Swing Girls (and a boy)

bmwracer wrote:
That's the oboe player??

Yow. :)

Nice 'caps... Where'd they come from? I didn't see those in the closing credits...

They didn't come from the closing credits...they came from the "making of" video...now available here:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/mlnnlp

Sorry, no subtitles...but you'll get the idea for most of it...

Hey, racer ....remember in the juri thread when I told about the girls learning their instuments...this is the documentation...I think you'll appreciate the movie even more!

runpup wrote:They didn't come from the closing credits...they came from the "making of" video...now available here:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/mlnnlp

Sorry, no subtitles...but you'll get the idea for most of it...

Hey, racer ....remember in the juri thread when I told about the girls learning their instuments...this is the documentation...I think you'll appreciate the movie even more!

Excellent.

Thanks for the link. :victory:

Racer, just in case newpeople to this thread didn't catch the torrent link you posted in the Juri thread... post it here....we gotta get more people on the A-train!!!!

bmwracer wrote:Gomen, I'd post pics of the other actresses in Swing Girls, but I don't have any pics of them. :beaten:

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I give you a picture of Motokariya Yuika...the lead trombone...she is the heart of this movie, not Juri...first to show up for the audition (with a recorder)...super lung power...first to get a proper sound out of her instrument...first to understand what swing is, while standing at an intersection with a traffic signal playing Coming thru the Rye..stopping her friends from starting prematurely at the band competiton, so they could thaw out & tune up...Yuika is the heart and soul of this movie!!

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bmwracer wrote:
That's the oboe player??

Yow. :)

Nice 'caps... Where'd they come from? I didn't see those in the closing credits...

These did not come from the movie itself, but from the 'making of' footages.

thtl wrote:

These did not come from the movie itself, but from the 'making of' footages.

Oops, I missed runpup's response. Here are some more pics of the cast:

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(She was also the newscaster in "Waterboys" movie.)

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(He was the emcee at the 'First & Last Concert'.)

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(Remember the drag queen in "Waterboys"?)

runpup wrote:

I give you a picture of Motokariya Yuika...the lead trombone...she is the heart of this movie, not Juri...first to show up for the audition (with a recorder)...super lung power...first to get a proper sound out of her instrument...first to understand what swing is, while standing at an intersection with a traffic signal playing Coming thru the Rye..stopping her friends from starting prematurely at the band competiton, so they could thaw out & tune up...Yuika is the heart and soul of this movie!!

Sekiguchi Kaori (Motokariya Yuika) was the exact opposite of Suzuki Tomoko (Ms. Ueno). Here is a picture of her in Yamakawa uniform:

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A lot of fun things about "Swing Girls" were never shown on the big screen. For instance in the "Swing Girls" website there is a made-up description of the backgrounds of the 16 girls and the boy. I briefly remember Sekiguchi Kaori's description as a quiet child whose parents are both working, leaving her talking the dog in the home appliance shop next door. Things like that makes the movie a lot more fun even after one left the cinema.

thtl wrote:

Sekiguchi Kaori (Motokariya Yuika) was the exact opposite of Suzuki Tomoko (Ms. Ueno). Here is a picture of her in Yamakawa uniform:

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Thanks, that's a great picture...I've been impressed with Yuika's acting since I first saw her in Sekachu...Hopefully, we'll get to see her eventually in Dear Friends.

runpup wrote:

Thanks, that's a great picture...I've been impreesed with Yuika's acting since I first saw her in Sekachu...Hopefully, we'll get to see her eventually in Dear Friends.

She has a small part in "Boku no Aruku Michi". Have you watched this drama?

thtl wrote:

She has a small part in "Boku no Aruku Michi". Have you watched this drama?

That is sitting patiently on my external hard drive waiting to be watched...I heard it was a good drama..with Yuika, it's gravy

Pictures of all the Swing Girls, and the boy:

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Ueno Juri

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Kanjiya Shihori

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Motokariya Yuika

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Toyoshima Yukari

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Hiraoka Yuuta

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Sekine Kana

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Mizuta Fumiko

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Asuka

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Nakamura Chise

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Nemoto Masae

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Matsuda Madoka

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Kanazaki Mutsumi

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Abe Nagisa

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Nagashima Misa

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Maehara Eri

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Nakazawa Natsuki

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Tatsumi Natsuko

thtl wrote:Pictures of all the Swing Girls, and the boy:

Wow!!!!! Where'd you get all those pictures?

That's the best pic I've seen of the tenor sax...truth be told, she's fascinated me since the first time I watched the movie...She doesn't look Japanese, but she surely must be.

runpup wrote:

Wow!!!!! Where'd you get all those pictures?

That's the best pic I've seen of the tenor sax...truth be told, she's fascinated me since the first time I watched the movie...She doesn't look Japanese, but she surely must be.

I ripped these photos off the 'Making of' footages.

By tenor sax are you referring to Ms. Ueno, or Nemoto Masae?

BTW here is the link to the "Swing Girls" website.

oh ya, can anyone tell me what's swing girls live - first and last concert about? i found the torrent but nobody's seeding it so i am unable to download. :shamefulcry:

runpup wrote:Racer, just in case newpeople to this thread didn't catch the torrent link you posted in the Juri thread... post it here....we gotta get more people on the A-train!!!!

Here's the torrent link: http://www.mybittorrent.com/info/77173/

And the subtitles are on the same page as well. :thumbsup:

thtl wrote:I ripped these photos off the 'Making of' footages.

I recognize the 'caps... :thumbsup:


Yow, the gals were in tears as they struggled trying to learn how to use their instruments... You had to feel for them. :sweat:

snowsnoop wrote:oh ya, can anyone tell me what's swing girls live - first and last concert about? i found the torrent but nobody's seeding it so i am unable to download. :shamefulcry:

I thought it was just music... Is it also video? :headscratch:

bmwracer wrote:
I thought it was just music... Is it also video? :headscratch:

Filmed live in December 2004. Also include behind-the-scenes featurette. Starring Swing Girls & A Boy, Micky Yoshino+Nobu Daito, Reo Yamaguchi&Orgia Brass Ensemble, Coelacanth, Fumiyasu Yaguchi to Swing Ladies & Gentlemen with Hiroshi Kishimoto, Voja, Sugawara Daikichi.


got the above info from cdjapan webby
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=PCBG-50709


seems like there was a dvd and cd