This movie stars Kiyoka Sugiura, Rina Takemura, Rumi Yazawa, Misuzo Akimoto, Sayaka Tateishi, and Nana Mizuno. And let’s hear it for the opening. Well, if it ain’t the Mikado, I don’t know what is. The first scene stars three of these girls – no idea which ones – by a swimming pool but they are dressed in classical kimonos. And they look exactly like the three little girls that start off the Gilbert & Sullivan opera, “The Mikado.” Here’s how their song goes, and tell me it doesn’t sound like every Japanese girl you’ve ever known.
