Kamikaze Girls
2004 · Movie · 102 min. · Japan
Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France. A complete fish out of water in her rural and sleepy Japanese town, where everyone buys their clothes (and everything else) at the same store and no one understands her, Momoko's life is one of sugared sweets and frilly treats. Desperate to make some money to pay for her expensive indulgence, Momoko tries selling bootleg Ver*ace and Uni*ersal Studios clothes left over from her Dad's yakuza (gangster) days. However, when punk girl and self-styled 'Yanki' Ichiko comes calling, her days as 'ordinary' are most certainly numbered... Road movie, buddy comedy, deeply insightful and surprisingly touching, the surreal world only further highlights the all too real friendship that brings these two unlikely girls together.
Direction Tetsuya Nakashima
Cast Kyôko Fukada · Anna Tsuchiya · Hiroyuki Miyasako · Sadao Abe · Eiko Koike · Shin Yazawa · Hirotarô Honda · Kirin Kiki · Yosiyoshi Arakawa · Katsuhisa Namase · Ryoko Shinohara · Yoshinori Okada · Kanako Irie · Haruo Mizuno · Yuichi Kimura · Yoko Maki
Soundtrack Yoko Kanno
Screenplay Tetsuya Nakashima · Nobara Takemoto
Cinematography Masakazu Ato
Original title Shimotsuma monogatari (Kamikaze Girls)
6.2
938 votes (FilmAffinity)
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