Swing Girls

Sep 11, 2004

1h 45m

★ 7.8

Girls meet Jazz!!!

Overview

A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the school's brass band.

Genres

Comedy

Music

Production Companies

Altamira Pictures

dentsu

Fuji Television Network

TOHO

Swing Girls Trailers

Cast

Tomoko Suzuki

Juri Ueno

Takuo Nakamura

Yuta Hiraoka

Yoshie Saito

Shihori Kanjiya

Kaori Sekiguchi

Yuika Motokariya

Naomi Tanaka

Yukari Toyoshima

Tadahiko Ozawa

Naoto Takenaka

Reiko Shimoda

Nagisa Abe

Musical Instruments Shop Assistant

Noriko Eguchi

Supermarket Manager

Hana Kino

Yasumi Suzuki

Fumiyo Kohinata

Yuka Yamamoto

Fumiko Mizuta

Yumiko Shimizu

Madoka Matsuda

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