Today's the last day of freedom for high school freshman but they don't join their upperclassmen until Friday. Those are the people recruiting them into gangs or murdering them with a nunchaku on deserted islands. Just like what happens in these movies!
Switchblade Sisters is our third Jack Hill movie after Coffy and Foxy Brown. Unfortunately there's no Pam Grier in this one but two other Jack Hill/Pam Grier collaborations were just re-released so we haven't seen the last of them.
Battle Royale is a Japanese movie (that's in Japanese, I'm going to sneak that in here) so the 15-year-olds in it are probably closer to American college seniors. What with their cram schools and having to cram into subways and singing kramaoke. Anyway, people love this movie. Here's Tarantino naming Battle Royale the best movie since 1992:
But you don't have to take his word for it.
Because it's on a bunch of best of lists.
You'll recognize a couple people. It has Chiaki Kuriyama, Gogo from Kill Bill, and one of the hosts from Most Extreme Elimination Challenge (MXC). He's the guy on the right that they've named Vic Romano:
In Japan that show is called Takeshi's Castle and Vic Romano is really named Takeshi Kitano.
Since BR is two hours long we only have time for the CBS Schoolbreak Special Ace Hits the Big Time for a bonus third movie (show). Like Switchblade Sisters someone joins a gang on their first day of school but then it goes into a whole weird area.
Here's what happened last week:
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