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Tokyo gomi onna (2000)
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Boring film about an unhappy girl moreCast
(Credited cast)| Mami Nakamura | ... | Miyuki | |
| Kazuma Suzuki | ... | Yoshinori | |
| Kou Shibasaki | ... | Kyoko | |
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| Sayuri Oyamada | |||
| Tomorowo Taguchi | ... | Master of Cafe | |
| Masahiro Toda | ... | Kawashima | |
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Love Cinema Vol. 1 (International: English title) (series title)Tokyo Garbage Girl
Tokyo Trash Baby (International: English title)
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I have to believe that people like Miyuki actually exist, because I knew a guy who did exactly the same thing though for a different purpose. He rummaged through waste paper baskets, garbage bags and incinerators in the hope of finding secret and useful information about the activities taking place in a competing company. A private spy, you might say.
In this film a waitress called Miyuki wants to find out more about Yoshinori a young musician who lives in the apartment above hers so she sifts through his discarded garbage bags in the hope of finding some clues about his private life. Outside her working hours she seems to spend all her time seated on the floor poring over torn letters and photos, cigarette butts and empty packets,a musical score, rotten fruit and even a used condom. Frustrated Miyuki has the disgusting habit of diving her hand into a packet of biscuits while dissecting the contents of the garbage bags. So much for hygiene!
Entertaining for the first ten minutes, it starts to get very boring because the pace is slow and for me there is nothing of interest amongst the garbage any way. The young actress is good and she really gets inside and maintains the character of a discontented girl with an unfulfilled passionate crush on the guy upstairs. Now and again a new discovery in the trash gives the story a bit of a lift. For example, her single-mindedness encourages her to seek out the address of a girl which she finds on a torn letter. Not what I call great drama.
Not exciting enough for me. Warning: Don't waste your precious time!