Right, well when I sat down to watch this 1970 Japanese movie, I believed I was sitting down to watch an action crime movie, as that is what the movie was listed as here on IMDb. I hadn't heard about the movie, so I virtually had no idea what I was in for here, nor did I have any expectations at all
Writer Gorô Tanada didn't deliver a script or storyline that particularly entertained me. The contents of the story were rather superficial, and I have to admit that I really didn't care about what was going on throughtout the course of the 83 minutes that the movie ran for. I simply didn't care about the storyline, as it had zero appeal to me.
The characters in the movie were caricatures, so they were hard to take serious. And it didn't really help much that the acting performances were dubious and often wooden.
I found director Yukihiro Sawada's 1970 movie to be awkward to sit through and it felt like it ran for 180 minutes and not just 83, simply because there was nothing in the movie that won me over. It was a cringeworthy movie experience, and one I am never returning to watch a second time.
Now, "Joshi Gakuen: Yabai Sotsugyô" (aka "Girls Junior High School Trouble at Graduation") is definitely not a crime action movie, far from it. So don't get lured in on that account, which I happened to be. You will be sorely disappointed.
My rating of "Joshi Gakuen: Yabai Sotsugyô" lands on a generous two out of ten stars.
