03 Dec 1999
Sweet and Lowdown
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.
Swing Girls
Girls meet Jazz!!!
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.
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上野樹里 Tomoko Suzuki
平岡祐太 Takuo Nakamura
貫地谷しほり Yoshie Saito
本仮屋ユイカ Kaori Sekiguchi
豊島由佳梨 Naomi Tanaka
竹中直人 Tadahiko Ozawa
あべなぎさ Reiko Shimoda
江口のりこ Musical Instruments Shop Assistant
木野花 Supermarket Manager
小日向文世 Yasumi Suzuki
水田芙美子 Yuka Yamamoto
松田まどか Yumiko Shimizu
西田尚美 Music School Student
桜むつ子 Mie Suzuki
白石美帆 Yayoi Itami
高橋一生 School Brass Band Leader
宝井誠明 Teacher Kubota
田中要次 Pinball Parlour Manager
谷啓 Morishita
渡辺えり Sanae Suzuki
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