Love & Pop (1998)

Original title

ラブ&ポップ

Directed by

Hideaki Anno

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 88 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage girl navigates the pressures of consumer culture and her own desires in Tokyo. She gets involved with a group of older men as she tries to raise money for a pair of expensive earrings.

experimentalunsettlingvisually chaoticintimaterawmelancholicdisorientingemotional

What happens

Love & Pop (ラブ&ポップ, Rabu ando 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. The film was shot almost entirely on hand-held digital cameras and contains unorthodox 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. An English-language DVD was released in 2004 by Kino on Video. In 2025, GKIDS announced that they would hold movie screenings for a 2K restoration of the film in North America. The film was first screened at the IFC Center in New York City on February 21, 2025 and then at the American Cinematheque Los Feliz theater on February 23, 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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