The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl

Kiyoshi Kurosawa second feature and first studio assignment, an almost pinku, almost musical Godardian anthropological study on dissafected Japanese youth around 1985. The mix of sorrow and playfulness is very rewarding if one decides to accept the film's very odd rhythms.…

Filipe Furtado

Insult to Godard to call this Godardian. I've found that even the Godard films I don't especially care for have something real to say; this doesn't. "Soup" is right. Dire, empty experiment from the young Kiyoshi Kurosawa. I'd call it an attempt at gentrifying pink film but…

Zynab

singular energy that feels as much like a pink films from the decade prior as it does more renegade outsider art like the French (or even German) new waves of the 60s/70s — very playful, weird, sexy and funny (not usually things I think of regarding Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s work…

Justin LaLiberty

I went in thinking this would be a sweet coming-of-age story of a schoolgirl looking for her crush in the nostalgic spring of 1985. Stupid me. It’s a disarrayed set of scenes—of shame and misplaced love, of absurd club meetings and random musical numbers, and above all, of…

edil

Kiyoshi Kurosaw sure loves the early playful Godard! But now with extra bare breasts.

Justin Decloux

kiyoshi kurosawa made a pinku musical? wtaf

meyi

To be honest, the film was good. But the acting from almost everyone was pretty poor, ranging from okay to bad, unfortunately. It all felt very artificial and unemotional. Maybe that was intentional, I don't know, but it didn't quite fit the overall picture for me.…

MichailBetter

Kurosawa transforms a pinku assignment into a freewheeling, mid-career-Godardian freak-out. Venturing to a Tokyo university to track down her wayward boyfriend, country girl Aki finds instead so many lessons in “new liberal psychology,” musical theory, men’s fecklessness,…

jrhovind

Very early Kurosawa, however it’s really fun seeing how much he experiments with this. Who knew a pinku film would contain so much absurdism, Ozu hallway shots, musical numbers, and Godardian themes. Surprisingly fun watch!Kiyoshi Kurosawa Ranked

Evan