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Summary: Excellent movie and facinating look into the world of kogals
Review: I saw an oversees version of this movie and can't wait to get this U.S. release about the trendy young kogals in late 90's Japan and what they do to afford the latest name brand fashion. Let's just say no afterschool jobs at the mall for them, these girls "work" to sport their Gucci. When one girl sees her hopes of studying abroad stolen from her, a newly found kogal friend helps her out by finding "work" for her. She too is then exposed to the seedy world of men taking advantage of girls' materialistic desires in exchange for pleasure. Throughout it all the girls manage to keep their hope and pride intact, but not without a little sadness... and some fun too.
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Summary: kids, just a million times better.
Review: I stummbled upon bkg on vcd in honk kong over four years ago and its been sitting in my collection ever since, unwatched.
Yesterday on a whim i decided to give it a go and i can hounestly say i haven`t been that moved by a film in a very long time.
The film follows the blossoming of an intense [if short lived] friendship bettween three girls in tokyo whilst they franticaly spend twenty four hours trying to come up with 500, 000 yen for a journy to new york.
What makes bkg so intresting and at times disturbing is that it is set in the world of the kogals [Young school girls in japan willing to sell themselves to the less than savoury japanese buisness man for the latest in fashion brand names...]
The film is an incredibaly heart felt exploration of the loss of inosence and the destructive force of sexual corruption in a culture not willing to stop and look at its self, at one point brilliantly bought up in the film by one of the kogals,`when adults don`t know when to say no they act like children, then it is us, the real children who have the real controle.` I would recomend this film to anyone who loves cinema, espeacialy if you have any intrest in japan.
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