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Hula Girls

They danced their way into the hearts of a nation.

Set in the mid 1960s as Japan started industrialising in a big way, things were going badly in a coal mining village. The townspeople decided to build Japan's first Hawaiian Village as a tourist trap to save the town. However any decent Hawaiian village needs dancing Hula girls. So they hired a dance instructor from Tokyo, and he soon had the shy Japanese girls coming out of their shells as they learned to do the Hula. Based on a true story, the village became an inspiration to the rest of Japan. In Japanese with English subtitles.

107 minutes, Parental Guidance (Language, Violence)
Comedy, On the art circuit

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Credits
Cast	Yasuko Matsuyuki, Etsushi Toyokawa, Yû Aoi, Shizuyo Yamazaki, Shoko Ikeza, Eri Tokunaga
Director	Sang-il Lee
Screenplay	Sang-il Lee, Saisuke Habara
Music	Jake Shimoabukuro
Cinematography	Hideo Yamamoto
Editing	Tsuyoshi Imai
Sound formats	Dolby Digital
Soundtrack	Not available
Made in	2006
Produced by	Black Diamonds, Cine Quanon
SA Distributor	Ster-Kinekor

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FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Drama
Language	Some, moderate
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Some, moderate
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy
Drug abuse
Comments	Japanese film with some pathos and mildly disturbing moments but strongly positive image and ethos.
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Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
South African Media
Cape Argus/The StarDiane de Beer	5
Die BurgerMariana Malan	10
Cape TimesFrank Scheck	10
iAfrica.comLauren Scholtz	15
Mail & GuardianShaun de Waal	10
The CitizenBruce Dennill	14
Sunday TimesBarry Ronge	15
24.comGugu Mkhabela	5
International Media
Metacritic.com5 critics	11
RottenTomatoes.com14 critics	11
RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer	10
Internet (IMDB)287 Netizens	14

Average .. 54%	10

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