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  • 2005
  • Viz Media
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2005
  • Viz Media
  • 1 h 42 m
Kamikaze Girls

Summary Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Kamikaze Girls, where two girls from utterly different fashion universes -- one a "Lolita," the other a "Yankee" -- cross paths and discover they have far more in common than at first sight. Kamikaze Girls is the latest pop-culture phenomenon to take Japan by storm. It began as a best-selling ...

Directed By: Tetsuya Nakashima

Written By: Nobara Takemoto, Tetsuya Nakashima

  • 2005
  • Viz Media
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2005
  • Viz Media
  • 1 h 42 m

Kamikaze Girls

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
56
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 14 User Ratings
5.1
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Summary Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Kamikaze Girls, where two girls from utterly different fashion universes -- one a "Lolita," the other a "Yankee" -- cross paths and discover they have far more in common than at first sight. Kamikaze Girls is the latest pop-culture phenomenon to take Japan by storm. It began as a best-selling ...

Directed By: Tetsuya Nakashima

Written By: Nobara Takemoto, Tetsuya Nakashima

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
56
43% Positive
6 Reviews
50% Mixed
7 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
56
43% Positive
6 Reviews
50% Mixed
7 Reviews
7% Negative
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90
A glorious blend of kitsch, grit, humor and uplift.
By Carina Chocano FULL REVIEW
75
Fukada captures the stubborn individualism of a girl who embraces an unpopular lifestyle.
By Bill White FULL REVIEW
70
The yummy Japanese confection Kamikaze Girls deserves both a better title and an audience to go with it.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
50
Nakashima does his best to keep the flimsy enterprise afloat, mostly through whooshing camera movements and headlong dives into the grotesque extremes of Japanese kitsch. By the end, the effect is like eating a bellyache's worth of cotton candy.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
50
But it's all done with such high style and whizzes along at such an exhausting pace that you probably won't have enough time to notice how little you care.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
50
Wears out its welcome at 100 minutes, but could find an audience in the West as a latenight attraction at gay fests.
By Derek Elley FULL REVIEW
30
If you value plausibility in movies, skip Kamikaze Girls; this is the sort of picture where getting run over by a truck gives a character gorgeous hair instead of a broken hip.
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Mixed or Average Based on 14 User Ratings
5.1
50% Positive
7 Ratings
7% Mixed
1 Rating
43% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 14 User Ratings
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7% Mixed
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43% Negative
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Production Company Amuse Pictures, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Hori Production, Ogura Jimusyo Co., Parco Co. Ltd., Shogakukan, Toho, Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS), Tokyo FM Broadcasting Co.
Release Date Sep 9, 2005
Duration 1 h 42 m
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Website http://www.kamikazegirls-lefilm.com/
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Awards

Yokohama Film Festival
• 5 Wins & 5 Nominations
Mainichi Film Concours
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Awards of the Japanese Academy
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations

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