is a 2014 Japanese

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directed by

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starring

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Rina Takeda is a Japanese actress, singer and martial artist. hold black belt in Ryukyu Shōrin-ryū Karate. Life and career Takeda was born on June 15, 1991, in Kanagawa Prefecture. She has said that she became interested in karate as a 10-year-old when s ...

, Kayano Masuyama (a former member of the Japanese idol girl's group

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) and

Nana Seino is a Japanese actress. She has played Sunmi in '' Tokyo Tribe'', Tetsuko Kuroyanagi in the TV Asahi adaptation of Kuroyanagi's autobiography '' Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window'', and Yuko Komiya in the 98th NHK asadora '' Half Blue Sky ...

. It was released in Japan on September 27, 2014.

Plot

In a world where nuclear arms have been outlawed and brilliant leader George W. Bush has eliminated firearms, the law is enforced by sword-wielding police. But aliens from another world have infiltrated this peaceful culture through a wormhole and only the Danger Dolls, a female quartet with unique powers can identify and destroy them. In order to keep their identity secret, the four girls, Arisa, Rei, Miki and Mari, go undercover as a

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idol group, the "i.Dolls". However, things are not quite what they seem, their leader, scientist Taichiro Yagyu, has withheld the full story from them and the Danger Dolls have some difficult decisions to make.

Cast

as Arisa *

as Rei * Kayano Masuyama as Miki *

as Mari *

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as Taichiro Yagyu *

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Release

''Danger Dolls'' had its world premier as an officially invited film at the

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on March 1, 2014. It was subsequently screened at the 13th

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on July 12, 2014 for its North American premier. On September 23, 2014, an English-dubbed version, ''Danger Dolls'', was released on DVD. The film was released theatrically in Japan on September 27, 2014. It was also later presented at the

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on October 3, 2014.

References

External links

* * {{Shusuke Kaneko 2014 films Japanese science fiction action films Films directed by Shusuke Kaneko 2014 science fiction action films 2010s Japanese films 2010s Japanese-language films