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Kamikaze Girls

Comedy. Fantasy 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 ... [+]
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
"A glorious blend of kitsch, grit, humor and uplift." POS
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New York Daily News
New York Daily News
"This droll Japanese import puts the predictable banality of most Hollywood teen flicks to shame." POS
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New York Post
New York Post
"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." NEU
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Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
"[It] becomes a mesmerizing lesson in otherness." POS
United StatesUnited States Village Voice "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." NEG
United StatesUnited States The Hollywood Reporter "It's the kind of rollicking rebel-chick flick that should score well in venues that appreciate Quentin Tarantino films." POS
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