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Love & Pop (ラブ&ポップ, Rabu & Poppu) is a 1998 Japanese experimental coming-of-age film directed by Hideaki Anno, based on the novel Topaz II by Ryū Murakami. It was Anno's first live action feature-length film. The film was shot almost entirely on hand-held digital cameras and contains some very unusual camera work, including many different mounted camera positions, such as on a model train riding on tracks. The film also flips from widescreen to fullscreen, distorts (with effects such as a fisheye lens), confuses, and makes use of overlays stacked in layers to convey the character's emotions.

Love & Pop
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Hideaki Anno
Screenplay by	Hideaki Anno Akio Satsukawa
Based on	Topaz II by Ryū Murakami
Produced by	Toshimichi Otsuki
Starring	Asumi Miwa Kirari Hirono Kudō Yukie Nakama
Cinematography	Takahide Shibanushi
Edited by	Hiroshi Okuda
Music by	Shinkichi Mitsumune
Distributed by	Toei Company
Release date	January 9, 1998
Running time	110 minutes (theatrical version) 112 minutes (SR-Ban version)
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

An official English DVD was released in 2004 by Kino on Video.

Plot

The film follows four Japanese high school girls who engage in enjo-kōsai, or compensated dating. This is a practice in Japan where older businessmen pay teenage girls more commonly to simply spend time with them, or for prostitution. The main character, Hiromi, does not have the direction in life that her friends already have. Hiromi's friends were going to buy her a ring, but Hiromi refuses to accept their offer because she does not want her friends to be jealous. Hiromi goes on dates by herself to get money for the ring. Soon, she gets in over her head. Hiromi falls too far into the world of enjo-kōsai as she tries to hold on to a "friends forever" vision of the past.

Personnel

• Director: Hideaki Anno
• Original story: Ryū Murakami
• Script: Akio Satsukawa
• Effect: Ryota Matsumoto

Cast

• Asumi Miwa - Hiromi Yoshii (吉井 裕美, Yoshii Hiromi)
• Kirari - Chisa Noda (野田 知佐, Noda Chisa)
• Hirono Kudō - Nao Yokoi (横井 奈緒, Yokoi Nao)
• Yukie Nakama - Chieko Takahashi (高橋 千恵子, Takahashi Chieko)
• Mitsuru Hirata - Kagegawa
• Mitsuru Fukikoshi - Yoshimura
• Moro Morooka - Yazaki
• Tooru Tezuka - Uehara
• Ikkei Watanabe - Kobayashi
• Tadanobu Asano - Captain EO
• Kotono Mitsuishi - Radio DJ (voice)
• Akira Ishida - Yoshio (voice)
• Megumi Hayashibara - Telephone Dialing Voice
• Nana Okada - Hiromi's Mother
• Leo Morimoto - Hiromi's Father

DVD variations

An SR-Ban version was released in Japan on 24 July 2003. Apparently, it is the director's cut, has two minutes of extra footage and has been transferred directly from the original tape, whilst the American and Japanese DVDs appear to come from a different source. The American version appears to be the original interlaced version, whilst the Japanese, non-director's cut, appears to have been de-interlaced and given the impression of a pseudo-progressive style. Both non-director's cuts have more subdued colors, whilst the director's cut is more vivid and the motion is fluid.[1] This fluidity in motion is due to the 60 fps high frame rate, compared to the normal 24 fps frame rates on the non SR-Ban DVDs.^{[citation needed]}

References

External links

• Love & Pop at IMDb
• Love & Pop at Kino Video
• Into at Gainax
• Cast list at Gainax

На других языках

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- [en] Love & Pop

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[ru] Любовь и попса

«Любовь и попса» (яп. ラブ&ポップ) — японская молодёжная драма Хидэаки Анно 1998 года. Первый художественный фильм Хидэаки Анно, который до этого занимался съёмками аниме. Фильм основан на романе Рю Мураками «Топаз II». По роману «Топаз I» Рю Мураками ранее сам снял фильм «Токийский декаданс»[1].

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