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October 03, 2005
Kamikaze Girls (2004) ***
Twerpy to a fault, Tetsuya Nakashima’s Kamikaze Girls (Shimotsuma monogatari), set in a small town outside of Tokyo, is a bright, chipper adventure for two Japanese teen girl popstars (Kyoko Fukada, Anna Tsuchiya), with a dazzling range of restless eyeball kicks studding their Lolita-esque adventures, including bursts of animation inspired by shojo comics, and a keen sense of subcultural mayhem, from motorcycle iconography to Japanese street fashion to teen pop pictures to real-life teen girl rebellion.
As one character asserts, “Fashion taught me how to live. When I see clothes, they speak to me. They make me want to be worthy of them.” Kamikaze Girls is bubblegum that never loses its sugar. 102m.
Posted by pride at October 3, 2005 06:42 PM
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