
Momoko Ryugasaki is the daughter of a smalltime gangster that forges Versace brand and a lowlife woman. Momoko is smitten by the Rococo period and dresses in a Lolita style, with frilly dresses and embroidery bonnet. She is raised by her father since her mother divorced him to marry her gynecologist, and he has taught her how to perfectly embroider. When Mr. Ryugasaki includes the Universal Studios brand in his products, he is forced to move to the rural Shimotsuma with Momok... (Full plot summary below)
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Momoko Ryugasaki is the daughter of a smalltime gangster that forges Versace brand and a lowlife woman. Momoko is smitten by the Rococo period and dresses in a Lolita style, with frilly dresses and embroidery bonnet. She is raised by her father since her mother divorced him to marry her gynecologist, and he has taught her how to perfectly embroider. When Mr. Ryugasaki includes the Universal Studios brand in his products, he is forced to move to the rural Shimotsuma with Momoko to live in the house of her grandmother. Momoko decides to sell her collection of forged Versace and Universal Studios to make money to buy her expensive clothing. The rebel "yanki" Ichigo Shirayuri visits Momoko to buy clothes and soon they begin the most unlikely friendship.
Leave your thoughts about Kamikaze Girls.
| Film4Holly Grigg-SpallAn inventive bittersweet celebration of Japanese youth culture. |
| Los Angeles CityBeatAndy Klein...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. |
| New York TimesManohla DargisThe yummy Japanese confection Kamikaze Girls deserves both a better title and an audience to go with it. |
| L.A. WeeklyChuck WilsonFor this viewer, the climactic scooter-gang rumble, heavy on plot twists and empowerment speeches, felt eternal, but for many, the happy silliness of the film's first half should carry the day. |
| New York PostV.A. MusettoWhat 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. |
| Los Angeles TimesCarina ChocanoA glorious blend of kitsch, grit, humor and uplift. |
| Film Journal InternationalDavid NohNakashima vividly captures the zeitgeist of today's Japanese youth culture, obsessed with fashion, pachinko games and speedy pop culture. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonNakashima never allows the story to set foot in any kind of reality, and keeps the comic book panels flashing by. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenOriginality is not all it's cracked up to be. |
| Filmcritic.comChris BarsantiUtterly silly but still thoroughly original, it has more spunk than a half-dozen studio teen flicks |