In a school uniform and with a sword: as Japanese gangsters of the 1970th entered mass culture

Female gangs sukeban appeared to Japan in the late sixties, and already in the 1980th practically disappeared. However they left a noticeable trace in mass culture — girls in the school uniform, armed with swords and chains, appear in an anime, a manga and cinema. magazine "Forbes Woman" tells about the subculture which has thrown down a challenge to patriarchal Japanese society Europeans Quentin Jerome Tarantino are familiar with image of the Japanese teenage girl from the criminal world according to the movie "Kill Bill". His heroine Gy Yubari, professional the murderer and the personal bodyguard the boss of all gangsters — sukeban, however, not quite typical...