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Tokyo Pop

Release Date:April 15, 1988

Running Time:100 min

Genres:Comedy, Music, Romance

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Cast

Carrie Hamilton Diamond Yukai Taiji Tonoyama Tetsuro Tamba Masumi Harukawa Toki Shiozawa Hiroshi Mikami Michael Cerveris Gina Belafonte Rikiya Yasuoka Hiroshi Kobayashi Hiroshi Sugita

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Synopsis

A young rock singer is not appreciated by her band, and gets a postcard from Japan saying "wish you were here". She takes what little money she has including ex-boyfriend's rent money and goes to Tokyo. She has numerous cross-cultural adventures and ends up singing with a Japanese rock group looking for a gaijin gimmick.

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