A 2004 Japanese comedy directed by Shinobu Yaguchi that has a group of high school girls (Juri Ueno, Yuta Hiraoka, Shihori Kanjiya, Yuika Motokariya, Masae Nemoto, and Chise Nakamura) forming a big band to avoid math summer school.
The movie also stars Fumiyo Kohinata, Erika Watanabe, Rina Kanako, Mutsuko Sakura, Naoto Takenaka, Miho Shiraishi, and Issei Takahashi.
It was released released on September 11, 2004.
Tropes for the film:
- Crowd Song: 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.
- Insistent Terminology: Swing Girls (and a boy)
- Karaoke Box: The group start out by playing (terribly) in one of these.
- There Are Two Kinds of People in the World: 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.
