High Kick Girl! (2009)

High Kick Girl! is a Japanese martial arts action film written and directed by Fuyuhiko Nishi. It was released by Hexagon Pictures in Japan on May 30, 2009.

The film stars karate champion Rina Takeda as Kei, a cocky young karate expert who joins a 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.

Movie info

Original title: ハイキック☆ガール！
Release date: May 30, 2009

Region 1 NTSC DVD (English subtitles)
Label: First Look Pictures (US)
Out: Mar 30, 2010
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Featured Cast

Actor		Role
	Rina Takeda
	Tatsuya Naka
	Ayako Sugiyama
	Hisae Watanabe
	Ichiro Sugisawa
	Keita Oosone
	Kumi Imura
	Kyoji Amano
	Misako Nagashima
	Rumi Maeda
	Ryoko Gomi
	Sayaka Akimoto
	Yu Kamio
	Yu Misato
	Yuka Kobayashi

Latest news

Review: High Kick Girl!

Well, at least it wasn’t as bad as Shaolin Girl...Fuyuhiko Nishi has spent a good deal of his career doing everything in his power to push the martial arts action film genre in Japan, something...

6 years ago
More “High Kick Girl!” than you can shake a stick at!

It’s been a while since my last post on Fuyuhiko Nishi’s High Kick Girl!, and there have been quite a few updates in recent days, not the least of which being that lovely new poster art to...

8 years ago
Confirmed: “High Kick Girl!” is actually longer than 25 seconds

Much like the Machine Girl phenomenon last year, the first teaser for Fuyuhiko Nishi’s High Kick Girl! got a lot of bloggers’ attention a few weeks back, going mildly viral on some websites...

8 years ago