“An absolute blast. Swing Girls swings harder than most big‑budget musicals. Infectious, funny, and impossible to watch without smiling.” – AsianMovieWeb
For the uninitiated: Swing Girls (2004), directed by the magnificent Shinobu Yaguchi, is a rural Japanese high school comedy with the soul of a Basie record. A group of listless girls, part of a summer school “supplement” class, deliver bento lunches to the school’s brass band. The band gets violently ill (food poisoning from the fish, naturally). The girls are blamed. To pay for a new set of instruments, they must become the band. Swing.Girls.2004.1080p.BluRay.x264-SSF -Suwingu...
: SSF (the name of the digital preservation group that released this specific version). “An absolute blast
: Buying beat-up instruments from pawn shops and working odd jobs to afford them. A group of listless girls, part of a
The film centers on Tomoko and her friends, who are stuck in remedial summer math classes. To avoid school, they volunteer to deliver lunches to the school's brass band, who are cheering for the baseball team. However, the food spoils in the heat, giving the entire band food poisoning. Formation of the Band
, discovering a hidden passion that takes them from "clueless" to "showstoppers". Why This Movie is Special Swing Girls