Cherry Girl | |
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Directed by | Shuta Takahata |
Produced by | Max Matsuura Chiba Ryuhei Araki Takashi Hayashi Shinji Nagata Yoshihisa |
Written by | Osamu Suzuki |
Starring |
Kumi Koda MEGUMI Yuko Ito |
Music by | Kumi Koda |
Distributed by |
Rhythm Zone Avex Entertainment |
Release date
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December 20, 2006 (Japan) |
Language | Japanese |
Cherry Girl is a Japanese action/drama film featuring Japanese singer-songwriter Kumi Koda and actresses MEGUMI and Yuko Ito. It was directed by Shuta Takahata (The Hotel Venus) and is written by Osamu Suzuki (Love Com, Hito Ni Yasashiku and smaSTATION). The film was scored by Koda Kumi's studio album Black Cherry and was featured on the second DVD of the album.
The film was inspired by Charlie's Angels, which could be seen with its action scenes and with the three women given orders via telephone.
Kumi Koda, the main focus of the film, released a music video centered around the film's theme on her Cherry Girl/Unmei single.
Cherry Girl centers around three female bartenders, who use the bar to run a private detective agency. Kumi (Kumi Koda), Meg (MEGUMI) and Yu (Yuko Ito) play agents who work as private investigators for an unseen man named Goro (Goro Inagaki). He contacts the three women via Vodafone cell phone to give them job orders.
The film opens with a bar scene of the women serving the customers, alongside a conversation Kumi, Yu and Meg are having, talking about past love interests. Kumi tells them that during one of her relationships, she had found a hair in the man's bed, which did not belong to her and broke up with the man a week later. The scene is played back-to-back with the bar scene and an action scene of the trio. Meg alerts the other two of a suspicious character entering the bar, who they find had a pocket knife.