Crews of Miss Osaka 2021:
Miss Osaka(2021) is a Danish film directed by Daniel Dencik starring Vic Carmen Sonne in the leading role.
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- Crews of Miss Osaka 2021:
- Story Analysis of Miss Osaka 2021:
- Ines replaces Maria in Japan, Miss Osaka 2021:
- Who killed Mimiko in Miss Osaka 2021:
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Story Analysis of Miss Osaka 2021:
Ines is an insecure girl who gets dumped every time she gets a boyfriend. She is now in Norway with her current Scientist boyfriend Lucas. Lucas and Ines meet Maria at a dinner in a restaurant who is totally different from Ines. Maria is the definition of charm, she can spell anyone with her lovely speeches.
‘It’s like you can hear the Nordic spirits. Like you can hear the melting Italian sun when you hear Puccini’s(Italian composer).’
Maria is from Japan whose real name is Mimiko. Maria’s beauty, personality attract Ines, it seems like they fall in love. One day, they get drunk in a car and fall asleep. Waking up, Ines never finds her. She screams calling her name but it doesn’t help her to find her.
Tickets for Japan, Maria’s working place address are found in her bag. Ines goes to Japan using the identity of Maria aka Mimiko. Maria works in a nightclub called ‘Miss Osaka’. The owner says the number one popular girl ‘Maria’ is in Norway now.
Ines lives in Japan and starts working in that Japanese pub. She learns everything she needs to survive there. On her first day at the pub, Ayano, the second most popular girl, asks her if she knows Mimiko but Ines refuses to know her.
Ines’s first day in the pub is a disaster but the owner gives her another chance. Meanwhile Lucas hires the police to find Ines as she is lost without any notification. Lucas thinks Maria aka Mimiko is behind Ines’s disappearance. The police check the passenger list and find Maria is back in Japan. But it’s not Maria, it’s Ines who has gone to Japan using her passport.
The police are trying to get hold of Maria. Ines has no one close to her. She never saw her parents because they never had time for her so Lucas never had any chance to meet them. Ines was always confused about herself. He might not be able to handle her insecurities very well.
Ayano tells Ines what she ought to talk about when she is with men. She needs to keep in mind whatever men love she loves that too. She wants to open up the heart of the man. Next day, Ines improves her communication a little better with placing her hand on the soft spot of men.
Ayano trains with a lot more girly expressions that men love. Ines, the unpopular inexpressive girl is becoming popular among men day by day. Ines has no headache for Lucas who is becoming sick as the Norway police arrest him, reckoning he has killed her.
Ines replaces Maria in Japan, Miss Osaka 2021:
One day, the owner of the club, Shigeru, comes to the club. He only loves Mimiko. Ines gets a little frightened seeing him. Mimiko is the only one who can handle him. Ines sits near Shigeru and makes a soft impression. Shigeru offers her to go to the races.
Ines learns what to say in Japanese when people go to see races. She solves mathematical puzzles and wins money betting numbers. It impresses Shigeru. Ines says to Shigeru she loves puccini just like Maria once said to her. She depicts a dreamy situation like she can hear the melting Italian sun in his music.
‘Me and my friend had this amazing Puccino moment. We drove out into the wilderness. The music was playing on the car radio. It felt like the music was made for that moment.’
Today, Ines is gonna sing a song in Miss Osaka club. Remember her first day? When she was too shy to sing a song. She has improved herself to this level. But the question is where is Maria aka Mimiko? Nobody knows what happened to her.
Ines is Shigeru’s girl now. Ayano keeps reminding her he isn’t Mr. Nice guy that agitates Ines, makes her think Ayano doesn’t consider her good enough for Shigeru and she accidentally utters ‘Maria’ instead of Mimiko. Ayano suspects Ines knows something about the disappearance of Maria.
That night Ines changes her whereabouts before anyone notices it. She confesses to Shigeru that she knew Mimiko. One day Mimiko wanted to swim in the lake when the northern lights were happening. Ines fell asleep, but got the feeling that something bad had happened to her. Waking up, she found her shoes and she was dead.
As she is obsessed with her like Shigeru, she pretends to be Mimiko. Knowing it all, Shigeru throws her out of the car and Ines leaves the club girl job.
Who killed Mimiko in Miss Osaka 2021:
Ines lies about the whole thing about Mimiko. In the last scene, we get to know that Ines found Mimiko in the lake but she didn’t save her. She exchanged her dress with Maria and floated her in the lake.
You can remember some lines that Mimiko uttered to Ines,
‘There is something true in your smile, so innocent. You are such a special girl. You just don’t know it. But you wish you could be anyone but yourself. But you can only be Ines…’
