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Swing Girls is a japonais film of genre Comedy directed by Shinobu Yaguchi released in USA on 11 november 2004 with Juri Ueno
Swing Girls (2004)
Suwingu Gāruzu
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Add to a movie listSwing Girls (スウィングガールズ, Suwingu Gāruzu) is a Japanese 2004 comedy film directed and co-written by Shinobu Yaguchi, about a group of high school girls who form a big band. The cast includes Yūta Hiraoka, Juri Ueno, Shihori Kanjiya, Yuika Motokariya and Yukari Toyashima. The film ranked 8th at the Japanese box office in 2004, and won seven prizes at the 2005 Japanese Academy Awards, including "Most Popular Film" and "Newcomer of the Year" awards for Yūta Hiraoka and Juri Ueno.
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On a hot summer's day, 13 schoolgirls are bored in a remedial math class. One girl, Tomoko, watches the school's brass band leave to perform at a baseball game, but they have forgotten their bento lunches. Tomoko and the other girls persuade their teacher, Mr Ozawa, to let them deliver the lunches. On the train, Tomoko eats a lunch, and the girls fall asleep and miss their stop. By the time they deliver the lunches to the swing band, they have spoiled, and all 42 band members become sick. Only the cymbal player, Nakamura, whose lunch Tomoko ate, is unaffected.Actors
Juri Ueno
(Tomoko Suzuki)
Yūta Hiraoka
(Takuo Nakamura)
Yuika Motokariya
(Kaori Sekiguchi (Trombone))
Nagisa Abe
(Reiko Shimoda)
Noriko Eguchi
(Musical Instruments Shop Assistant)
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