As the Japanese saying goes, the nail that sticks out gets hammered down.
That ain't true of Momoko and Ichiko.
Kamikaze Girls, written and directed by Nakashima Tetsuya, was created by hot cult author Novala Takemoto. The secret of Takemoto's continued success in Japan (his debut, Sewing Machine sold 500,000 alone) is the sympathetic portraits of his protagonists filled with ennui that have struck a chord with disenfranchised young Japan.

The girls that populate his candy-coloured universe are, as the Japanese proverb goes, the protruding nails. Ever mindful of their growing pains and, of course, the fickle tastes in kitsch fashion that fill the painfully-fashionable streets of Harajuku and Daikan-yama.