Love & Pop (ラブ&ポップ) 26 years old

Schoolgirls by day... Call girls by night...

Love & Pop

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.

Credits

Love & Pop Cast

Name Character
Megumi Hayashibara She was 31, now 57 years old as Answering machine voice
Akira Ishida He was 30, now 56 years old as Yoshio
Tadanobu Asano He was 24, now 50 years old as Captain XX
Ikkei Watanabe He was 35, now 61 years old as Kobayashi
Kotono Mitsuishi She was 30, now 56 years old as Radio host
Ken Osawa as Business man
Morooka Moro He was 39, now 65 years old as Yazaki
Asumi Miwa She was 16, now 42 years old as Hiromi Yoshii
Mitsuru Hirata He was 44, now 70 years old as Kakegawa
Leo Morimoto He was 55, now 81 years old as Hiromi's father
Nana Okada She was 0, now 26 years old as Hiromi's mother
Kirari She was 17, now 43 years old as Chisa Noda
Mitsuru Fukikoshi He was 33, now 59 years old as Yoshimura
Hirono Kudo as Nao Yokoi
Hitomi Miwa She was 19, now 45 years old as Hiromi's sister
Toru Tezuka He was 36, now 61 years old as Uehara
Yukie Nakama She was 18, now 44 years old as Chieko Takamori

Love & Pop Crew

Name Department
Hiroshi Okuda as Editor. He was 65 (now 91) years old Editing
Ryū Murakami as Novel. He was 46 (now 72) years old Writing
Toshimichi Ootsuki as Producer. He was 36 (now 62) years old Production
Hideaki Anno as Director. He was 38 (now 63) years old Directing
Hideaki Anno as Screenplay. He was 38 (now 63) years old Writing
Takahide Shibanushi as Director of Photography. He was 40 (now 66) years old Camera
Akio Satsukawa as Screenplay. He was 37 (now 63) years old Writing
Kimihiko Tsurugaya as Producer. Production
Love & Pop poster
Love & Pop (26 years)

Schoolgirls by day... Call girls by night...

  • Release day: Saturday, January 10, 1998
  • Runtime: 110 minutes