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Young Lady Detectives: Heart Beat!

1987 · 75 min

A scrappy, sleazy plunge into Tokyo's underworld that keeps you off-balance, equal parts lurid thrills and sour unease.

Directed by
Naosuke Kurosawa
Genres
Drama, Crime
Starring
Michiko Nishiwaki, Takashi Naito, Yûko Mizushima
Overview
Two female university students open a detective agency and use their feminine charms to find a missing girl for a client. But they soon get in over their heads as the trail leads them to the seedy underworld of massage parlors and criminal gangs.

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Directed by
Naosuke Kurosawa
Genres
Drama, Crime
Starring
Michiko Nishiwaki, Takashi Naito, Yûko Mizushima
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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • crime
  • corruption
  • deception
  • exploration
  • friendship
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror2
Humour4
Realism8
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

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Genres
drama, crime
Directed by
Naosuke Kurosawa
Written by
Hiroshi Kashiwabara
Starring
Michiko Nishiwaki, Takashi Naito, Yûko Mizushima, Tomomi Segawa, Sakae Umezu, Kurumi Jōgenji, Sadahiro Aoshima, Mie Kai
Runtime
75 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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