"Girls" follows four beautiful women and depicts the troubles found in their love lives and work place. Yukiko Takigawa (Karina) works at a big advertising firm and has a good looking boyfriend. Seiko Takeda is married and has no children. She works at a large real estate company. Yoko Kosaka is a single woman working at a historic stationary company. Takako Hirai is a single mother who works for a car manufacturer.
Acting
Karina's unraveling is spectacularly uncomfortable.
Writing
Dinner scene dialogue cuts deeper each rewatch.
Production
Tokyo offices feel suffocatingly real.
Director
Yoshihiro Fukagawa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'OL' (office lady) archetype here subverts the typical docile image— these women are professionally competent but personally unravelling. Director Fukagawa specifically wanted to capture post-bubble economy anxiety.
The infamous dinner scene was shot in one continuous 12-minute take. The actresses reportedly got genuinely drunk on real wine by take 4, and that's the version in the film.
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