11 Sep 2004
Swing Girls
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.
Adrift in Tokyo
A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.
Top Billed Cast
オダギリジョー Fumiya Takemura
三浦友和 Aiichiro Fukuhara
小泉今日子 Makiko
吉高由里子 Fufumi
麻生久美子 Mikaduki Shizuka
ふせえり Sendai
平岩紙 Naomi
広田レオナ Kaburagi
石原良純 Young Man of Jelly Shop
石井苗子 Tatako
岩松了 Kunimatsu
松重豊 Tomobe
宮田早苗 Fukuhara's Wife
笹野高史 Middle-aged Matmaker
津村鷹志 Owner of Watch Shop
鷲尾真知子 Midde-aged Woman of Jelly Shop
岸部一徳 Ittoku Kishibe
横山あきお Plaster Mask
Maya Murasaki Naomi
風見章子 Grandmother
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