Tsutomu Niwa

17-year-old Naomi is one of a million such aimless teenagers, a Shibuya-girl wannabe, bottle blonde and face plastered in orange foundation, mobile phone grafted to her head and her pink lipsticked pout puffing petulantly at a cigarette as her mother gives her a dressing down for skipping school and staying out all night. Fortunately for this bolshie city brat, her mother's methods of parental control are a little less extreme than Fukasaku's. (midnighteye.com)