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* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: A jock-ish minor character seems to start all his sentences this way, leaving the protagonists on the negative end, of course. It isn't until the swing band's penultimate performance that he changes his mind.
* TohokuRegionalAccent: All the characters speak in the distinctive brogue of their native Yamagata prefecture, adding a distinctive Tohoku feel to the movie. Likely one of the more popular examples of the dialect in popular culture.

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* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: A jock-ish minor character seems to start all his sentences this way, leaving the protagonists on the negative end, of course. It isn't until the swing band's penultimate performance that he changes his mind.
* TohokuRegionalAccent: All the characters speak in the distinctive brogue of their native Yamagata prefecture, adding a distinctive Tohoku feel to the movie. Likely one of the more popular examples of the dialect in popular culture.
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* InsistentTerminology: Swing Girls (and a boy)
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* TokokuRegionalAccent: All the characters speak in the distinctive brogue of their native Yamagata prefecture, adding a distinctive Tohoku feel to the movie. Likely one of the more popular examples of the dialect in popular culture.

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* TokokuRegionalAccent: TohokuRegionalAccent: All the characters speak in the distinctive brogue of their native Yamagata prefecture, adding a distinctive Tohoku feel to the movie. Likely one of the more popular examples of the dialect in popular culture.
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A 2004 Japanese comedy directed by Creator/ShinobuYaguchi that has a group of high school girls (Creator/JuriUeno, Creator/YutaHiraoka, Creator/ShihoriKanjiya, Creator/YuikaMotokariya, Creator/MasaeNemoto, and Creator/ChiseNakamura) forming a big band to avoid math summer school.

The movie also stars Creator/FumiyoKohinata, Creator/ErikaWatanabe, Creator/RinaKanako, Creator/MutsukoSakura, Creator/NaotoTakenaka, Creator/MihoShiraishi, and Creator/IsseiTakahashi.

It was released released on September 11, 2004.

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!Tropes for the film:
* CrowdSong: Variation. The movie has a part where the remnants of a jazz band, after splitting up due to many girls not wishing to continue being part of a band, goes out and plays in front of a store. The girls who split up to live a partying life see them and are inspired to rejoin, at which point they go off to sell their expensive clothing and accessories, and use the money to buy musical instruments, at which point they rejoin those who were playing and play perfectly in sync with the others, despite not having practiced at all.
* KaraokeBox: The group start out by playing ([[DreadfulMusician terribly]]) in one of these.
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: A jock-ish minor character seems to start all his sentences this way, leaving the protagonists on the negative end, of course. It isn't until the swing band's penultimate performance that he changes his mind.
* TokokuRegionalAccent: All the characters speak in the distinctive brogue of their native Yamagata prefecture, adding a distinctive Tohoku feel to the movie. Likely one of the more popular examples of the dialect in popular culture.

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