Kamikaze Girls(下妻物語)

Village Voice by

If you value plausibility in movies, skip Kamikaze Girls; this is the sort of picture where getting run over by a truck gives a character gorgeous hair instead of a broken hip.

L.A. Weekly by Chuck Wilson

For this viewer, the climactic scooter-gang rumble, heavy on plot twists and empowerment speeches, felt eternal, but for many, the happy silliness of the film's first half should carry the day.

Variety by Derek Elley

Wears out its welcome at 100 minutes, but could find an audience in the West as a latenight attraction at gay fests.

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

A charmingly loony tale of two young loners who form an unlikely bond, this droll Japanese import puts the predictable banality of most Hollywood teen flicks to shame.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

But it's all done with such high style and whizzes along at such an exhausting pace that you probably won't have enough time to notice how little you care.

The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

The yummy Japanese confection Kamikaze Girls deserves both a better title and an audience to go with it.

Entertainment Weekly by Scott Brown

For the Western viewer, the cultural divide acts as a saccharine filter, and Kamikaze, a cult hit in Japan, becomes a mesmerizing lesson in otherness.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

What Kamikaze Girls doesn't have is a plot. As nice as the film looks, it soon grows tiresome -- though I could listen to the Johann Strauss II soundtrack forever.