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Title: Sweet Story
Review: This was a sweet story, set in the mid 60's, about a town in Japan that is about to have it's life blood cut off by the closing off the town's only business - coal mine. One man has a vision of turning the town into a tourist destination by creating a "Little Hawaii". The central plot revolves around a group of girls that decide to become the resort's "Hula Girls". It is a sweet, touching story that is reminiscent of many other movies with similar themes ("Full Monty", etc). The translation did seem a bit rough. It seems as though they may have been trying to create a tone by using slang but it did not read well for me. The movie overcame the inferior subtitles. The movie won Japan's version of the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was an entertaining movie.
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