Swing Girls

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
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • September 11, 2004 (2004-09-11) (Japan)
Running time
105 minutes[1]
CountryJapan
Budget¥ 500 millions
Box office$18.45 million[3]

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]

  1. ^ a b c d e f 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)