6/17/2005

A couple months ago, I saw Shimotsuma monogatari aka “Kamikaze Girls” on regular Japanese TV. Needless to say the movie was improved by the lack of English subtitles. That is, you really don’t want to know how inane the dialog of this film is—-it’s the “Look” that counts. In this flick it’s Marie-Antoinette on acid vs Dyke on a bike.

filmcritic.com Movie Review: Kamikaze Girls
Kamikaze Girls creates a candy-colored Japan that’s hardly more real than a dream …. baby-faced teen whose self-centered musings and obsessions make up the bulk of the film, Momoko Ryugasaki (Kyoko Fukada) lives in Shimotsura, what she thinks of as the most remote, podunk corner of Japan…She dreams of living in 18th century France, and rhapsodizes endlessly about the Rococo era…