Love & Pop

Love & Pop

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

1998•1h 52m•7.7/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

7.7/10(85)

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.

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Production

Toei Company, Cine Bazar

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Asumi Miwa

Asumi Miwa

Hiromi Yoshii

Kirari

Kirari

Chisa Noda

Hirono Kudo

Nao Yokoi

Yukie Nakama

Yukie Nakama

Chieko Takamori

Mitsuru Hirata

Mitsuru Hirata

Kakegawa

Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Yoshimura

Moro Morooka

Moro Morooka

Yazaki

Toru Tezuka

Toru Tezuka

Uehara

Ikkei Watanabe

Ikkei Watanabe

Kobayashi

Tadanobu Asano

Tadanobu Asano

Captain XX

Naomi Kawase

Naomi Kawase

Woman speaking to Hiromi (voice)

Akira Ishida

Akira Ishida

Yoshio

Kotono Mitsuishi

Kotono Mitsuishi

Radio Host (voice)

Megumi Hayashibara

Megumi Hayashibara

Answering Machine (voice)

Taiju Okayasu

Taiju Okayasu

Odagiri

Ritsuko Shimada

Aoki

Harumi Shuhama

Harumi Shuhama

Ishioka

Hitomi Miwa

Hitomi Miwa

Hiromi's Sister

Ken Osawa

Ken Osawa

Business Man

Nana Okada

Nana Okada

Hiromi's Mother

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