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Swing Girls (スウィングガールズ, Suwingu Gāruzu) is a Japanese 2004 teen comedy film directed and co-written by Shinobu Yaguchi. The plot follows a group of inept high school girls who form a big band. The cast includes Juri Ueno, Yuta Hiraoka, Shihori Kanjiya, Yuika Motokariya and Yukari Toyashima.[4] The film ranked 8th at the Japanese box office in 2004, and won seven prizes at 28th Japan Academy Prize, including "Most Popular Film" and "Newcomer of the Year" for Yuta Hiraoka and Juri Ueno.[5]

Swing Girls
Japaneseスウィングガールズ
Directed byShinobu Yaguchi
Screenplay byShinobu Yaguchi[1]
Based onTateshina High School Jazz Club and Takasago High School Big Friendly Jazz Orchestra[2]
Produced by
  • Shintaro Horikawa
  • Daisuke Sekiguchi[1]
Starring
CinematographyTakahide Shibanushi[1]
Music by
  • Hiroshi Kishimoto
  • Micky Yoshino[1]
Production
companies
  • Altamira Pictures
  • DENTSU Music and Entertainment
  • Fuji Television Network[1]
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • September 11, 2004 (2004-09-11) (Japan)
Running time
105 minutes[1]
CountryJapan
Box office$18.45 million[3]

Plot


A class of schoolgirls are bored during their summer make-up class. When the school brass band leaves to perform at a baseball game without their bento lunches, Tomoko and the other girls persuade their math teacher, Mr. Ozawa, to let them deliver the lunches. On the train, the girls fall asleep after eating one of the lunches and miss their stop. They walk back to deliver the lunches to the band, but they have spoiled in the summer heat, and all but their cymbal player, Takuo Nakamura, who missed out on his meal, becomes sick.

Takuo holds an audition for band replacements to play at an upcoming baseball game. Only three girls audition: two former members of a punk band, and the shy Kaori Sekiguchi. Takuo confronts the other girls, threatening to turn them in for the food poisoning in if they do not join. The girls have no musical experience and clown around with their instruments, except for Kaori. As they are several members short of a brass band, Takuo decides to turn the group into a big band and perform swing jazz.

The girls train hard for the performance. Kaori's talent inspires the others, and they come to enjoy playing. However, on the day before the game, just as the girls have become confident, the brass band members recover and the girls are devastated.

As the new school year begins, Tomoko buys a saxophone and discovers Takuo playing his keyboard. The members of the swing band gather at school and decide to buy their own instruments. The girls get supermarket jobs to earn money, but Tomoko and several others lose their wages when a cooking demonstration gets out of hand, triggering the store's fire sprinkler system. The remaining girls spend a day picking matsutake mushrooms, but are attacked by a boar; they kill it and claim reward money, as the boar had been destroying crops. With the money, the girls buy cheap damaged instruments, and the two rockers convince their ex-boyfriends, who operate a wrecking yard, to repair them.

The group, now dubbed Swing Girls, play their first public show; the performance goes badly, but Kaori is given advice by an anonymous jazz fan. When the group approach him, he runs away. They chase him to his home and discover that he is Mr. Ozawa, who possesses an extensive collection of jazz records. Assuming he is an expert saxophonist player, they convince him to lead the band.

The band's skills improve and they record an audition tape for a music festival. They leave Tomoko in charge of the tape, but she sends it too late and the band is rejected. Tomoko is too embarrassed to tell the others. Nakamura discovers that Mr. Ozawa is not really a professional saxophonist, and he quits, embarrassed.

On the train to the music festival, Tomoko confesses that the band have no place at the festival, and the train is halted by snow. However, their teacher Ms. Itami informs them that another band has cancelled due to the snow and rushes them to the festival by bus. The Swing Girls rush onstage just in time and perform their set, impressing the crowd.


Cast


Swing Girls is typical 17-piece big band
Swing Girls is typical 17-piece big band

The Swing Girls and a boy Orchestra


It consists of 16 female students and 1 male student in the first year of Yamakawa High School, a total of 17 students. The band's official name is Swing Girls and a Boy and is also known as Swing Girls for short.


Toyko Suzuki (family of Toyako Suzuki)



Yamakawa High School



Other



Staff



Music



Release


Swing Girls was released in Japan on September 11, 2004 where it was distributed by Toho.[1]


Awards



Footnotes


References
  1. Galbraith IV 2008, p. 433-434.
  2. "'Swing Girls' swing U.S. 'sakura' gig". Japan Times. 14 March 2008. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
  3. "Swing Girls". Boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved 2012-09-15.
  4. Japanese Film Fest in Pokhara and Ktm - The Kathmandu Post
  5. *NOTICE: Change of Event Schedule* J-Film Series February 2008 - Presented by Japan Information & Culture Center (JICC), Embassy of Japan and Japan Commerce Association of Washington DC (JCAW)
  6. https://www.japan-academy-prize.jp/prizes/?t=28
  7. "第２５回ヨコハマ映画祭 日本映画ベスト１０".
  8. "映画鑑賞記録サービス Kinenote｜キネマ旬報社".
  9. "活動〜日本レコード大賞〜【公益社団法人 日本作曲家協会】".

Bibliography


Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1461673743.




На других языках

- [en] Swing Girls

[ru] Swing Girls

Swing Girls (яп. スウィングガールズ сувингу га:рудзу) — японская музыкальная кинокомедия 2004 года, повествующая о становлении девчачьего школьного биг-бенда. Фильм занял 8-е место в японском бок-офисе 2004 года и завоевал 7 премий Японской киноакадемии. Фильм основан на реальной истории Tateshina High School Jazz Club (префектура Нагано).


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