Zebra-Star (band)

 

A young Japanese boy band called Zebra-Star (ZeBRA☆Star) in nice shiny blue collars with red and white wide stripes. Also touching the collars. Red scarf. White blouse and medium length pants.

2019 song/clip (uploaded in 2020) called "ZeBRA☆RED 「Lucky Boy☆Lucky Days」 リリースイベントダイジェスト" uploader stardustdigital. 3.55. There are also more clips.

Rating 4-5.

An (2015)

Drama Japan, 2015. English title Sweat Bean. Japanese title: あん. Repost May 2018. Rating was 3(-4).

Several teen girls in white and blue sailor dresses. Long collar flaps.

Novel by Durian Sukegawa.

Haru no mezame (1947)

Drama aka Sprink Awakens
-Year: 1947
-Year in film: ~1940s 
-Country: Japan
-Who in clothing: girls ~14-16 ? sailor fukus
-Who in clothing 2:
-Available on DVD: yes ?
-I own: no
-Clothing occurrence: medium+ ?
-Rating:  4/10 ? 
-Rating: ****
-Comment: Some teen girls in as well white and dark (blue) sailor fukus. Long, dark collar flaps and long dark skirts. 3 stripes and matching dickey.

Original title: 春の目ざめ. English title Spring Awakens.

I only have checked this briefly.
Rating 3~4. Typical sailor fukus.

Umimachi Diary

Drama "Our Little Sister"
–Year: 2015
–Year in film: 2010s ?
–Country: Japan
–Who in clothing: Suzu ~16, sailor fuku
–Who in clothing 2:
–Available on DVD: yes
–I own: no
–Clothing occurence: medium ?
–Rating:  3/10 ?
–Rating: ***
–Comment: At least Suzu Hirose as 14 yo Suzu in a typical sailor fuku (school sailor dress uniform). Red scarf, blue short skirt and collar, 2 white stripes. Also she or another girl in blue bib overalls (soon on my other blog, rating 3 as well).

I found this by coincidence and can't say much more. Pics taken from the trailer.

Based on the josei manga series by Akimi Yoshida. Original title "海街diary". The plot is about 3 older sisters (19, 22, 29) and this younger shy half-sister.

Rating 2-3 for now.

Warera rettôsei

Drama, director Yuzo Sato
-Year: 1965
-Year in film: 1960s
-Country: Japan
-Who in clothing: teen girls, sailor fukus
-Who in clothing 2:
-Available on DVD: yes ?
-I own: no
-Clothing occurence: often ?
-Rating: 3/10 ?
-Rating: ***
-Comment: Many older teen girls/young women in sailor fukus.

I found this long time ago and want to get rid of this and add this for the sake of completion. I don't know much about this movie. Sorry, I don't know Japanese. Probably a typical school drama.

Original title "われら劣等生" what means We Fools. I hope that's the right title. Starring Akira Adachi (安達明) born 1948 who is also a female singer, song Haru o matsu shôjo, Ayumi Ishida and Katsue Takaishi (高石かつ枝 born 1946 also a singer).

Rating 3 for now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVi1GrYgiKA

Sailor Fuku Hangyaku Doumei

School drama series, 23 ep.
-Year: 1986-1987
-Year in film: 1980s
-Country: Japan
-Who in clothing: teen girls, sailor fukus
-Who in clothing 2:
-Available on DVD: yes ?
-I own: no
-Clothing occurrence: often
-Rating:  6/10 ?
-Rating: ******
-Comment: Japanese teen girls in typical long dark blue sailor fukus and also white long sailor dresses which is quite rare. All collars matching the color of the dress. Clean, long blue collars, not sure about the white ones.

As announced I also found this series on YouTube. English title "The Gifted Ones", literally Sailor Uniform Rebellion Alliance, Japanese title "セーラー服反逆同盟". I haven't found it on IMDb.

The title song is Shadow of Love from A-Jari. Series is completely on YouTube but I haven't checked it completely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xf-lUflKug

Sêrâ-fuku to kikanjû (1982)

Drama series, 2 episodes
-Year: 1982
-Year in film: 1980s ?
-Country: Japan
-Who in clothing: girls, sailor fukus
-Who in clothing 2:
-Available on DVD: yes ?
-I own: no
-Clothing occurence: often
-Rating:  4/10
-Rating: ****
-Comment: Japanese school girls in white sailor dresses / sailor fukus. Dark blue long collars, long blue scarves, 3 stripes. Teen boys in other school uniforms.

I found this on YouTube and I believe that this is the 1982 TV series  セーラー服と機関銃　『悲しいくらいほんとの話』原田知世 , not to be confused with the famous 1981 movie with the same title aka "Sailor Suit and Machine Gun" (rating 4)

/2011/09/20/sera-fuku-to-kikanju/

Most sailor fukus are probably long and dark blue and dark blue long collars as well (another movie coming coming later). But I prefer white blouses and blue collars.

I can't say much more about that as I don't understand Japanese.

Rating 4-5 for now.

Unknown 7: Japanese series or movie

Unknown Japanese series or movie
-Year: 19??
-Year in film: ? 1980s ?
-Country: Japan
-Who in clothing: girls, sailor fukus
-Who in clothing 2:
-Available on DVD: yes ?
-I own: no
-Clothing occurence: often ?
-Rating: 3/10 ?
-Rating: ***
-Comment: Some Japanese teen girls in typical school uniforms (sailor fukus). I found this YouTube clip some time ago, but don't know the title of this series or movie.

The song "赤いカンナが咲いていた" is sung by Akira Adachi (安達明), born 1948. Sorry, I can't say much more as I don't understand Japanese. I often find music clips that don't mention the movie title. I tried web translations and searching on IMDb but that's hard work and usually I can't find much more there.

Looks quite good. The collar of the left girl is very short at the front, so probably a very long collar flap on the back. If someone knows the title of this movie, please comment.

Rating 3-4.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyM86PmkGxs

Sailor suit stories (Japanese movies)

Comedy film
-Year: 1992 *
-Year in film: 1990s
-Country: Japan
-Who in clothing: teen girls, sailor dress
-Who in clothing 2:
-Available on DVD: VHS only
-I own: no
-Clothing occurrence: often ?
-Rating: 6 (8) /10 ?
-Rating: ******
-Comment: Some teen girls in sailor-fukus (school uniforms).

I recently searched again for sailor-fuku movies, this time using the Japanese word "セーラー服". First I found a different movie with a girl in a yery good yellow sailor dress, see below.

But this entry is about the pictured 1992 movie called "セーラー服物語　ヴァージンなんかじゃつまらない!!" which is an erotic teen comedy movie (age rating 15+). Starring Tomomi Miyauchi. I don't know the exact English title (maybe there isn't any) it would translated in "Sailor suit stories - Some virgins are somehow bored" (or similar). The "A Virgin? How bull!" is maybe just a tagline and I haven't found anything for that. I also don't know this movie and only have seen some pics on the front and back cover and no clips. 70 minutes. VHS distribution company Maxam.

Originally I found a 1980s film (maybe 1983) with a similar title from a controversial photographer who died in 1991. That movie is not a feature film and I think 30 minutes long and part of these kind of girls series. There is a short version (9 minutes) on YouTube showing 2 girls, one in a good yellow sailor dress, short yellow collar, 2 dark blue stripes, blue scarf and another girl with a blue collar and yellow scarf (both white blouses). As this is not a regular, "clean" feature film, I won't make a separate entry of that one (OOP anyway). Both films have no IMDb entry or I haven't found them.

Rating maybe 6 for the 1st movie and rating 8 for the 2nd one, because of the rare yellow dress.

As searching for school uniforms I also found modern cheerleader and letter jackets with very long sailor collars. Maybe I find movies with these sometimes.

Nijûshi no hitomi (1954)

Drama aka"Twenty-Four Eyes". Golden Globe
-Year: 1954
-Year in film: 1928-1948
-Country: Japan
-Who in clothing: girls, sailor fukus
-Who in clothing 2: boys
-Available on DVD: yes
-I own: no
-Clothing occurence: medium ?
-Rating: 4/10 ?
-Rating: ****
-Comment: Many girls in sailor dresses /sailor fukus. Also boys acting but probably not in sailor suits, but in traditional school clothing for boys. The movie is about a female teacher and her class, so interesting for everybody. I only have checked some few scenes. There's also a 1987 remake, which I also have to check but probably is much worse. Novel by Sakae Tsuboi.

Today I searched for Japanese films with sailor suits and the first I found was this clip. I first don't know the title of the movie as the clip has the title of a 1971 song (Song of the Beach, composer Narita) by Chieko Baishô. Starring Hideko Takamine (1924-2010). Original title "二十四の瞳"

I have to check this again later.

Rating 4 for now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH0fqRLi7aM

Chocolate to heitai

Drama aka "Chocolate and Soldiers"
-Year: 1938
-Year in film: before 1920s ??
-Country: Japan
-Who in clothing: girl Shigeko 14 yo, sailor dress
-Who in clothing 2:
-Available on DVD: no ?
-I own: no
-Clothing occurence: medium ?
-Rating: 3/10 ?
-Rating: ***
-Comment: At least one teen girl probably Hideko Takamine (1924-2010) in a sailor dress (school uniform / seifuku). Maybe also other actors? Also a young boys, but probably not in sailor suits.

I found this some few months ago during research for the "NHK boy drama series" (rating 5). I still can't find any clips and only this one pic (taken from http://forest-baku.blog.ocn.ne.jp/aozora/2011/01/ ), some more infos at http://toita1214.exblog.jp/17684887/ .

Directed by Takeshi Sato, novel by Masaru Kobayashi. Japanese title "チョコレートと兵隊". I can't say much more about this film. Maybe it is related to the 1908 operetta "The Chocolate Soldier" aka Der tapfere Soldat by Oscar Straus. I first thought of a 1930s  WWII related film, but I think the novel is published in the 1920s or earlier. I also can't find much about the author. Mabe it's a propaganda movie.

I also can't find any DVD nor VHS release, but research is hard as I don't know Japanese.

Rating 2 for now, but it's maybe a very good film. I have to check this again later.

Dare mo shiranai

Drama aka "Nobody Knows"
-Year: 2004
-Year in film: 1988 ?
-Country: Japan
-Who in clothing: girl Saki ~14 ys ?, sailor dress
-Who in clothing 2:  boys other clothes, girl pink skirtall
-Available on DVD: yes
-I own: yes, partly TV recording
-Clothing occurence: medium 
-Rating:  5/10 *     
-Rating: *****
-Comment: A teen girl in a white Japanese school uniform (blue skirt, blue collar 3 stripes), I think it's Hanae Kan. Also some boys acting, main character is a 12 yo boy (right pic on left) but I don't know of any boys in sailor suits. Though I like the boys' clothes.
Also a little girl in pink skirtalls or similar.

Also shirtless and bathtub scenes (2 boys), but nothing much of interest. But very good movie which I saw yesterday, but only the middle half of it. Maybe I will watch it completely next time if I have more time or space on my hard disc. The movie itself I would rate 7-8, but for sailor suit scenes 5-6 only.

Based on the case of the "Affair of the Four Abandoned Children of Sugamo".

Lots of awards and a nomination for a Young Artist Award for the main actor Yuya Yagira. Rated PG-13.

Furuhata Ninzaburō

Japanese Crime series + special
-Year: 1994-2006, 2008
-Year in film: 2000s ?
-Country: Japan
-Who in clothing: girl Asuka Tobe 14 ys, sailor dress
-Who in clothing 2: teen boys school clothing
-Available on DVD: yes
-I own: no
-Clothing occurence: medium ? 
-Rating:  4/10 ?      
-Rating: ****
-Comment: Mayuko Fukuda (pictured) in a dark blue sailor dress (typical Japanese school clothing "seifuku"), blue skirt, also cycling in those.
Also other teen girls at school (and maybe teen boys in similar clothes but no real sailor collars. Some jacket and scarf might look close). I think the pics are from the 2008 Furuhata Chugakusei Special.

Sorry, I don't know Japanese nor this series. High School and Crime series. Should be like Columbo (but obviously with more teens and school scenes).

Japanese title for main series: 古畑任三郎
2008 special: 古畑中学生
Actress: 福田麻由子

I have to check this again.
Rating 4-5 for now.

NHK boy drama series

Japanese film series 少年ドラマシリーズ
-Year: 1971-1983
-Year in film: ~1970s
-Country: Japan
-Who in clothing: (teen) girls, sailor dress
-Who in clothing 2: boys other clothing
-Available on DVD: yes
-I own: no
-Clothing occurence: often ?
-Rating: 5/10 ?
-Rating: *****
-Comment: Many (teen) girls and young women in sailor dresses in this film series for kids/teens. There are also some boys acting, but I don't know of any in sailor suits yet. I recently searched the web for pics and movies by foreign including Japanese translation of "sailor suits" and found this interesting film series. As I'm not able to understand Japanese it was very difficult using translations, search for actress' names, image search and image by image search. I haven't checked each film yet, but the most interesting ones I couldn't find online. One of the best websites is this

http://homepage2.nifty.com/nino-p/syounen.html

The only movies I know is Pippi Longstocking and Heidi. But more than half of the films are Japanese films, often Sci-Fi, some of Ryu Mitsuse. The most famous is maybe Time Traveler 1972 "Taimu toraberâ" of the sub (novel) series "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time". I also have problems finding entries at IMDb as I don't know the correct non-Japanese title. Some films are

明日への追跡 (1976 series)
巣立つ日まで
夕ばえ作戦 (1974)

Pic showing マリコ (1974) English title Mariko ?. Starring Mayumi Asano (浅野真弓 *1957) showing maybe the most unusual colored sailor dress. Pic taken from
http://miwako-f.web.infoseek.co.jp/actress/m-asano.htm

I have to check the movies if I have more time, maybe someone can help here. All films seem to be released on DVD. Cover depicting a waved vintage TV set. Rating 5 for now.
Sorry the Japanese letters had distorted the blog design. I hope that I have fixed this.

Hotaru no haka (2005)

Drama, novel by Akiyuki Nosaka
-Year: 2005
-Year in film: 1945
-Country: Japan
-Who in clothing: Keiko ~18ys , sailor dress
-Who in clothing 2:
-Available on DVD: yes
-I own: no
-Clothing occurence: low ?
-Rating:  3/10 ?   
-Rating: ***
-Comment: I think Mao Inoue (pictured) in a white sailor dress (blue skirt). Blue collar, 3 stripes. I don't know this movie and assume few or medium sailor dress scenes.
Set in Japan during WWII. Not to be confused with the 2008 movie aka Tombstone of the Fireflies. There is also a much more famous animated film.

English title "Grave of the Fireflies", original title "火垂るの墓".

There are also some kids acting (at least a boy and a girl), but I don't know of any other in sailor suit. The girl might have a white collar but it's not a sailor collar. I have to check this and the other movie again.
Rating 3-4 for now.

Sêrâ-fuku to kikanjû

"Sailor Suit and Machine Gun"
-Year: 1981
-Year in film: 1980s ?
-Country: Japan
-Who in clothing: Izumi ~17 ys, sailor dresses
-Who in clothing 2:
-Available on DVD: yes
-I own: no
-Clothing occurence: often ?
-Rating:  4/10 
-Rating: ****
-Comment: Hiroko Yakushimaru as tomboy Hoshi, Izumi (pictured) in at least 3 different school sailor dresses (sailor-fuku, seifuku). Blue and white collars. Also stripes on the white dress. One of the few films with sailor suit in the title. Interesting title and weird film. I don't know the complete film and only saw some clips on YouTube. Romance / crime film about a drug dealer and a school gang. Novel by Jirô Akagawa. Not sure if other actors in sailor suits as well. I don't like this film but wanted to add it. So rating 4 for now only. I think there are also other Japanese films with sailor suits (boys) and will add them. There is also a later TV series. Original Japanese title セーラー服と機関銃