The Excitement of the Do Re Mi Fa Girl (1985) is less a movie and more a state of being. It captures the manic, anxious, hopeful energy of a teenager realizing that she does not need all seven notes to make a revolution. She only needs four, a drum machine, and the courage to be off-key.
Rumored to be composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto (uncredited) under a pseudonym, the soundtrack is a hybrid of Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence piano motifs and LinnDrum machine breaks. The titular track, "Excitement of the Do Re Mi Fa Girl," features a female voice whispering the scale over a bass solo that sounds like a crying fretless guitar. The Excitement of the Do Re Mi Fa Girl -1985 - ...
A sexually liberated student (Usagi Aso) who assists Akiko but ultimately becomes the subject of the professor's increasingly strange research. Legacy and Visual Style Bumpkin Soup (1985) - IMDb The Excitement of the Do Re Mi Fa
The title refers to the musical solfege syllables: Do, Re, Mi, Fa... stopping before So (Sol) and La. This is crucial. Our protagonist, rumored to be a young actress named (a pseudonym used in lost media circles), does not complete the scale. She represents the process of becoming, not the final product. Rumored to be composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto (uncredited)
The film is less a traditional narrative and more a "deconstructive diatribe" on college life and erotic cinema. Filmaffinity Genre-Bending
: After being shelved, Kurosawa bought back the rights and reworked it for the Director's Company , an independent collective that allowed for more creative freedom.