Kamikaze Girls
- Kyoko Fukada: Momoko Ryugasaki
- Anna Tsuchiya: Ichigo Shirayuri
- Hiroyuki Miyasako: Momokos father
- Ryoko Shinohara: Momokos mother
- Sadao Abe: Designer
- Eiko Koike: Akimi
- Shin Yazawa: Miko
- Hirotaro Honda: Yakuza Boss
- Kirin Kiki: Momokos grandmother
Kamikaze Girls (Japanese下 妻 物语, Shimotsuma Monogatari, dt " Shimotsuma Story ") is a 2002 shot by Tetsuya Nakashima Japanese comedy based on the novel by Novala Takemoto. The premiere took place in 2004. In the U.S., the DVD was released in 2006 with original Japanese soundtrack and English subtitles for the first time under the name of Kamikaze Girls. The Japanese version includes as bonus material, among others, interviews with the main actors. In 2010 appeared under the Third Window Films in the UK provided a new version with English subtitles, which contains the bonus material also.
Action
It tells the story of an unusual friendship between the good acting Momoko Ryugasaki, played by Kyoko Fukada, and the daredevil Shirayuri Ichigo (Anna Tsuchiya ). The story takes place in the small town Shimotsuma, Ibaraki, and is thus created that the seventeen year old high school student Momoko collides decorated in a frilly dress in the Lolita look on a moped with a small truck and is hurled through the air.
In these moments, life Momokos Revue is happening: Momoko was born on favorite in the Rococo era in France and lives deep in her childish fantasy world of ruffles and pink. Her fashion is her in her life enough, she does not depend emotionally on their environment. This consists of the life with her senile grandmother in the provincial town Shimotsuma after her father, a small-town gangster and former yakuza, the money earned with clothes plagiarism with the logos of Versace and Universal Studios and had to flee from prosecution. Their motto is that one must walk alone through life, and provides mainly a jumble of pink ruffles and bows, but no animated objects.
Ichigo, who has given himself the not so childish sounding names Ichiko, belongs to a girl motorcycle gang at ( Bosozoku ) that catches the eye again and again by brawling in public. With emphasizes cool and masculine posturing she dons respect verschaffend with her pink motorcycle through the area.
As Momoko begins to sell her father's counterfeit clothing on the internet, the paths of the two antisocial girls cross. From then on visited Ichigo Momokos house almost every day to buy new clothes for themselves and their gear. Only an unusual trip to Tokyo, on a visit to the store of their favorite brand and the other wants to find a legendary embroiderer for gangsters bridal gowns, the two girls closer together. Because the embroiderer can not be found, Momoko offers to their own surprise for the first time in her life someone else a favor and embroiders Ichigo the desired lettering on the jacket.
When the motorcycle gang learns that Ichigo neglected the activities of gear in favor Momokos, members banish the girl from their community by letting ritual send it a challenge to chastise them. In an insane action Momoko rescues her friend at the last minute out of this situation and the two pull it.
The lives of the two seems ready to keep only positive: The chief designer of Momokos favorite fashion chain, Baby, the Stars Shine Bright, is from her embroidery art inspires and provides the high school student on a part-time job. Ichigo become a sought-after model for posters, even though she hates Lolita fashion. But both are skeptical of this rapid development, so that both throw their jobs and decide to continue to see what life can offer them.
Awards
- Anna Tsuchiya won the 2005 Japanese Academy Award, the Kinema Jumpo price and the price of the Yokohama Film Festival for her role in this film in the category Best Young Actress.
- Tetsuya Nakashima was presented, inter alia, the Japanese Professional Movie Award for Best Director and Best Film.