What makes it different from others?

That was an excellent one.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Suzuki's ''Terrifying Girls' High School'' is obviously exploring the boundaries of the sub genre. As it is my first film by this well known Japanese exploitation director, it's hard to make any comparison with his other work. Similarities seem to be there quite often. Reiko Ike is a familiar face ever since his first Girl Boss Blues film and Miki Sugimoto returns after her part in Girl Boss Gurerilla. It's hard to keep my expectations low at this point.But no worries, you'll have plenty of reason to be excited for Lynch Law Classroom, which I'm told is supposedly the second film in the series... Women's Violent Classroom being the first. Yet again placing various tempting theme's in an interesting setting. A high school full of terrifying girls, as the title gave away already. Delinquent girls in a violent game of sex, torture and corruption. It's all I needed to hear, I'm so in!!A brilliantly chosen environment for all the great things to come, this high school has everything it needs to keep you hooked and thrilled for quite a while. Again, these films rarely take a long time to unfold so you will never find the opportunity to doze off. There's no stopping Suzuki and his large group of blood and sweat thirsty girls.It's quite obvious where this is heading from the very first minute. With the cool music playing, the stylish shots and of course some blood draining torture. It's not taking baby steps, but it still knows how to trigger your wtf-muscle plenty of times after this opening sequence. Sure, it might not be all that shocking by modern standards, but the great amount of violence and sex still has its effect one way or another.Suzuki certainly ends with a bang in this one. Offering the viewer one last amazing display of ultra violence in a huge riot at the gates of the school. This all happens right after the girls trashed most of the building where Reiko Ike and Miki Sugimoto had a fight of their own, of course with their boobs hanging out. Exactly how it should be!This director definitely convinced me and I'll be looking forward to screening Sex &Fury and of course the entire Girl Boss series. There's no doubt in my mind that I love the Japanese exploitation, and Terrifying Girls' High School is yet again a perfect example to explain this affection.

Outrageous pinku flick starring Miki Sugimoto as a determined delinquent high school gang leader joining forces with others forming an alliance to avenge the murder of her best friend, who was tortured by a sadistic group known as "desciplinarians" allowed by the corrupt Vice President of a private all-girls reform school(..known as "The School of Hope", if you can believe it)to carry out violent methods in order to "educate" them in the proper forms of behavior. As Noriko, Sugimoto fulfills the requirements of her role, to talk tough, look delectable and sexy, command the screen as if she owns it, & stand tall even through the unglamorous situations(..like when she's tortured with electrified wires to her breast nipple and pubic hair). Her equal, Reiko Ike, has a smaller role as a rival gang leader, Takigawa, who unintentionally gets immersed in the school war granting Noriko a reprieve until the revenge is settled. Noriko has a five days to take out the disciplinarian committee, but such a task would be incredibly difficult if she didn't align herself with an ex-detective, now tabloid reporter(Tsunchiko Watase), always wearing shades, with a cigarette in his mouth, who has clever methods at catching political types in compromising situations. He wishes to see the school crumble to ashes, understanding that from the top, chairman Nobuo Kaneko, to the bottom, vice-president Kenji Imai, that it's riddled with corruption. The vice president(..who soon becomes president when his boss is caught on tape admitting to his fantasies regarding school girls while Noriko's gang trapped him in a motel, sexually molesting him!)is actually sleeping with the girl he has in charge of the disciplinarian committee, while the chairman has an appetite for raping underage girls(..we see a bright girl, eyeing a scholarship, commit suicide after the chairman rapes her). As a reporter, Watase's camera comes in handy, and he's able to trick politicians into a sex orgy with minors, using the photos as blackmail for the chairman. As Noriko and her sisterhood plot and capitalize against their foes, the disciplinarian committee use tactics at their disposal(..the police who are paid off by the school and the vice president who has a knack for looking away)to attack them in grueling and embarrassing ways. Watase's able to coerce Takigawa into joining the effort to stop the vice president and the girls who work for him, eventually even banding together with Noriko to bring down the school by any means possible.TERRIFYING GIRL'S SCHOOL fulfills the pinku requirements we have come to expect..over-the-top violence(..the most vicious committed by young women against each other), shocking subject matter of a sexual nature(..pedophilia run rampant as nearly all male authoritative figures are deviants who enjoy pleasure with high school girls admitting to their fetishistic lust for their uniforms), catfights, torture(..one sequence has the disciplinarians forcing a victim to watch blood, extracted from her arm, fill a test-tube), women-behaving-badly(..you see school girls "gang rape" the elderly president, on his way to retirement!), and the tough females outwitting their male enemies. Sugimoto and Ike effortlessly grab your attention when on screen. Ike might have a supporting role, but when she throws around those that oppose her with ease, you just can't help but applaud her..that and she sure looks great riding that motorcycle. Sugimoto's face carries the same reserve as always, facing danger and harm without batting an eye, the cold stare of hate, awaiting her chance at vengeance. We even get a terrific lesbian sequence in a locked girl's stall as Noriko's nympho gang member fishes information from a disciplinarian by providing her with pleasure. And, as usual, the ladies are lovely to look at. Nothing much in the story department, basic revenge plot between rival gangs within a school environment, and the immoral, unconstitutional acts of those in charge is exposed. Norifumi Suzuki's film doesn't even attempt to masquerade as anything other than a sleazy, violent gang film, only that he brings a polish and style to it provided by a nice Toei studios budget, although the suicide, which essentially advocates the riot that ensues, does add a bit of tragedy that thwarts the overall tongue-in-cheek mood.

While "Kyôfu joshikôkô: bôkô rinchi kyôshitsu" aka. "Terrifying Girls' Highschool: Lynch Law Classroom" of 1973 may be one of the weaker Pinky violence flicks by director Norifumi Suzuki ("Sex And Fury"), it is still a highly entertaining exploitation flick that fans of Japanese Cult-Cineam should not miss out on. More precisely, out of all Pinky Violence flicks I've seen, this is actually among the weaker films, but I am talking about an awesome exploitation sub-genre that includes awesome films such as Suzuki's own "Sex And Fury", "Female Yakuza Tale", "Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs" or, especially, the brilliant "Joshuu Sasori" (aka. "Female Prisoner Scorpion") films with Meiko Kaji.What makes "Terrifying Girls' Highschool" especially worth watching is the casting of Japanese exploitation dream-team Miki Sugimoto and Reiko Ike, basically THE two ravishing goddesses of Pinky Violence cinema. The reason why this is one of the weaker Pinky flicks is the fact that the story is occasionally pretty damn silly. However, it does make up for this fault with an enormous amount of sleaze and perversions. The film actually starts out very disturbingly, with an opening sequence that I will not describe any further, as I don't wanna spoil anything. The film is about a High school for delinquent girls, in which a sardonic vice-principal and his henchgirls rule with unorthodoxly brutal methods. When three young female delinquents, one of them the ravishing girl-gang boss Noriko (played by sexy Miki Sugimoto), are brought to the school, however, they are not willing to just put up with the abuse like their fellow students...The tons of explicit sleaze should be reason enough for an exploitation fan to find the film worthwhile, and the film has several other qualities. "Terrifying Girls' Highschool" has a weird (and very sleazy) sense of humor, that is, at some points, ingenious. The main reason to watch this, however, are its ravishing stars Miki Sugimoto and Reiko Ike. Reiko's character is actually not introduced until about half way into the film, but Miki is the leading character, and she's once again both incredibly cool and incredibly sexy. The film's plot may be a bit messy (in the middle, it sometimes even drags a little), but that is not to say that it isn't highly entertaining. Overall "Terrifying Girl's Highschool" isn't as quite as good as the comparable "Girl Boss Guerilla" (also starring Reiko and Miki), and certainly no highlight of Pinky Violence cinema, but it is nonetheless an immensely entertaining film that I highly recommend to my fellow lovers of Japanese Exploitation!

When three transfer students arrive at the Girls' Hope High School,they refuse to tolerate the routine abuse to which the majority of the students are subjected.A group of students known as the disciplinary committee administer the torture in the science lab.The transfer students played by Miki Sugimoto,Misuzu Ota and Seiko Saburi, resist the abuse and stage a coup with the other students.Matters turn personal when Miki Sugimoto's character Noriko finds out that the disciplinary committee is responsible for the murder of one of her closest friends."Terrifying Girls' High School:Lynch Law Classroom" is a well-made and visually impressive pinky violence flick with plenty of sex,bare breasts and blood.The use of colors is wonderful and the main theme of film is appropriately misogynistic.Check it out.