Girls with guns explained

Girls with guns is a subgenre of action films that portray a female protagonist engaged in shootouts. The genre typically involves gun-play, stunts and martial arts action.[1]

Live action

The 1985 Hong Kong film Yes, Madam, directed by Corey Yuen and starring Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock, was described by film and gender scholar Lisa Funnell as the first "girls with guns" film.[2] More films of the subgenre were produced until 1994, featuring the likes of Yukari Oshima, Moon Lee, Cynthia Khan and Sharon Yeung. In the early 2000s, films that were part of what has been called a "girls with guns revival" were produced. They included Martial Angels (2001), The Wesley's Mysterious File (2002) and So Close (2002).[3]

Animation

The subgenre has also permeated the anime space. Some examples include Black Lagoon, Bubblegum Crisis,[4] Dirty Pair,[5] [6] Gunsmith Cats, Gunslinger Girl, Lycoris Recoil, Noir, Madlax,[7] El Cazador,[8] [9] Masamune Shirow's and Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell and its television adaptation as well as Yasuomi Umetsu's works Kite, Mezzo Forte, Mezzo DSA, and Kite: Liberator.[10]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kaiju Shakedown: Girls with Guns . Hendrix . Grady . Grady Hendrix . 3 June 2015 . . . 2021-11-08 .
  2. Book: Funnell . Lisa . Lent . John . Fitzsimmons . Lorna . Asian Popular Culture in Transition . 2013 . Routledge . London . 9781136300974 . 172 . Fighting for a Hong Kong/Chinese Female Identity: Michelle Yeoh, Body Performance, and Globalized Action Cinema . https://books.google.com/books?id=Zua1LOWI_ngC&pg=PA171.
  3. Book: Funnell, Lisa . 21 May 2014 . Warrior Women: Gender, Race, and the Transnational Chinese Action Star . . 70, 172 . 9781438452500.
  4. Web site: Bubblegum Crisis Collection VHS. 2021-08-05. Anime News Network. en.
  5. Web site: 2003-10-23. How Many Girls with Guns Anime are There . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090122202945/http://www.animenation.net/blog/2003/10/23/ask-john-how-many-girls-with-guns-anime-are-there/. 2009-01-22. 2008-09-15. AnimeNation.
  6. Web site: Dirty Pair Sub.DVD Boxset 1. 2021-08-05. Anime News Network. en.
  7. Wong. A.. Inside Bee Train. Newtype USA. 8–15. March 2005.
  8. Web site: January 3–10 News . 2007-01-19 . 2007-01-06 . Anime News Service . Following Noir and Madlax, this El Cazador will be the third installment in a series of what Director Koichi Mashimo has referred to as his girls-with-guns genre trilogy. . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070203232225/http://www.animenewsservice.com/archives/janx.htm . 2007-02-03 .
  9. Web site: Yegulalp. Serdar. All of the Best Studio Ghibli Movies From Nausica to Marnie. 2021-08-05. LiveAbout. en.
  10. News: Justin Sevakis's Review on Kite Liberator. 2010-01-15. Anime News Network.

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