6.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Kamikaze Girls (2004)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 6.5
Overview
Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France. However, when punk girl and self-styled 'Yanki' Ichiko comes calling, her days as 'ordinary' are most certainly numbered...
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Neutral
Christianity: Positive
Overview
Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France. However, when punk girl and self-styled 'Yanki' Ichiko comes calling, her days as 'ordinary' are most certainly numbered...
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film's central themes of individual self-expression, unconventional friendship, and personal growth are largely apolitical, focusing on character development and interpersonal relationships rather than promoting or critiquing specific political ideologies.
Kamikaze Girls is a Japanese film with a cast that reflects its setting and cultural context. The narrative centers on the friendship and personal growth of two young Japanese women, without explicitly engaging with or critiquing traditional Western identities or broader DEI themes as defined by the evaluation criteria.
Secondary
Kamikaze Girls features a minor subplot where a former bosozoku leader, Akemi, is in a same-sex relationship. This is presented factually and without judgment, serving as a plot point for another character's development. The portrayal is incidental, neither strongly affirming nor problematic.
The film portrays Momoko's grandmother as a devout Christian, whose faith is a source of comfort and tradition, presented respectfully as part of her character. The narrative does not critique or condemn Christianity, even when other characters' actions briefly intersect with it.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Kamikaze Girls is a direct adaptation of Novala Takemoto's novel. All main and supporting characters maintain the same gender as established in the original source material, with no instances of a character's gender being altered for the film.
The film "Kamikaze Girls" is a Japanese production based on a Japanese novel, featuring Japanese characters portrayed by Japanese actors. There are no instances where a character canonically established as one race in the source material is portrayed on screen as a different race.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.2
7.0
Critic Ratings
6.2
5.6
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