Japan Release: 2004.5.15
103 min.
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下妻物語
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Momoko yearns to be part of the Rococo aristocracy. A shame then, as she was born 200 years too late. Born into the Yakuza heartland, she feels, more at home in Versaille than her remote hometown of Shimotsuma, Ibaraki. Her appetite for the lavish doll-like fashion known to its disciples as the “Lolita” look is insatiable. The rebel Ichiko is a Bosozoku motorcycle-gang member on a 50cc scooter. Her Ponytails gang is one of Ibaraki’s “wild speed tribes”, whose teeth-rattling customized bikes are decked out with their fibreglass shields and bannered backrests. She, too, is decked out in her elaborately decorated Tokkofuku boiler-suits. In a world as colorful as Momoko’s sweet-filled lunchbox, the path of these two incongruous girls cross one languid summer.
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