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Kamikaze Girls

Play trailer Poster for Kamikaze Girls Released May 13, 2004 1h 40m Adventure Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
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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.

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J. R. Jones Chicago Reader Eventually the story wears thin, and the charm begins to feel more like high blood sugar. Jun 28, 2022 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Holly Grigg-Spall Film4 An inventive bittersweet celebration of Japanese youth culture. Rated: 4/5 Jun 6, 2008 Full Review Matthew Turner ViewLondon Rated: 3/5 Jun 5, 2008 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews
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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