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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

1982 · 1 season

A quiet, serious coming-of-age story steeped in yakuza tension, balancing school life with the weight of criminal responsibility.

Created by
Shunsaku Kawake
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Crime
Starring
Tomoyo Harada, Ryōichi Takayanagi, Koji Mizukami
Overview
The drama depicts an ordinary high school student growing up by becoming a yakuza head.

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Created by
Shunsaku Kawake
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Crime
Starring
Tomoyo Harada, Ryōichi Takayanagi, Koji Mizukami
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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • coming-of-age
  • identity
  • crime
  • power
  • betrayal
Places
  • big city
  • school
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror1
Humour4
Realism7
Romance3
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
comedy, drama, crime
Created by
Shunsaku Kawake
Written by
Shōji Imai
Starring
Tomoyo Harada, Ryōichi Takayanagi, Koji Mizukami, Tayayasu Ono, Yasuhiro Arai, Kai Ato, Hiromichi Hori, Jun Fubuki
Music
Shin Kawabe
Length
1 seasons, 11 episodes, 24 min each
Network
Fuji TV
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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