Karate Girl

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Glitch D Karate Girl (2011) might look cool at first glance, but don’t expect depth. The plot is cliché, the characters get no real development, and the fight scenes are stiff and unconvincing. It feels more like a dojo tutorial than an action movie. The villain’s dubbed voice was surprisingly solid—but the rest of the cast? it's background noise at best. Worth watching only if you love low-budget martial arts flicks. This one had potential, but it missed the mark Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 06/09/25 Full Review Audience Member What did I just watch? You could tell it had a decent budget, but technically it was absolutely terrible. There wasn't a single aspect of this film that I would consider technically well made. The only thing that was good was you could tell the martial art perform was well executed, too bad choreography was also terrible and the filming of it, just as bad. That's the problem with taking a chance on foreign film you've never heard of, which is you 95% of the time, but this has to be the worst I've seen. Someone please tell me if this was a student film or not? I refuse to believe Japan let this get a wide release. I hate you netflix for recommending this to me. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member One line summary: Absurd fantasy; complete waste of production values. ----------------------- When very young, Ayaka's karate instructor father was killed and her sister kidnapped. As an adult, Ayaka determines to find out what happened. She has her father's black belt, and the bad folks in the film want to take it in some ritualized way. Ayaka decides to fight back. Will Ayaka survive all the hostile attention? Will the two sisters reunite? Will the director get a better adviser about fight sequences? -------Scores-------- Cinematography: 10/10 Excellent, beautiful, professional. Sound: 10/10 Excellent. Acting: 2/10 Rina Takeda was one of the centres of the film, and her performance was not believable: too light, too small, too thin, too unprepared, too little trained, too slow, too inaccurate. Takeda's opponents were too passive and often unmoving; they seldom press their advantage when a decisive blow was available. This sort of PC nonsense is completely the opposite of convincing. The fist, barely moving, of a 100 pound woman stops and repels the flying kick of a 180 pound man? Never has happened, never will happen--outside of a film where the director holds the viewer in utter contempt. Screenplay: 0/10 Should have been billed as fantasy. There is enough material for a 15 minute short; 91 minutes is way too long, especially when the filler consists of insultingly bogus fight sequences. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie ended up being much more ridiculous than I expected. Really, you can't take any part of it seriously. It was obviously made on a very limited budget and the only point of it was to have the two girls get into fights. And most of the fights were pretty laughable. Bummer. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Simple awesome, hot asian dresses as a school girl kickin the shit out of everyone... instant success. Great Karate tho. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Not great enough but still worth to watch it. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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