Kamikaze Girls

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Kamikaze Girls

Released May 13, 2004

1h 40m

Adventure

Comedy

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Momoko is a 17-year-old girl who is into the Rococo period. Selling off some her yakuza father's hooky t-shirts to fund her shopping habits, she comes across Ichigo, who is her complete opposite, a tough biker chick. The two become mutually dependent on each other in this enjoyable account of an unlikely friendship.

J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

Eventually the story wears thin, and the charm begins to feel more like high blood sugar.

Jun 28, 2022

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Wally Hammond

Time Out

Older audiences may be required to get back in touch with their adolescent appetites for garish decor.

Rated: 3/6

Jun 5, 2008

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G. Allen Johnson

San Francisco Chronicle

Kamikaze Girls, while being a silly, freewheeling, candy-colored lollapalooza, is also a heartfelt tale of friendship.

Rated: 3/4

Oct 28, 2005

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Holly Grigg-Spall

Film4

An inventive bittersweet celebration of Japanese youth culture.

Rated: 4/5

Jun 6, 2008

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Matthew Turner

ViewLondon

Rated: 3/5

Jun 5, 2008

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Andy Klein

Los Angeles CityBeat

...this pop-culture bouillabaisse...is so wacky and fast-paced that it's hard to reconstruct much of it 24 hours later. While it's going down, however, it's always diverting and occasionally hilarious.

Dec 15, 2005

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Olive

THIS MOVIE FEELS LIKE IT WAS MADE FOR ME. COMBINING LIKE HALF OF MY FAVORITE THINGS ALL INTO ONE. OH MY GOD. A NEW COMFORT MOVIE FOR ME FOR SURE.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/20/24

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Jango M

A girl's delight is finding a movie that is filled with eccentricity, girl love and French Renaissance core in a adorable Japanese Lolita girl

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/07/23

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andy h

It sent you a female friendship is admirable but some of the over the top antics cinematography and acting may be too much for some viewers

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

A tale of friendship between two extremely opposite Japanese girls with funny and cute storytelling.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/15/23

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Audience Member

A cult film and with very good reason. Although Kamikaze Girls may first come to most people's attention as a Japanese pop culture icon, it is much more then just that. The two cartoonishly opposite leads of; an attention grabbing biker girl and a border line sociopath obsessed only with cute clothes, are perfectly cast in Tsuchiya and Fukada. Their respective characters are then broken down to their core values and fears throughout the story. Nakashima's trademark imaginatively kinetic direction gets through the plot and character development with ease. The script serves up dashes of perfectly timed humour as well. This is a colourful and detailed film that is so much more clever than it's admittedly positive hype often suggests.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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Audience Member

A great cult classic. From the tackiness of the Yakuza jackets to the dreaminess of Baby, The Stars Shine Bright, this movie touches your heart and makes you laugh, cringe, and sigh at the same time. (also has a lot of gay subtext which is great)

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Tetsuya Nakashima

Director

Kyoko Fukada

Momoko Ryugasaki

Anna Tsuchiya

Ichigo Shirayuri

Hiroyuki Miyasako

Momoko's Father

Nobara Takemoto

Actor

Ryôko Shinohara

Momoko's Mother

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Synopsis

Momoko is a 17-year-old girl who is into the Rococo period. Selling off some her yakuza father's hooky t-shirts to fund her shopping habits, she comes across Ichigo, who is her complete opposite, a tough biker chick. The two become mutually dependent on each other in this enjoyable account of an unlikely friendship.

Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
Screenwriter: Tetsuya Nakashima
Production Co: Viz Media
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Original Language: Japanese
Release Date (Theaters): May 13, 2004, Original
Release Date (DVD): Jan 10, 2006
Runtime: 1h 40m