Daring and dangerous: 20 vintage photo Japanese girls SUKEBAN

It is difficult to imagine, but it is a fact in the second half of the XX century on the streets of Japan crime flourished, and acted in the youth street teams, among which were exclusively female. Let's see how they look, women who do not disdain a robbery, massacre, and shop theft.

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"Sukeban" is a slang word used to refer to female juvenile gangs, which gangs controlled the girl. In Japanese "suke" is female, while "ban" means "boss." Followers of the movement SUKEBAN appeared in Japan in the 60's. They were a response to the male gangs "of Banco", which United young men who wanted to get into the Yakuza. To the 70-th years of the group, SUKEBAN occupied a dominant position in the criminal environment, their competitors began to gradually disappear.

Gang SUKEBAN appeared as a group of girls who secretly Smoking in the school locker room. Soon, however, such gangs have become involved in more serious cases.

70 the number of gangs has increased, and girls-SUKEBAN was famous for his cruelty. The extent of the groups ranged from small (the combined group of the Tokyo thieves in stores, about 80 participants) to huge (Female Delinquency Alliance Kanto, which, according to rumors, was about 20 thousand girls all over Eastern Japan). Rival groups often clashed with each other in fights and battles.

In the 70's in a desperate struggle with the television for the attention of the audience in the cinema began to produce it on the big screen erotic movies about SUKEBAN. Perhaps that is what made the threat Japanese Schoolgirls sex symbol. And thanks to "pink films," better known in narrow circles as "pink violence", the number of gangs and their participants has only increased.

Girls-SUKEBAN gathered in crowded places such as train stations, and were armed with chains and razors in case of a brawl. Girls-SUKEBAN prefer bright paint or Curling hair. Their clothes looked like school uniform, but differed long pleated skirts, which were often worn with a cropped blouse. School uniform, they were modified: one sleeve was rolled up, skirts lengthened and painted symbols of gangs. Over time the fashion changed in the 1990s, a Maxi skirt became a mini, but on the face they began to apply a thick layer of makeup.

Members of the groups were required to follow the code. Deviation from the code entailed a "lynching" beginning of the burning cigarette for a minor violation. Forbidden disrespectful attitude to the senior in the group, drug use, flirting with someone else's boyfriend, friendship with a girl from another group.

For the girls it was common to carry a blade or stolen from the gym a bamboo sword. Their traditional weapon was... a yo-yo. Their influence in 80-90 years has reached such a level that police leaflets of SUKEBAN called "harbingers of doomsday".

Despite the efforts of the authorities, gang SUKEBAN reflected in the manga, anime, doujinshi and video games. Followers of SUKEBAN became a prototype of Gogo Yubari from "Kill Bill".