Kamikaze Girls
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- Movie: Kamikaze Girls
- Romaji: Shimotsuma monogatari
- Japanese: 下妻物語
- Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
- Writer: Tetsuya Nakashima
- Producer: Takashi Hirano, Yuji Ishida, Satoru Ogura, Kunikatsu Kondo, Yokichi Osato
- Cinematographer Masakazu Ato
- Release Date: May 29, 2004
- Runtime: 102 min.
- Production Company: Toho, TBS, Amuse
- Distributor: Toho
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Kyoko Fukada plays Momoko who yearns to be part of the Rococo aristocracy. A shame then, as she was born two centuries too late. Ardent loner Momoko is born into the Yakuza heart-land. She feels, how ever, more at home in Versaille than her distant home-town of Shimotsuma, Ibaraki. Her appetite for the lavish doll-like fashion known to its disciples as the "Lolita" look is insatiable.
The uber-rebel Ichiko, played by model and cult J-rock icon Anna Tsuchiya, is a Bosozoku motor-cycle-gang member. On a fifty C.C. scooter. Laugh at your own risk before she knocks your teeth out. Her Pony-tails gang is one of Ibaraki's "wild speed tribes", whose teeth-rattling customized bikes are decked out with their fibreglass shields and bannered back rests. She, too, is decked out in her elaborately decorated Tokkofuku boiler-suits.
In a world is as colourful as Momoko's sweet-filled lunch-box, the path of these two incongruous girls cross one languid summer. Asses are kicked (and garments embroidered). KAMIKAZE GIRLS: where Rameau meets the Japanese underbelly on the summery streets of Tokyo. Meet some different Girls on a Motor-cycle that would make The Bride blush...
Cast
- Kyoko Fukada - Momoko Ryugasaki
- Anna Tsuchiya - Ichigo Shirayuri
- Hiroyuki Miyasako - Momoko's Father
- Sadao Abe - Ryuji 'the Unicorn'/Doctor
- Eiko Koike - Akimi
- Shin Yazawa - Miko
- Hirotaro Honda - Yakuza Boss
- Kirin Kiki - Momoko's Grandmother
- YosiYosi Arakawa - Grocery Store Manager
- Katsuhisa Namase - Pachinko Parlor Manager
- Ryoko Shinohara - Momoko's Mother
- Yoshinori Okada - Baby, 'The Stars Shine Bright' Owner
- Kanako Irie
- Haruo Mizuno - Himself
- Yuichi Kimura - Yakuza
- Marie Machida
- Mie Ohta
- Konomi Morita
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Awards
- "Rookie of the Year" (Anna Tsuchiya) - 2005 (28th) Japan Academy Prize - February 18, 2005
- "Best Newcomer" (Anna Tsuchiya) - 2004 (47th) Blue Ribbon Awards - February 14, 2005
nururu88 Says:
Dec 20 2011 6:45 am
This movie is amazing, worth buying!!
Christopher Says:
Oct 31 2010 3:21 pm
im enjoy watching this,this was so great movie!!
=) Says:
Apr 20 2010 3:14 pm
I love this movie! Kyoko Fukada's the best!