Spring Awakens
Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.
Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.
Tatsuya Ishiguro
Shûji Hirobe
Haruko Sugimura
Yoshiko Kuga
Kumiko Hirobe
Takashi Shimura
Kenzô Ogura
Yuriko Hanabusa
Akiko Tanai
Chōko Iida
Tama Takemura
Sachiko Murase
Masa Hirobe
Minako Hamada
Schoogirl
Otowa Haruno
Kei Ogura
Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.
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Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
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A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.