# Japanese Girls Never Die (2016)

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**Original title**: *アズミ・ハルコは行方不明*
**Runtime**: 101 min
**Genres**: Drama, Comedy
**Directed by**: Daigo Matsui
**Written by**: Misaki Setoyama
**Starring**: Yu Aoi, Mitsuki Takahata, Taiga Nakano, Shono Hayama, Huwie Ishizaki, Akiko Kikuchi

> *A Girl Has Gone Missing.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A gang of high school girls spends their nights handing out beatings to random men while a missing girl’s photo becomes a mural template. Their random violence leaves a town literally stamped with absence. The film could’ve used more than one idea.

**Mood tags**: outsider, raw, unhinged

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