“High Kick Girl” Japanese Theatrical Poster
High Kick Girl and Karate Girl Rina Takeda joins forces with Japanese girl band You’ll Melt More! for the music video for their latest song “Never Give Up Drunk Monkey.” The song features Rina as a put-upon office lady inspired by the band’s music to strike back against some office misconduct.
You’ll Melt More! is a New Wave Girl group formed in 2012, who perform everything from Rock, Punk Rock, Hip Hop, Electronica and New Wave, and have collaborated with Montreal, Miyavi, Polysics and Guitar Wolf, have a cult following in Japan, Korea and China.
The video (directed by Lipstick’s Ainosuke Shibata) pays an affectionate tribute to Drunken Master and Drunken Master 2, as Rina abandons her Karate-styling for a more fluid Drunken Boxing-style and also features some Hwang Jang Lee and Ken Lo-inspired villainy by Nobutoshi Takahashi, a student of legendary Japanese martial arts movie legend Yasauki Kurata.
Update: The more Rina-centric cut of the music videos been added below:
Did anybody catch the other Jackie Chan references? I like how the band members also dressed up as Jackie from the beginning of police story, the black suit from Rush Hour, and Benny the Jet’s outfit from Wheels on Meals.
the whole video is an affectionate nod to all manner of Jackie movies while this is the more Rina’centric version with the full fights and out-takes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb204OHzSWc