Shodô gâruzu!!: Watashitachi no kôshien (2010)

School girls compete in a shodo competition.

Director:

Ryûichi Inomata

Writer:

Yûko Nagata (screenplay)

Stars:

Win Morisaki, Nanami Sakuraba, Mitsuki Takahata

Cast

Credited cast:
Win Morisaki	...	Makoto Ichinose
Nanami Sakuraba	...	Kana Shinomori
Mitsuki Takahata	...	Kiyomi Yoshinaga
Riko Narumi	...	Satoko Hayakawa
Rio Yamashita	...	Mio Okazaki
Nobuaki Kaneko	...	Ikezawa
Mayumi Asaka
Fujiko Kojima	...	Koharu Yamamoto
Ryû Morioka	...	Takuya Nakano
Tomohiro Ichikawa	...	Tomoya Takada
Shin'ichi Hatori
Ryôtarô Sakaguchi	...	Satoru Murakami

Storyline

A high-school after-hours club for calligraphy (i.e., Shodo) art is suffering from missing inspiration and fun in lessons, when a new teacher arrives and adds ideas of Shodo performance as expression of vividness of the art (as much as the strict and ritually usual doing of Shodo should do). The story is set in a Japanese town which is a center of paper-making business, when this industry is deteriorating due to nation-wide recession. The Club members (girls and boys) are in the middle of this, as parents and friends suffer from losing business or jobs, and prepare to use the new ideas of Shodo performance instead of silent Shodo-ing for a inter-high-schools competition of this. - This film is beautiful to watch due to nicely developed characters, lots of humor, deep thoughts on friendship, tradition, bravery and loyalty, and is as well nicely photographed and introducing into 21st century Japan, not krass and technoidically, but solemn and touching. Despite the low moods the girls ...

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

15 May 2010 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Shodô Girls!!

Filming Locations:

Shikoku Chuo, Ehime, Japan

Company Credits

Production Co:

Ax-On, Nippon Television Network (NTV), Warner Bros.

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

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