Movie
Love & Pop
Overview
Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an expensive ring.
Details
- Release date
- 1998-01-10
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Toei Company, Cine Bazar
- Country
- Japan
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Asumi Miwa as Hiromi Yoshii
- Kirari as Chisa Noda
- Hirono Kudo as Nao Yokoi
- Yukie Nakama as Chieko Takamori
- Mitsuru Hirata as Kakegawa
- Mitsuru Fukikoshi as Yoshimura
- Moro Morooka as Yazaki
- Toru Tezuka as Uehara
- Ikkei Watanabe as Kobayashi
- Tadanobu Asano as Captain XX
- Naomi Kawase as Woman speaking to Hiromi (voice)
- Akira Ishida as Yoshio
Crew
- Hideaki Anno - Director
- Akio Satsukawa - Screenplay
- Hideaki Anno - Screenplay
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