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Japanese Girls Never Die (アズミ・ハルコは行方不明) is a 2016 Japanese comedy film directed by Daigo Matsui. It critiques sexism in Japan through the story of a young woman. Cast. Yū Aoi - Haruko Azumi; Mitsuki Takahata - Aina; Taiga - Yukio; Shono Hayama - Manabu; Huey Ishizaki - Yuji Soga; Akiko Kikuchi; References
Critics reviews. Haruko Azumi is a 28-years-old woman. She is a single and works at an office. One day, she suddenly disappears on a typical street with retail stores lined up. After her disappearance, her missing person poster is spread across the city.
The film Japanese Girls Never Die ( Azumi Haruko wa yukue fumei, A.K.A Azumi Haruko is Missing, 2016) by Matsui Daigo was undoubtedly one of them. As the original title indicates, the film focuses on the disappearance of Azumi Haruko (Aoi Yu), a 27 years old woman who lives in a suburban city and shares her house with her mother, father and ...
Katie Rife AV Club Japanese Girls Never Die is an impressionistic, kaleidoscopic portrait of life as a woman in modern-day Japan, with a little bit of art-world satire to boot.
Japanese girls never die, they just go missing. 3 storylines intertwined in a non-linear anarchic exhibit of the patriarchal Japanese society. A Sion Sono-esque group of high school girls attacking lonely men at night in a neon dazed flamboyance. 2 friends, inspired from a radical book, set off to paint their town in trailblazing graffiti using the stencil of a missing poster of Haruko Azumi.
In short, Japanese Girls Never Die presents a medley of situations, perspectives and outcomes facing its titular group, as splintered across different age ranges, time frames, and slivers of ...
Daigo Matsui. Director. Mariko Yamauchi. Novel. Misaki Setoyama. Screenplay. While a gang of high school girls randomly beats lone men at night, the photo of a young woman who has been declared missing is used to design a template which is painted on each wall of a small suburban town.
