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Jan 9, 1998 · Love & Pop: Directed by Hideaki Anno. With Tadanobu Asano, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Megumi Hayashibara, Akira Ishida. A high school girl engages in compensated dating in order to buy an expensive ring before the day ends.
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- Drama
- Hideaki Anno
- 1998-01-09
Love & Pop (ラブ&ポップ, Rabu & Poppu) is a 1998 Japanese experimental coming-of-age film directed and co-written by Hideaki Anno, based on the novel Topaz II by Ryū Murakami. It was Anno's first live action feature-length film.
Jan 9, 1998 · Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai or "subsidized dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an expensive ring. Based on the novel TOPAZ II by Ryū Murakami.
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Novel. Akio Satsukawa. Screenplay. 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.
Jan 9, 1998 · The film follows four Japanese high school girls who engage in enjo kosai, or compensated dating. This is a practice in Japan where older businessmen pay teenage girls more commonly to simply spend time with them or rarely for prostitution. The movie is also a coming-of-age story.
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- Japan
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- Anno Hideaki
Jul 9, 2023 · Based on Ryu Murakami's story 'Topaz,' Hideaki Anno's 'Love & Pop' is an interesting, affecting movie that shines a spotlight on an uncomfortable aspect of Japanese society: the predilection among many for underage girls.
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.
