Love & Pop

Nan
1h 52m
1998
7.865 /10 (78)

Schoolgirls by day... Call girls by night...

Overview

Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an expensive ring.

Country : Japan
Genre : Drama
Languages : 日本語
Released Date: 1998-01-10

Top Billed Cast

Asumi Miwa

Hiromi Yoshii

Kirari

Chisa Noda

Hirono Kudo

Nao Yokoi

Yukie Nakama

Chieko Takamori

Mitsuru Hirata

Kakegawa

Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Yoshimura

Moro Morooka

Yazaki

Toru Tezuka

Uehara

Ikkei Watanabe

Kobayashi

Tadanobu Asano

Captain XX

Naomi Kawase

Woman speaking to Hiromi (voice)

Akira Ishida

Yoshio

Kotono Mitsuishi

Radio Host (voice)

Megumi Hayashibara

Answering Machine (voice)

Taiju Okayasu

Odagiri

Ritsuko Shimada

Aoki

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