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.

Apr 2, 2025 · Demotivated, depressed, he decided to escape from the world of animation for a while, and ventured into live-action cinema for the first time with Love & Pop. Adapted from the novel Topaz II by Ryu Murakami, this film offers a disturbing insight into the daily life of a Japanese high school student.

Jan 9, 1998 · The film centers on four Japanese high school girls involved in enjo kosai, or compensated dating, where older businessmen pay teenage girls for their time or, in rare cases, prostitution. The main character, Hiromi, struggles with …

Apr 3, 2025 · Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends spend the summer going on dates with older men for money. Armed with only a cellphone, Hiromi sets out to date her way to ¥128,000 in order to purchase an expensive topaz ring before the mall closes for the day.

actions. Through its use of inner monologues and existential meditations, Love & Pop lends itself to comparison with Anno’s Evangelion, applying themes he explored in the se-ries—self-worth, …

Hideaki Anno’s diaristic shot-on-video experiment, Love & Pop is a dreamy, day-in-the-life snapshot capturing the lives of teenage schoolgirls roving the streets of '90s bubble burst Tokyo.

Oct 9, 2013 · Hideaki Anno’s Love & Pop (1998) explores an activity that is apparently fairly popular in Japan, called enjo-kosai; compensated dating. Hiromi and her three friends are normal, middle-class teenagers in Japan, but they are not immune to the lure of fancy things.

Love & Pop is an angry but unfiltered look at a society that has abandoned itself, using its unusual creative process to enhance these emotions.

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. 112 mins More at IMDb TMDB. July 19, 1997. The bubble has burst.

Love & Pop concerns a group of listless high-school girls who turn to compensated dating in an effort to fuel their materialistic needs.