Film

Fantastic Girls

2015 · 1h 59m · Comedy · Drama

IMDb

3.3

In 1980, Ayuko is a new transfer student in Okayama from Tokyo. She doesn't have any friends and relies on her boyfriend Hideo who is a college student. Ayuko likes to draw a romance manga of herself and her boyfriend. Ayuko's classmate, Takemi, becomes a huge fan of Ayuko's manga and they become close friends. Due to an incident though, they drift apart. 30 years later, Ayuko is now a manga artist and comes back to Okayama to give a lecture at her former high school. There, Ayuko meets Takemi who is now a teacher.

Rika Adachi

Takemi Akimoto (young)

Mio Yuki

Ayuko Sasaoka (young)

Yuri Shirahane

Ayuko Sasaoka (adult)

Aran Kei

Takemi Akimoto (adult)

Kenta Suga

Jun Suzuki

Masato Yano

Hideho

Misako Momose

Mizuno Sasayama

Toshie Negishi

Masahiro Komoto

Natsumi Ishizaki

Tomoya Maeno

Mitsuko Oka

Chika Yamane

Masao Ōmori

greengrocer (uncredited)

• Akiko OhkuDirector
• Takashi MinamotoWriter
• Maha HaradaNovel
• Yasuhiko HattoriProducer
• Koichiro FukushimaExecutive Producer
• Natsuyo NakamuraDirector of Photography
• Hiroyasu YanoOriginal Music Composer
• Hiroyuki YonedaEditor

Release date

February 21, 2015

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 59m

Genres

Comedy, Drama

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