Yay! I just watched 'Shimotsuma Monogatari' again better know in the UK by the title 'Kamikaze Girls' I forgot how cool and beautiful this film is. The film is...well...it's got to be about 5 or 6 years old now. Anyway, here is a trailer I found on You Tube for the American release of the film, so please excuse the annoying and somewhat cheesy voice over (which does the film no justice at all)
Here is what was written on the IMDb website at:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416220/plotsummary
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416220
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. A complete fish out of water in her rural and sleepy Japanese town, where everyone buys their clothes (and everything else) at the same store and no one understands her, Momoko's life is one of sugared sweets and frilly treats. Desperate to make some money to pay for her expensive indulgence, Momoko tries selling bootleg Ver*ace and Uni*ersal Studios clothes left over from her Dad's yakuza (gangster) days. However, when punk girl and self-styled 'Yanki' Ichiko comes calling, her days as 'ordinary' are most certainly numbered... Road movie, buddy comedy, deeply insightful and surprisingly touching, the surreal world only further highlights the all too real friendship that brings these two unlikely girls together.
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