Review of Hula Girls (2006) by Jerome Y — 20 Dec 2009

A brilliant light comedy drama about a mining town doomed to close with one man determined to open a Hawaiian village there in order to generate money and save the town. A teacher from Tokyo arrives and starts training the recruits to become hula dancers who are all coal miners daughters. The residents oppose the girls becoming dancers.

This movie follows the trials and tribulations of the recruits from their shaky beginnings through some personal tragedies and to their final triumph at the opening of the Hawaiian Centre. It's guaranteed to give anybody who watches this movie a warm feel-good factor inside at the end. It's even based on a true-life story. I loved it.