
Love & Pop
- Fri, Feb 28
- Sun, Mar 2
- Mon, Mar 3
- Tue, Mar 4
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Hideaki Anno Run Time: 112 min. Release Year: 1998 Language: Japanese
Starring: Asumi Miwa, Hirono Kudo, Kirari, Mitsuru Hirata, Yukie Nakama
Kick off March with us as we present brand new 2K restoration screenings of the rarely-screened Japanese film Love & Pop!
July 1997. Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends spend the summer going on dates with older men for money. Armed with only a cellphone, Hiromi sets out to date her way to ¥128,000 in order to purchase an expensive topaz ring before the mall closes for the day.
Based on the novel by Ryū Murakami, Love & Pop is the live action feature debut from Hideaki Anno, creator of Neon Genesis Evangelion, one of the most celebrated anime series of all time. The film is radical in its stylistic approach to teenage ennui, taking to the seedy streets of Shibuya with handheld digicams, distorted lenses, and a barrage of unconventional camera angles. Criminally underseen for years, Love & Pop remains a singular portrait of Japanese youth coming of age in the approach to the 21st century.
All screenings will be presented the original Japanese language with English subtitles.