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. However, when punk girl and self-styled 'Yanki' Ichiko comes calling, her days as 'ordinary' are most certainly numbered...
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Cast
- Kyoko FukadaMomoko Ryugasaki
- Anna TsuchiyaIchigo Shirayuri
- Hiroyuki MiyasakoMomoko's Father
- Ryoko ShinoharaMomoko's Mother
- Sadawo AbeRyuji 'the Unicorn' / Doctor
- Yoshinori OkadaBaby 'The Stars Shine Bright' Owner
- Eiko KoikeAkimi
- Shin YazawaMiko
- Yoshiyoshi ArakawaGrocery Store Manager
- Namase KatsuhisaPachinko Parlor Manager
Recommendations
- 75
New York Daily News
A charmingly loony tale of two young loners who form an unlikely bond, this droll Japanese import puts the predictable banality of most Hollywood teen flicks to shame. - 70
The New York Times
The yummy Japanese confection Kamikaze Girls deserves both a better title and an audience to go with it. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
For the Western viewer, the cultural divide acts as a saccharine filter, and Kamikaze, a cult hit in Japan, becomes a mesmerizing lesson in otherness. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
It's the kind of rollicking rebel-chick flick that should score well in venues that appreciate Quentin Tarantino films. - 50
Film Threat
Fluff. The cinematic equivalent of too much cotton candy Tetsuya Nanashima's Kamikaze Girls is a hyperkinetic fun house ride that is about forty five minutes too long. - 50
Variety
Wears out its welcome at 100 minutes, but could find an audience in the West as a latenight attraction at gay fests. - 50
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. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
But it's all done with such high style and whizzes along at such an exhausting pace that you probably won't have enough time to notice how little you care.
