Based on the bestselling novel-turned-manga by cult author Novala Takemoto, Kamikaze Girls revolves around 17-year-old Momoko (Kyoko Fukada), a self-absorbed dreamer and 'Lolita' fashion obsessive whose love of all things Rococo sees her fantasizing about fleeing her back-country home and living life in 18th Century Versailles.

While selling off her father's supplies of bootleg designer fashion goods in order to fund her expensive obsession, Momoko unexpectedly meets the rebellious Ichigo (Anna Tsuchiya), a rough-and-tumble 'Yanki' biker chick. The girls begin a tentative and unlikely relationship that soon sees the two seemingly incompatible misfits forming a unique friendship. Together, they embark on a vividly coloured, sugar sweet, hyper-stylized odyssey of female bonding all set to a pounding J-Pop beat.

Described as by the Sunday Times as 'a wild, surreal speed-freak's walk on the kitsch side of pop culture obsessions' and by Metro as 'everything you'd want in a slice of Japanese pop culture and more,' director Tetsuya Nakashima's adaptation of Takemoto's novel is a full-on bubblegum-laced extravaganza – the cinematic equivalent of a sweet-toothed teenager being given the keys to the candy store.

Starring J-Pop idol Kyoko Fukada (The Ring 2; Dolls) and pop star turned actress Anna Tsuchiya (Dororo; Sakuran), Kamikaze Girls is an exuberant trip through teenage alienation terrain in the company of "two of the most fun and endearing girls ever to grace the screen." Allegedly. Watch this space for our upcoming review.

Kamikaze Girls will be released on DVD by Third Window Films on 12th January 2009 at the RRP of £14.99. Special Features include: interviews with Kyoko Fukada and Anna Tsuchiya; theatrical trailer; Third Window trailers.

UPDATE (23rd December 2008): The DVD release date has now been put back to 26th January 2008.