Kamikaze Girls (Shimotsuma Monogatari)

[Scourge]

Ummm... Somebody tell me how good this movie is. Please. Thanks.

Trailer.

[Revoltor]

What is this? The Japanime/live-action Thelma and Louise?

[Scourge]

Could be. I've had to watch the trailer about 10 times to try to see everything. I think I'm going to buy this at lunch.

[Scourge]

Well I bought it at lunch, so I'll check it out this weekend. In other news, also while I was at Borders, I went through their tv boxsets and mixed among them was this:



This is a collection of 70's grindhouse/exploitation Sukeban films and here are links to their trailers, in shitty quicktime:

Criminal Woman: Killing Melody

Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom

Girl Boss Guerilla

Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless To Confess

Interesting.

[Grey's Anatomy]

HAWT.

[D_N_G]

pinky violence is awesome, highly recommended if you like jap movies

also check out the single releases

sex & fury
female yakuza story


The pinky violence box is limited to 10K copies and is already almost sold out

[zerokool]

Ummm... Somebody tell me how good this movie is. Please. Thanks.

Hmm... I really liked the movie. I saw it at the Fantasia festival last year, then picked it up on DVD a couple of months ago from yesasia.com. Its kind of a silly chick flick, but with a great sense of style and humour. BUT I tried watching it with my girlfriend's siblings, and her brother was almost falling asleep during it. I guess it is somewhat slow paced in parts (he did however enjoy Public Enemy (a Korean police/murder movie), but I like it enough that the slow parts just don't bother me.

It'd probably be like a 7.5/10 or so...

[mollipen]

Is the US DVD already out? Stupid Viz not sending me a copy yet for review.

The movie is awesome, depending on what you like. It plays up on a lot of Japanese street culture, though, so if you aren't into/familiar with Lolita fashion and the Yankee lifestyle, you'll going to miss out on a decent number of the jokes. At that point, if you like wacky Asian movies, you can still appreciate it - if you're more into the action/kung-fu kind of stuff, you'll probably be bored.

[Dunlap]

It's got pretty colors. And Kyoko Fukada.

[Zenigata]

Saw this last year in NY, it's a fun, light kind of movie. Basically what shidoshi and zerokool said. It's sweet, funny, stylish, a little slow here and there, but not enough to be really bothersome, and you'll appreciate the jokes more if you have some awareness of Japanese trends and fashion and such.

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