ビリギャル

I saw the trailer in Japan last year and found it interesting. I finally got the time to see it.
I enjoyed it very much, especially as it's built on a real story.
It really shows how important teachers are! They are the ones who can make students reach higher!
The movie is not complicated therefore it was great to watch when being tired after work.
I also like the song right before the end, it took me some time before I realized it was in English..haha!

★★★

Title: ビリギャル (Biri Gyaru)
English Title: Flying Colors
Directed by: Nobuhiro Doi
Produced by: Jun Nasuda, Junichi Shindō
Distributed by: Toho
Release dates: May 1, 2015
Running time: 117 minutes
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese



Plot
Sayaka Kudo is a gyaru who wears miniskirts and dyes her hair blonde. Although she is a 2nd year senior high school student, she is on par academically with 4th grade elementary school students. She frequently transfers between schools because she is unable to make friends, and was once suspended for being caught with cigarettes. Eventually she attends a private all-girls high school where she plays and enjoys her extra-scholarly activities to the nth degree while skipping study altogether.

To prepare her for her university entrance examination, her mother decides to send her to Seiho Cram School. However, when the school director, Yoshitaka Tsubota, hears about Sayaka's academic problem, he makes it his personal goal to help her enter the university of her choice, Keio University, a prestigious university that is considered one of the most difficult to enter in Japan and to get back at her father.

After her father, whose main goal is to get her brother Ryuta into pro baseball, labels her an "air-head" and says she and her mother are being scammed by the cram school only for money, Sayaka becomes determined to study hard to prove her father wrong. Over the course of the summer holidays of her second year through to the exams at the end of her third year in senior high school, Sayaka studies extremely hard and goes without sleep to the extent that she nods off in her high school classes. She even dyes her hair back to black and cuts it to show her resolve. Her results progressively improve on practice tests and her academic deviation value increases tremendously from 30 to 70 in this short span of time.

Cast
Kasumi Arimura as Sayaka Kudō
Atsushi Itō as Yoshitaka Tsubota
Shūhei Nomura as Reiji Mori
Yūhei Ōuchida as Ryūta Kudō
Kokoro Okuda as Mayumi Kudō
Morio Agata as Makoto Minegishi
Ken Yasuda as Takashi Nishimura
Airi Matsui as Mika Honda
Tetsushi Tanaka as Sayaka's Father
Yō Yoshida as Sayaka's Mother

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