Movie: Fantastic Girls
Romaji: Deeree Garuzu
Japanese: でーれーガールズ
Director: Akiko Ohku
Writer: Maha Harada (novel), Takashi Minamoto
Producer: Yasuhiko Hattori, Yutaka Niimura, Yuna Shiraishi
Cinematographer: Natsuyo Nakamura
Release Date: February 21, 2015
Runtime: 118 min.
Genre: Women / Past & Present
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Plot
In 1980, Ayuko (Mio Yuki) 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 (Rika Adachi), 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 (Yuri Shirahane) is now a manga artist and comes back to Okayama to give a lecture at her former high school. There, Ayuko meets Takemi (Kei Aran) who is now a teacher.
Notes
Based on the novel "Dere Garuzu" by Maha Harada (published August, 2011 by Shodensha).
Filming begins September, 2014 in Okayama, Japan.
Cast
Mio Yuki as Ayuko Sasaoka (1980s)
Rika Adachi as Takemi Akimoto (1980s)
Yuri Shirahane as Ayuko Sasaoka (adult)
Kei Aran as Takemi Akimoto (adult)
Kenta Suga as Jun Suzuki
Masato Yano as Hideho
Misaki Momose as Mizuno Sasayama
Natsumi Ishizaki as Chiaki Nakano
Kae Sugiura as Atsuko Naito
Chika Yamane as girl
Tomoya Maeno as Yusai Arakawa
Mitsuko Oka as Tsuneko Ogiwara
Masahiro Komoto as Beibi Amihama
Toshie Negishi as Misao Tsukumo