Kamikaze Girls (Shimotsuma monogatari) (2004)

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Kamikaze Girls is a great story of two girls: One is in a female biker gang, the other loves everything Rococo and lolita fashion. The two have very different personalities and the latter is completely absorbed in her love for Rococo that she rejects any form of friendship. What develops in interesting, and very funny. Snatches of animation punctuate the film and add to it's comic side, while seri... read more

Kyoko Fukada as fashion-obsessed Momoko isn't enough to salvage this farce. Abundant narration ensures little time is "wasted" on anything that Momoko hasn't already developed facile explanations for. There's a "sideways" mode on the DVD to fill you in on Japanese culture references. Some of the gags are funny, but most devolve into "Kung Fu Hustle"-style slapstick, gross-out humor, or "Family Guy... read more

An outsider wanting to stereotype all Japanese movies would find Kamikaze Girls a feast. It features the staple ingredients – a young woman who loves to wear frilly dresses, long socks and bonnets like a manga character, kitsch editing and music, rebel girls in leather on motorcycles, and a plot that allows for some silly comic book moments. Anyone who has seen Guitar Wolf vehicle ‘Wild Zero�... read more

Description: Kyoko Fukada (Takeshi Kitano's Dolls) plays Momoko who yearns to be part of the Rococo aristocracy. A shame then, as she was born 200 years too late. Ardent loner Momoko is born into the Yakuza heartland. She feels, however, more at home in Versaille than her remote hometown of Shimotsuma, Ibaraki. Her appetite for the lavish doll-like fashion known to its disciples as the "Lolita" look is insatiable. The uber-rebel Ichiko, played by model and cult J-rock icon Anna Tsuchiya, is a Bosozoku motorcycle-gang member. On a 50cc scooter. Laugh at your own risk before she knocks your teeth out. Her Ponytails gang is one of Kyoko Fukada (Takeshi Kitano's Dolls) plays Momoko who yearns to be part of the Rococo aristocracy. A shame then, as she was born 200 years too late. Ardent loner Momoko is born into the Yakuza heartland. She feels, however, more at home in Versaille than her remote hometown of Shimotsuma, Ibaraki. Her appetite for the lavish doll-like fashion known to its disciples as the "Lolita" look is insatiable.

The uber-rebel Ichiko, played by model and cult J-rock icon Anna Tsuchiya, is a Bosozoku motorcycle-gang member. On a 50cc scooter. Laugh at your own risk before she knocks your teeth out. Her Ponytails gang is one of Ibaraki's "wild speed tribes", whose teeth-rattling customized bikes are decked out with their fibreglass shields and bannered backrests. She, too, is decked out in her elaborately decorated Tokkofuku boiler-suits.

In a world is as colourful as Momoko's sweet-filled lunchbox, the path of these 2 incongruous girls cross one languid summer. Asses are kicked (and garments embroidered). KAMIKAZE GIRLS: where Rameau meets the Japanese underbelly on the summery streets of Tokyo. Meet some different Girls on a Motorcycle that would make The Bride blush... ... (more) (less)