Stratosphere Girl

Sep 9 2004 Unrated 1h 30m
Drama, Mystery

Angela is a French art student living in Germany who loves to draw comics and creates elaborate tales drawn in a soft and romantic style. One night, Angela meets Yamamoto, a club DJ from Japan, who invites her to come to Tokyo with him. Infatuated with Yamamoto, Angela impulsively agrees, and is soon sharing an apartment with a handful of Western expatriates who work at a nightclub where Japanese businessmen drink, sing karaoke, and date the "hostesses" for a fee.

Plot

Enter a dark, dangerous world where the lines between reality and fantasy are blurred. Angela is 18, a stunning Dutch blonde, a comic illustrator, and bored with life. Eager for adventure, she moves to Tokyo to become a bar hostess for Asian men who like Western women. An innocent in this sexual underworld, she confronts sleazy customers, jealous co-workers and a mystery: the disappearance of a former hostess. As she discovers clues, she sketches them out in comic-strip style, and slowly begins to confuse what she knows with what she draws.

Written by

Matthias X. Oberg

Directed by

Matthias X. Oberg

Cast

Chloé Winkel, Jon Yang, Rebecca Palmer

Crew

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Production Countries

Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Germany

Production Companies

SF DRS/ SRG SSR idée suisse, Clubdeal, Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, Paradis Films, Motel Films, WDR, Pandora Film, Palomar, Eurospace

Languages

English, Nederlands

Awards

1 win

Scores
# of Votes
1,443
Average Rating
6.3 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA