Review of Kamikaze Girls (2004) by Rick R — 30 Mar 2015

Kamikaze Girls (2004).

Also known as Shimotsuma Monogatari.

This is kind of a really strange Japanese teen comedy about Momoko Ryugasaki (Kyoko Fukada) who loves the Rococco style and dresses as a Lolita (frilly little girl dresses). Her father (Hiroyuki Miyasako) is a failed Yakuza gangster who has moved them out of Tokyo and into a farm town in the western provinces in with his mother, where Momoko is the only Lolita in the small town.

With no financial options, she tries to make a little money selling off her dad's counterfeit Versache apparel. This is how she meets Ichigo Shirayuri (Anna Tsuchiya) who is a wild biker girl (well not Bosozuku, she rides a motor scooter) and is a rebel Yanki. They wear long coats with stitching on it, blonde or orange hair and are rather loud and rude; the complete opposite of Momoko's Lolita style.

Momoko embroiders onto Ichigo's jacket, and somehow they strike up a friendship and compliment each other.