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Dominican Rep. Kamikaze Girls
- Original title
- Shimotsuma monogatari (Kamikaze Girls)
- Year
- 2004
- Running time
- 102 min.
- Country
Japan- Director
- Screenwriter
- Tetsuya Nakashima. Novel: Nobara Takemoto
- Cast
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Kyôko Fukada
Anna Tsuchiya
Hiroyuki Miyasako
Sadao Abe
Eiko Koike
Shin Yazawa
Hirotarô Honda
Kirin Kiki
Yosiyoshi Arakawa- Haruo Mizuno
Katsuhisa Namase
Ryoko Shinohara
Yoshinori Okada- Kanako Irie
Yuichi Kimura
Yoko Maki- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Comedy. Fantasy | Teen/coming-of-age. Friendship
- Synopsis
- 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.
- Awards
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2005: Premios de la Academia Japonesa: Newcomer of the Year. 3 nominations
- Critics' reviews
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"A glorious blend of kitsch, grit, humor and uplift."
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"This droll Japanese import puts the predictable banality of most Hollywood teen flicks to shame."
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"What 'Kamikaze Girls' doesn't have is a plot. As nice as the film looks, it soon grows tiresome -- though I could listen to the Johann Strauss II soundtrack forever."
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"[It] becomes a mesmerizing lesson in otherness."
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"If you value plausibility in movies, skip Kamikaze Girls; this is the sort of picture where getting run over by a truck gives a character gorgeous hair instead of a broken hip."
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"It's the kind of rollicking rebel-chick flick that should score well in venues that appreciate Quentin Tarantino films."
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