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An Adolescent(少女〜AN ADOLESCENT)

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Japan · 2001
Rated R · 2h 12m
Director Eiji Okuda
Starring Mayu Ozawa, Eiji Okuda, Mari Natsuki, Hideo Murota
Genre Drama

Tomokawa, a bored cop, is approached by a fifteen-year-old girl named Yoko who offers him a round of illicit sex in exchange for cash. Though he demurs, their paths cross again, and soon a relationship of sorts forms. He then discovers - much to his surprise - that Yoko is the daughter of an old flame from the past.

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60

Village Voice by

Although the movie drags, Okuda (who also directed) makes for a gloriously bad lieutenant, while Ozawa is enjoyably discomfiting in her unblushing carnality.

50

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Suicide, child molestation, corruption, insanity and the faintest implication of incest are wound around the film's suggestion that the cure for modern-day alienation and anomie lies in embracing traditional Japanese culture, like ritual tattooing.

70

L.A. Weekly by Mark Olsen

Okuda creates that slightly surreal atmosphere of ghost-town emptiness that will be familiar to fans of Takeshi Miike, but he infuses it with a romantic's sense of deep yearning.

50

The A.V. Club by Tasha Robinson

The problem is that both as a director and as an actor, Okuda never makes a particularly convincing case either for sex or for deeper commitment as a road away from the abyss.

50

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

Okuda's debut behind the camera, Shoujyo, is a dirty old man's delight: schoolgirls galore in short skirts or, in Yoko's case, nothing at all. That may be enough for some viewers, but not for those who insist on a story that gives substance to its characters.

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