Swing Girls

8.2

Set in present-day Japan, Swing Girls is the story of girls who meet and are deeply fascinated by jazz. The heroine is a very typical Japanese teenager. Her character is suggestive of the hidden problem of today's…

Hiraoka Yuta

He won the 'Best Newcomer' prize at the Japan Academy Prize in 2005 for his film debut in Swing Girls. He married a non-celebrity woman in Nov. 2022.

Yaguchi Shinobu

Yaguchi Shinobu is a Japanese film director, editor, and screenwriter. He specializes in feel-good "zero to hero" films, where a group of people take up an unlikely activity, face a number of obstacles, but finally succeed. His film " Waterboys" was particularly successful and led to a TV series which…

Kanjiya Shihori

Kanjiya Shihori is a Japanese actress. As a middle school student, she was discovered by talent scouts at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo. She attended Otsuka Women's University but left early to pursue her acting career. She is currently managed by ABP, Inc. talent agency. Her family name, Kanjiya, is extremely…

Ueno Juri

Juri Ueno, born in Kakogawa, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, is a popular Japanese actress. Juri's family consists of her parents and two older sisters. As a child, Juri Ueno excelled at track and ran short distance races until the first grade of middle school. Because of problems with hyperventilation, she…

Abe Nagisa

Abe Nagisa is Japanese singer and actress from Obihiro City, Hokkaido. In charge of trumpet at the brass band from junior high to high school. She went to Tokyo as a musical audition when she was in high school, and had experience as a musical back dancer while taking lessons at the theater company.…

Nakazawa Natsuki

Nagashima Misa

Kanazaki Mutsumi

Sekine Kana

Toshima Yukari

ONE PIECE International Classics - Movie Brain

4.0

This is a collaborative project between Yaguchi Shinobu, the director of ''Water Boys''(2001) and ''Swing Girls''(2004), and Suzuki Takuji, the director of'' I Am a Cat Stalker''(2009) and ''The Wife of Gegege''(2010).…

Beautiful Crazy

6.3

What is youth all about? Before they could figure out what was happening, Xiao Bu finds herself in a cat fight with Angel over a cigarette, Ah Mi sleeps with Xiao Bu’s boxer boyfriend, and Angel kisses Xiao Bu. What…

The Hidden Town

6.5

Officer Hsu is found poisoned and dead in his room one night, next to him stands multiple sing-song girls who all look like the long-dead Bai Lin, they chant then vanish. Baffled by the seemingly supernatural nature…

Flowers of Shanghai

7.2

Four men pursue courtesans during the late 1880s in Shanghai. The courtesans, Crimson, Pearl, Emerald, Jasmin and Jade, reside in elegant brothels called "Flower Houses". One suiter, Wang, leaves Crimson to pursue…

The Golden Girls

A screenwriter lives with a glamorous actress but is in love with her best friend. (Source: Apple TV）

Swing to the Sky

7.1

A story revolving around a poor girl who comes upon a mysterious contract that pulls her into a wealthy yet strange family. Yu Xiao Yu is a simple and kind girl who struggles to make ends meet. When she becomes the…

The Farewell Girls

7.4

Four singing girls accidentally come to sing, but they realize it's a funeral. As girls then begin to see the weight of life and death, which means goodbye, and they began to sing a melody of mourning, then they discover…

Sewing Sisters

9.5

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, 12 to 16-year-old girls started working at the Pyeonghwa Market. When their peers went to school, the girls were running a sewing machine. They had labor classes. I heard the name…

Let's Sing to that Cloud

Music industry of Prince Teruhiko Saigo and heroine Chiyoko Honma is, again co-starring Following the previous work "in this chest of seventeen-year-old". Along with a number of hit songs, depicting the youth and dreams…