Kong
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Xiong Xin Xin Directs this one.

Jiang Luxia stars, she was a contestant in a show Jackie Chan ran to find the next kung fu film stars. Her character fights lots of bad guys who have kidnapped her boss. But the whole thing is a trick and her fights are being recorded and used by illegal gamblers. I think she will be pretty mad and have to beat more people up, right?

Will come out in March.

Via 24fps