Love & Pop

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Love & Pop
Love & Pop (1998) theatrical release poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byHideaki Anno
Written byAkio Satsukawa
Based onTopaz II
by Ryū Murakami
Produced byToshimichi Otsuki
Starring
CinematographyTakahide Shibanushi
Edited byHiroshi Okuda
Music byShinkichi Mitsumune
Distributed byToei Company
Release date
January 9, 1998
Running time
  • 110 minutes (theatrical version)
  • 112 minutes (SR-Ban version)
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Love & Pop (ラブ&ポップ, Rabu & Poppu) is a 1998 Japanese experimental film directed 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 some very unusual 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.

An official English DVD was released in 2004 by Kino on Video.

Plot[]

The film follows four Japanese high school girls who engage in enjo-kōsai, or compensated dating. This is a practice in Japan where older businessmen pay teenage girls more commonly to simply spend time with them, or for prostitution. The main character, Hiromi, does not have the direction in life that her friends already have. Hiromi's friends were going to buy her a ring, but Hiromi refuses to accept their offer because she does not want her friends to be jealous. Hiromi goes on dates by herself to get money for the ring. Soon, she gets in over her head. Hiromi falls too far into the world of enjo-kōsai as she tries to hold on to a "friends forever" vision of the past.

Personnel[]

Cast[]

DVD variations[]

An SR-Ban version was released in Japan on 24 July 2003. Apparently, it is the director's cut, has two minutes of extra footage and has been transferred directly from the original tape, whilst the American and Japanese DVDs appear to come from a different source. The American version appears to be the original interlaced version, whilst the Japanese, non-director's cut, appears to have been de-interlaced and given the impression of a pseudo-progressive style. Both non-director's cuts have more subdued colors, whilst the director's cut is more vivid and the motion is fluid.[1] This fluidity in motion is due to the 30 fps frame rate, compared to the normal 24 fps frame rates on the non SR-Ban DVDs.[citation needed]

References[]

  1. ^ "Love & Pop Dvd Comparisons".

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