---
title: 'Swing Girls (2004)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Shinobu Yaguchi'
released: '2004-09-11'
runtime_minutes: 105
genres:
  - 'Music'
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/swing-girls-2004'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435434/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Swing Girls (2004)

2004 · 105 min · Music, Comedy · Japan

Original title: スウィングガールズ

## Synopsis

Swing Girls  is a 2004 Japanese coming-of-age teen musical comedy film co-written and directed by Shinobu Yaguchi. The plot follows a group of inept high school girls who form a big band. The cast includes Juri Ueno, Yuta Hiraoka, Shihori Kanjiya, Yuika Motokariya and Yukari Toyashima. The film ranked 8th at the Japanese box office in 2004, and won seven prizes at 28th Japan Academy Prize, including "Most Popular Film" and "Newcomer of the Year" for Yuta Hiraoka and Juri Ueno.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Shinobu Yaguchi](https://cinepixo.com/people/shinobu-yaguchi)
- **Screenplay:** [Shinobu Yaguchi](https://cinepixo.com/people/shinobu-yaguchi)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Hiroshi Kishimoto](https://cinepixo.com/people/hiroshi-kishimoto), [Mitsuyoshi Yoshino](https://cinepixo.com/people/mitsuyoshi-yoshino)
- **Director of Photography:** [Takahide Shibanushi](https://cinepixo.com/people/takahide-shibanushi)

## Cast

- [Nagisa Abe](https://cinepixo.com/people/nagisa-abe)
- [Miho Shiraishi](https://cinepixo.com/people/miho-shiraishi)
- [Yuika Motokariya](https://cinepixo.com/people/yuika-motokariya)
- [Naoto Takenaka](https://cinepixo.com/people/naoto-takenaka)
- [Juri Ueno](https://cinepixo.com/people/juri-ueno)
- [Yūta Hiraoka](https://cinepixo.com/people/yuta-hiraoka)

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Official site: http://altamira.jp/swinggirls/index.html
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/swing-girls-2004
Film facts: Wikidata (Q1185528); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.