Kamikaze Girls
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- Movie: Kamikaze Girls
- Romaji: Shimotsuma monogatari
- Japanese: 下妻物語
- Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
- Writer: Tetsuya Nakashima
- Producer:
- Cinemotagraphy:
- Release Date: May 29, 2004
- Runtime: 102 min.
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
[edit] Plot synopsis
Kyoko Fukada (Takeshi Kitano's Dolls) 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...
[edit] Notes
As the saying goes, the nail that sticks out gets hammered down. That ain't true of Momoko and Ichiko. Kamikaze Girls, written and directed by Nakashima Tetsuya, was made by hot cult author Novala Takemoto. The secret of Takemoto's continued success (his debut, Sewing Machine sold 500,000 alone) is the sympathetic portraits of his protagonists filled with ennui that have struck a chord with disenfranchised young Japanese citizens.
The girls who fill his candy-coloured universe are, as the proverb goes, the protruding nails. Ever mindful of their growing pains and, of course, the fickle tastes in kitsch fashion that fill the painfully-fashionable streets of Harajuku and Daikan-yama.
[edit] 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
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[edit] Awards
Yokohama Film Festival (Japan)
• Best Movie: SHIMOTSUMA STORY (KAMIKAZE GIRLS)
• Best Director: Nakajima Tetsuya, SHIMOTSUMA STORY (KAMIKAZE GIRLS)
• Best Actress: Kyoko Fukada, SHIMOTSUMA STORY (KAMIKAZE GIRLS)
• Best Supporting Actress: Kirin Kiki, SHIMOTSUMA STORY (KAMIKAZE GIRLS)
• Best New Actress: Anna Tsuchiya, SHIMOTSUMA STORY (KAMIKAZE GIRLS)
Mainichi Film Award (Japan)
• Best Actress: Kyoko Fukada, SHIMOTSUMA STORY (KAMIKAZE GIRLS)
• Best New Actress: Anna Tsuchiya, SHIMOTSUMA STORY (KAMIKAZE GIRLS)
Houchi Film Award (Japan)
• Best New Actress: Anna Tsuchiya, SHIMOTSUMA STORY (KAMIKAZE GIRLS)
