Kamikaze Girls/Shimotsuma Monogatari 下妻物語

Fukada Kyoko as Momoko	Tsuchiya Anna as Ichiko (Ichigo)

Ah Kamikaze Girls…

Such a typical J-movie that comes out of seemingly no where to become a favourite. These kinds of movies are rare but Japan somehow always comes up with one every year. I can so totally name these lucky hits since 2000 if I wanted to.

This movie was released in 2004 and seeing its popularity, perhaps there are some of you that wonder why I have not talked about it until now. Well, there may be good reasons like me only coming across it just now (not true), did not have enough yuri to warranty a mention (also not true, well, partly not true) or maybe I was simply being a butt and simply not mention it. I mean there are plenty of movies I have yet to discuss but still.

Stranger still was that even the release of the BluRay not too long ago did not motivate me to re-watch it and discuss. So, why am I mentioning this now?

Well, I do value you dear Readers’ thoughts so when I was asked to say my thoughts on this movie (via tumblr) I figured, I already have it in my possession which means that it can’t be all that bad if it over-came trashing, so I whipped it up in queue last night and re-watched it in glorious HD.

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