Love & Pop

Love & Pop

Schoolgirls by day... Call girls by night...

1998112 min7.7 / 10

An experimental, formally inventive examination of adolescent vulnerability and commodification in contemporary Tokyo, told through fragmented, surreal visual language.

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.

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