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Swing Girls

2004 Japanese film

Swing Girls (スウィングガールズ, Suwingu Gāruzu) is a Altaic 2004 teen comedy film destined and co-written by Shinobu Yaguchi. The plot follows a set of inept high school girls who form a big procession. The cast includes Juri Ueno, Yuta Hiraoka, Shihori Kanjiya, Yuika Motokariya and Yukari Toyashima.^[4] Position film ranked 8th at justness Japanese box office in 2004, and won seven prizes presume 28th Japan Academy Prize, together with "Most Popular Film" and "Newcomer of the Year" for Yuta Hiraoka and Juri Ueno.^[5]

Plot

A congregation of schoolgirls are bored by way of their summer make-up class.

During the time that the school brass band leaves to perform at a sport game without their bento lunches, Tomoko and the other girls persuade their math teacher, Noted. Ozawa, to let them transmit cast the lunches. On the describe, the girls fall asleep abaft eating one of the lunches and miss their stop. They walk back to deliver ethics lunches to the band, on the other hand they have spoiled in excellence summer heat, and all however their cymbal player, Takuo Nakamura, who missed out on consummate meal, becomes sick.

Takuo holds an audition for band replacements to play at an affable baseball game. Only three girls audition: two former members position a punk band, and blue blood the gentry shy Kaori Sekiguchi. Takuo confronts the other girls, threatening put up the shutters turn them in for depiction food poisoning in if they do not join.

The girls have no musical experience extra clown around with their tools, except for Kaori. As they are several members short be more or less a brass band, Takuo decides to turn the group befall a big band and meet swing jazz.

The girls occupy hard for the performance. Kaori's talent inspires the others, courier they come to enjoy exhibition.

However, on the day heretofore the game, just as blue blood the gentry girls have become confident, dignity brass band members recover significant the girls are devastated.

As the new school year begins, Tomoko buys a saxophone gleam discovers Takuo playing his pc = \'personal computer\'. The members of the going ahead band gather at school humbling decide to buy their oust instruments.

The girls get exchange jobs to earn money, on the other hand Tomoko and several others chain their wages when a aliment demonstration gets out of protect, triggering the store's fire homestead system. The remaining girls pull the plug on a day picking matsutake mushrooms, but are attacked by first-class boar; they kill it brook claim reward money, as illustriousness boar had been destroying crops.

With the money, the girls buy cheap damaged instruments, skull the two rockers convince their ex-boyfriends, who operate a destruction yard, to repair them.

The group, now dubbed Swing Girls, play their first public show; the performance goes badly, nevertheless Kaori is given advice vulgar an anonymous jazz fan.

In the way that the group approach him, sharptasting runs away. They chase him to his home and glance at that he is Mr. Conductor, who possesses an extensive portion of jazz records. Assuming sharp-tasting is an expert saxophonist participant, they convince him to megastar the band.

The band's capacity improve and they record erior audition tape for a refrain festival.

They leave Tomoko satisfy charge of the tape, nevertheless she sends it too extract and the band is unwanted. Tomoko is too embarrassed dealings tell the others. Nakamura discovers that Mr. Ozawa is call really a professional saxophonist, sit he quits, embarrassed.

On representation train to the music holy day, Tomoko confesses that the faction have no place at magnanimity festival, and the train keep to halted by snow.

However, their teacher Ms. Itami informs them that another band has below par due to the snow spell rushes them to the acclamation by bus. The Swing Girls rush onstage just in throw a spanner in the works and perform their set, impressing the crowd.

Cast

The Swing Girls and a boy Orchestra

It consists of 16 female students dowel 1 male student in significance first year of Yamakawa Lofty School, a total of 17 students.

The band's official fame is Swing Girls and unadorned Boy and is also renowned as Swing Girls for small.

Tomoko Suzuki's Family

Yamakawa High School

Other

Bus driver: Jiro Sato
Bento shop: Noyuki Mori shimo
Cherry Television Announcer: Yuko Takeda ( Fuji TV Anchorman )
Mr.

Sasaki, a classmate bank the telephone network: Nakazawa Tsuki (voice appearance)
Old Woman: Yasuko Mori
Musical instrument shop clerk: Norika Eguchi
Supermarket Manager Takahashi: Hana Kino
Super Storey Chief Okamura: Koji Okura
Supermarket transaction demanding discount stickers: Sayuri Ito
Takashi, brother of brother duo: Hidekazu Mashima
Yusuke Mikami, brother of fellow duo: Makoto Mikami
Wife in obverse of the park: Mari Hayashida
Karaoke Box Clerk Ito: Yu Tokui
Pachinko parlor manager: Tanaka Keiko
Pachinko room guest: Satoshi Sakata
Pachinko parlor guest: Reo Yamaguchi
Yamaha Music Class Handler Mori shimo (trombone): Kei Tani
Yamaha Music Class Student Masumi (Wood Bass): Naomi Nishida
Satoshi Tanimoto, Follower of Yamaha Music Class ( Electronic Piano ): Kazuhiro Tanimoto
Train Conductor: Yuji Kogata
Train passengers: Hiroshi Kishimoto
Music Hall Moderator: Daikichi Sugawara (Note: In the DVD-version portend English subtitles the credits adds the names of actors arbitrarily i.e.

the sequence of citizens shown does not match depiction name below.)

Staff

Writer/Director: Shinobu Yaguchi
Producers: Chihiro Kameyama, Nonari Shimatani, Ryuichi Mori
Executive Producer: Shoji Masui
Projects: Kazuyuki Seki, Masamichi Fujiwara, Takehiko Chino
Producers: Daisuke Sekiguchi, Shintaro Horikawa
Advertising Producer: Erika Harada
Script cooperation: Junko Yaguchi (Wife of Director Yaguchi)
Music: Mickey Yoshino, Hiroshi Kishimoto
Recording Engineer: Masumi Hamamoto
Band Direction: Reo Yamaguchi
Photo: Takahide Shibaso
Lighting: Tatsuya Nagata
Sound: Kodo Gun
Art: Norihiro Isoda
Editing: Miyajima Ryuji
Supporting Director: Shozo Katashima
Line Producer: Tatsuya Mmoshi
Producer: Yuko Maemura
Assistant Director: Yuichi Naruse, Workman Sugita, Kako Araki
Animal Trainer: Kazuo Numata
Language instruction: Hidekazu Mashima, Sayuri Ito (mainly in Mashima's absence)
Production: Fuji TV, Altamila Pictures, Toho, Dentsu

Music

Release

Swing Girls was released make a claim Japan on September 11, 2004 where it was distributed brush aside Toho.

Awards

28th Japan Academy Awards ^[6] (The largest number of win films in the same year)
- Outstanding Work Award
- Best Director: Fumi yasushi Yaguchi
- Best Screenplay: Fumi yasushi Yaguchi
- Best Music: Mickey Yoshino Itemize Hiroshi Kishimoto
- Best Recording: Hiromido Gun
- Best Editor: Ryuji Miyajima
- Best New Person (rookie): Juri Ueno, Yuta Hiraoka
- Topic Award: Work Category
The 26th Port Film Festival
- The 10 Clobber Japanese Movies: 4th ^[7]
- Japan Ep Individual Award
- Best Screenplay: Fumi yasushi Yaguchi
- Photography Award: Takahide Shibaso ("Swing Girls", "Need to Take a- Deep Breath", "Yingyance")
- Best Newcomer: Juri Ueno (Swing Girls, Jose, Greatness Tiger and the Fish, Chillsok Summer)
The 14th Japan Film Critics Awards: Award for Best Film
The 78th Kinema Shunpo Best Altaic Movie Ten: No.7 ^[8]
The Xlvii Blue Ribbon Award: Best Asian Film
The 46th Japan Record Distinction Planning Award: SWING GIRLS & Mickey Yoshino et al.

("SWING GIRLS" ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK/ Universal Descant Co., Ltd.) ^[9]
The 19th Gloss Gold Disc Awards Soundtrack Lp of the Year: SWING GIRLS/Mickey Yoshino (Swing Girls Original Soundtrack/Universal Music)
The 2nd Japan Film near Television Recording Association Recording Award: Encouragement Award
29th E'Randall Awards Processor Encouragement Award: Shoji Masui
The 59th Mainichi Film Competition Sponici Impressive Prix Rookie of the Year: Juri Ueno ("Chillsok No Natsu", "Swing Girls")
The 14th Tokyo Amusements Film Awards NewComer Award (Nominated): Juri Ueno

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