Kamikaze Girls
2004 1h 42m movie Film Japan

Kamikaze Girls

下妻物語

“The extraordinary adventures of a Lolita-look aficionado and a tough biker gang chick.”

Synopsis

下妻物語

“The extraordinary adventures of a Lolita-look aficionado and a tough biker gang chick.”

Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France. However, when punk girl and self-styled 'Yanki' Ichiko comes calling, her days as 'ordinary' are most certainly numbered…

Titles With Overlapping Themes

Films and series that share thematic tags with Kamikaze Girls. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.

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The 2003–2005 Japan Window

Kamikaze Girls holds position #118 of 298 Japan films in the 2003–2005 window, below highlighted by audience rating.

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    #1

    Bakuryu Sentai Abaranger

    ★ 9.2 · 2003
  2. Avril Lavigne: Bonez Tour 2005 - Live at Budokan
    #2

    Avril Lavigne: Bonez Tour 2005 – Live at Budokan

    ★ 9.1 · 2005
  3. Ultraman Nexus
    #3

    Ultraman Nexus

    ★ 9.1 · 2004
  4. The Great White Tower
    #4

    The Great White Tower

    ★ 8.9 · 2003
  5. Aria
    #5

    Aria

    ★ 8.7 · 2005
  6. Ninja Nonsense
    #6

    Ninja Nonsense

    ★ 8.7 · 2004
  7. Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger
    #7

    Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger

    ★ 8.7 · 2004
  8. Monster
    #8

    Monster

    ★ 8.6 · 2004

The 2000s Japan Landscape

Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in Japan, 1020 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Kamikaze Girls premiered alongside 95 others.

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Position in Catalog

Released alongside 95 other Japan films in 2004.

The 1601st Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).

Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).

Audience Engagement

167
Reviews
83rd
Review-volume percentile
82nd
Popularity percentile

167 audience reviews — more than 83% of Japan films in our index.

Popularity sits at the 82th percentile among Japan films.

Thematic Fingerprint

Tags on Kamikaze Girls, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.

Distinctive themes · rare across catalog
  • motorcycle gang · 4
  • scooter · 1
  • girl gang · 1
Mainstream tags · widely used across catalog
  • japan · 454
  • based on novel or book · 288

Reception Benchmarks

7.0
TMDB Rating
167
Audience Reviews
Highly Rated
Critical Tier

Ranked #2,110 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (54th percentile by TMDB audience score).

Among Japan Comedy productions specifically: #733 of 1,411 (top 52%).

Production Details

Primary CountryJapan
Original LanguageJapanese
Production CompaniesAmuse Pictures, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Ogura Jimusyo Co., PARCO, Shogakukan
Runtime1h 42m
Release DateMay 29, 2004
IMDbtt0416220
Official Sitewww.kamikazegirls.net

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