Terunosuke Takezai Movies

A young woman has to choose between money, love and freedom in this comedy-drama from Japan. Suzuko (Yu Aoi) is twenty-one years old and has served a short sentence in jail after her co-workers caught her conducting some extra-legal business. Deciding a change of locale is in order, Suzuko moves out of her parents' home and begins holding down a series of odd jobs, determined to travel to greener pastures as soon as she saves up one million yen (roughly $9,500). After delivering newspapers and working as a cleaning lady, Suzuko ends up at a resort hotel, where she hires on with the staff. Suzuko strikes up a romance with a young man living nearby, but with her bank account nearing seven figures, she decides she must stay true to her original plan and hits the road, making her way to the mountains where she happens upon a peach farm. Suzuko is welcomed by the farmers and is offered a job as a "Peach Girl," helping to promote their crops in stores. Suzuko's bankroll begins to grow again until her new employers learn that she's done time in jail. Hyakuman Yen To Nigamushi Onna (aka The Million Yen Girl) received its world premiere at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide