Movie

Love & Pop

1998 · 112 min

A disorienting, intimate plunge into a teenager's drifting life, with restless cameras and fractured images that mirror her unease.

Tagline: Schoolgirls by day... Call girls by night...
Overview: Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an expensive ring.
How it feels: Melancholic, tense, eerie and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Coming-of-age, identity, isolation, class
Content: Strong sexual content. Mild violence and language. No gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: coming-of-age
identity
isolation
class
sexuality
Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex strong