The story in "Silver" is about a female wrestler who is really an undercover agent. Disguised as a wrestling warrior, heroine Jun Shirogane (Atsuko Sakuraba) goes after the gang that killed her family in Takashi Miike's action-packed thriller. Aided by secret service colleague Yusuke Minamida (Kenji Haga), Jun goes undercover as Silver, a formidable fighter in the professional women's wrestling circuit. But Jun's success in the ring doesn't distract her from her primary mission: exacting revenge on the Paradise gang.
Direction
Miike's controlled chaos—79 minutes of barely coherent momentum
Practical Effects
Actual wrestlers doing actual painful-looking wrestling
Costume
Silver's aesthetic: part superhero, part dungeon mistress, all ridiculous
Director
Takashi Miike
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shinobu Kandori and Rumi Kazama were real Joshi wrestlers, not actresses—Miike cast authentic talent for the ring scenes.
This belongs to the 'pink action' subgenre where Toei Studios churned out exploitation films with just enough plot to justify the title.
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