A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Featuring:
Kasumi Arimura, Nanami Abe, Morio Agata
Written by:
Hiroshi Hashimoto
Nobutaka Tsubota
Directed by:
Nobuhiro Doi
Release Date:
May 1, 2015
Original Title:
ビリギャル
Alternate Titles:
Biri Gal
Birigyaru
Gal at the Bottom
ビリギャル
ビリギャル:2015
奇蹟補習社
奇迹补习班
Genres:
Comedy | Drama
Production Companies:
TOHO
Production Countries:
Japan
Ratings / Certifications:
KR: 12
Runtime: 117
A high school girl, Sayaka Kudō was the bottom of the class. After a year, she improved her deviation value from 30 to 70, then passed Keio University that is considered one of the most difficult to enter in Japan.
Sayaka Kudo is a gyaru who wears miniskirts and dyes her hair blonde. Although she is a 2nd year senior high school student, she is on par academically with 4th grade elementary school students. She frequently transfers between school because she is unable to make friends, and was once suspended for being caught with cigarettes. To prepare her for her university entrance examination, her mother decides to send her to Seiho Cram School. However, when the school director, Yoshitaka Tsubota, hears about Sayaka's academic problem, he makes it his personal achievement to help her enter the university of her choice, Keio University, a prestigious university that is considered one of the most difficult to enter in Japan. After her father labels her an "air-head", Sayaka became determined to study hard to prove her father wrong. Over the course of the summer holidays of her second year through to the exams at the end of her third year in senior high school, Sayaka studies extremely hard. She even removes her blond hair dye and cuts her hair to show her resolve. Her results progressively improves and her academic deviation value increases tremendously from 30 to 70 in this short span of time.
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Art Direction:
Kei Gotsuji
Costume Design:
Nami Shinozuka
Director:
Nobuhiro Doi
Director of Photography:
Yasushi Hanamura
Editor:
Sayaka Yamamoto
Junnosuke Hogaki
Music:
Eishi Segawa
Emi Meyer
Music Supervisor:
Yoshitaka Fujimura
Novel:
Nobutaka Tsubota
Producer:
Jun'ichi Shindô
Atsushi Nasuda
Screenplay:
Hiroshi Hashimoto
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