Love & Pop (1998)
January 10, 1998Release Date
Love & Pop (1998)
January 10, 1998Release Date


Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.

Asumi Miwa
Hiromi Yoshii / Theme Song Performance

Kirari
Chisa Noda

Hirono Kudo
Nao Yokoi

Yukie Nakama
Chieko Takamori

Mitsuru Hirata
Kakegawa

Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Yoshimura

Moro Morooka
Yazaki

Toru Tezuka
Uehara

Zoren Legaspi
Actor

Ikkei Watanabe
Kobayashi

Tadanobu Asano
Captain XX

Naomi Kawase
Woman speaking to Hiromi (voice)

Akira Ishida
Yoshio

Kotono Mitsuishi
Radio Host (voice)

Megumi Hayashibara
Answering Machine (voice)

Taiju Okayasu
Odagiri

Ritsuko Shimada
Aoki

Harumi Shuhama
Ishioka

Hitomi Miwa
Hiromi's Sister

Ken Osawa
Business Man

Nana Okada
Hiromi's Mother

Leo Morimoto
Hiromi's Father

Hideaki Anno
Director / Screenplay

Shinkichi Mitsumune
Music Director / Original Music Composer
Media.












Details.
Release DateJanuary 10, 1998
Original Nameラブ&ポップ
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 52m
Filming LocationsShibuya-ku · Shibuya, Japan
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Love & Pop (ラブ&ポップ, Rabu & Poppu) is a 1998 Japanese experimental coming-of-age film directed and co-written by Hideaki Anno, based on the novel Topaz II by Ryū Murakami. It was Anno's first live action feature-length film. The film was shot almost entirely on hand-held digital cameras and contains unorthodox camera work, including many different mounted camera positions, such as on a model train riding on tracks. The film also flips from widescreen to fullscreen, distorts (with effects such as a fisheye lens), confuses, and makes use of overlays stacked in layers to convey the character's emotions.
An official English-language DVD was released in 2004 by Kino on Video. In 2025, GKIDS announced that they would hold movie screenings for a 2k restoration of the film in North America. The film was first screened at the IFC Center in New York City on February 21, 2025 and then at the American Cinematheque Los Feliz theater on February 23, 2025.
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