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Love & Pop
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.
Plot
Hiromi Yoshii is a high school girl living in Tokyo. She has three friends: Nao, who is interested in computers, Chieko, who is older and more mature, and Chisa, who plans to drop out of school to become a professional dancer. Hiromi feels that she lacks direction in comparison to her friends. All four routinely go out with older men in exchange for payment.
More details
| author | Akio Satsukawa Hideaki Anno |
|---|---|
| director | Hideaki Anno |
| editor | Hiroshi Okuda |
| events | enjo kōsai prostitution |
| genre | action |
| keywords | adult video captain eo cell phone date fall gay man go out with older men in exchange for payment high school girl karaoke love hotel meet older men phone call pornographic film shibuya shop stuffed animal walk |
| musicBy | Shinkichi Mitsumune |
| producer | Toshimichi Otsuki |
| productionCompany | Cine Bazar |
| publisher | Toei Company |
| recordedAt | Shibuya-ku |
| theme | avant-garde and experimental coming-of-age japanese teen |