Swing Girls
(2004)
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Juri Ueno | ... |
Tomoko Suzuki (Tenor Sax)
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Yûta Hiraoka | ... |
Takuo Nakamura (Piano)
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Shihori Kanjiya | ... |
Yoshie Saito (Trumpet)
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Yuika Motokariya | ... |
Kaori Sekiguchi (Trombone)
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Yukari Toyoshima | ... |
Naomi Tanaka (Drums)
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Kana Sekine | ... |
Hiromi Watanabe
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Asuka | ... |
Chika Kubo
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Fumiko Mizuta | ... |
Yuka Yamamoto (Bass)
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Chiyo Nakamura | ... |
Emiko Okamura
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Masae Nemoto | ... |
Akemi Otsu
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Madoka Matsuda | ... |
Yumiko Shimizu
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Mutsumi Kanazaki | ... |
Rie Ishikawa
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Nagisa Abe | ... |
Reiko Shimoda (Trumpet)
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Misa Nagashima | ... |
Misato Miyazaki
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Eri Maehara | ... |
Kayo Yoshida
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A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the schools brass band.
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summer school | self motivation | high school band | musical contest | mushrooming |Taglines:
Girls meet Jazz!!!Parents Guide:
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Country:
JapanLanguage:
JapaneseRelease Date:
11 September 2004 (Japan) See more »Also Known As:
Swing Girls See more »Box Office
Budget:
JPY 500,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$111,382 (Hong Kong) (2 September 2005)Gross:
$293,268 (Hong Kong) (23 September 2005)Company Credits
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Altamira Pictures Inc., DENTSU Music And Entertainment, Fuji Television Network See more »
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Sekiguchi, Kaori: Nope.
Nakamura, Yuta: How far can we pick?
Sekiguchi, Kaori: How far?
Nakamura, Yuta: Don't these woods belong to your grandpa?
Sekiguchi, Kaori: No, they belong to my mother's friend's cousin's grandpa.
Nakamura, Yuta: So this grandpa isn't your grandpa?
Tanaka, Naomi: Japanese language can be so vague.
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The video game that Tomoko's sister is playing in the house scene is called Space Channel 5 Part 2 for the Playstation 2. The second song the Swing Girls play during the concert is the main theme from the game. The song is called Mexican Flyer by Ken Woodman. See more »Quotes
Nakamura, Yuta: [after being told by Sekiguchi that she used to collect matsutake mushrooms in grandpa's woods] Amazing, does your family own this whole forest?Sekiguchi, Kaori: Nope.
Nakamura, Yuta: How far can we pick?
Sekiguchi, Kaori: How far?
Nakamura, Yuta: Don't these woods belong to your grandpa?
Sekiguchi, Kaori: No, they belong to my mother's friend's cousin's grandpa.
Nakamura, Yuta: So this grandpa isn't your grandpa?
Tanaka, Naomi: Japanese language can be so vague.
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people who swing and people who don't." Obviously going into this movie it's preferable that you have an open mind to a music style such as jazz, but even if you don't it won't be a problem. This film doesn't try to educate or force music on you but merely presents a situation where an unlikely group of students get involved with a music class and then on their own find passion for jazz.
This film could have done much more with its concept and frankly I'm glad that it didn't. It could have added melodramatic situations or over the top comedy, or even both genres simultaneously, but it didn't. Instead this movie took on one direction and made the best of it. Not once did it drag nor were any of its characters annoying or unconvincing. It simply made time fly with pleasant sounds of music that we have heard before but in a situation surrounding girls that normally wouldn't "act up" this way.
Now there is a new alternative for the common association and portrayal of cute Japanese school girls with films like Suicide Club and All About Lily Chou-Chou. Although Swing Girls also carries itself with various themes of music, it is the complete opposite of the other two films noted.
8 out of 10 for being amusingly upbeat, simple and yet confidently delivered without tiring clichés.
Extra Note: For those of you who couldn't get enough of Swing Girls, a new live DVD has been released entitiled "Swing Girls: First And Last Concert", where you can see the original cast and other film-related musicians performing.