Love & Pop (1998) on Netflix
In Tokyo, high schooler Hiromi Yoshii and her friends go on paid dates with older men. Hiromi needs money fast for a topaz ring she has found on sale.
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Plot summary
Hiromi Yoshii is a Tokyo high school girl who feels she has no direction, unlike her friends: Nao, who is into computers; Chieko, who is more mature; and Chisa, who plans to quit school and dance professionally. All four go out with older men for payment. In Shibuya, Hiromi joins Nao and Chieko, and with a cellphone Nao has borrowed from a man named Kobayashi, the three record messages for a dating service saying they want to meet men that day. After shopping for swimwear with Chisa, Hiromi spots a topaz ring on sale that she cannot afford and decides to raise the money before the shop closes. The four go to a karaoke room with an older man who gives them money in return for chewing grapes for him, and split the cash.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Love & Pop (1998)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Love & Pop was shot with five video cameras running simultaneously, gathering 160 hours of footage for a 110-minute film, and was the first Japanese film produced entirely digitally.
- Because video tape was cheap and director Hideaki Anno could borrow cameras from friends, he sometimes ran six cameras at once; one scene could take up to 30 hours and dozens of takes.
- The film was shot almost entirely on hand-held digital cameras and used unorthodox camera work, mounting cameras in many positions, including on a model train riding on tracks.
- The final script was written in advance, yet the cast still received daily script changes, and sometimes the script itself did not even say how a scene would be filmed.
