Off-Balance (2000)
1h 35m
Running Time
January 1, 2000
Release Date
Off-Balance (2000)
1h 35m
Running Time
January 1, 2000
Release Date
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Plot.
13-year old Chiaki Matsumoto enters middle school with two rules for herself: 1. Always stay cool and 2. Don’t make friends. Having suffered bullying in elementary school, Chiaki chooses a path of isolation, building emotional walls and deciding to live a tough, solitary life. One day, by chance, she meets Kiki, a flamboyant and mysterious individual who transcends age and gender. As Chiaki begins to interact with Kiki, she slowly opens her heart, learning to trust again.
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Cast & Crew.
Megumi Hatachiya
Chiaki
Fumiyo Kohinata
Kiku-chan
Yu Hatano
Mizue
Shuji Kashiwabara
Heath
Tomato Akai
Yuri-chan
Kumiko Tsuchiya
Homeroom Teacher
Ryushi Mizukami
Video Store Guy
Masayo Umezawa
Mizue's Mother
Noriko Hayami
Masayoshi's Wife
Yuichi Haba
Masayoshi
Mieko Harada
Chiaki's Mother
Yuki Itoh
Minamoto
Shin Togashi
Director
Shiori Kazama
Screenplay
Naoko Uozumi
Novel
Akimasa Kawashima
Editor
Media.
Details.
Release Date
January 1, 2000
Original Name
非・バランス
Status
Released
Running Time
1h 35m
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Wiki.
Off-Balance (非・バランス) is a 2001 Japanese film directed by Shin Togashi based on the novel Hi-baransu by Naoko Uozumi which won the author the Kodansha Award for New Writers of Children's Literature.