6.3Iguana Girl · 1996
Iguana Girl (1996) is a Sci-Fi & Fantasy / Drama series, starring Miho Kanno, Naomi Kawashima, Yoshinori Okada.
Sci-Fi & FantasyDrama
6.3Overview
Iguana Girl is a manga by Moto Hagio published in Petit Flower. It was adapted into a television drama in 1996. It is about a young girl, Rika, whose mother views her as being ugly, and favours her other daughter, Mami. Rika thinks of herself as ugly and as an iguana, but after her mother's death, realises that her mother was also an ugly iguana. Iguana Girl reflects Hagio's own relationship with her mother, and it took her "years to write this story". Hagio saw an iguana in a documentary on television and identified with it, feeling it was "lamenting its failure to become a human, just like me".
Cast
Miho Kanno, Naomi Kawashima, Yoshinori Okada, Rena Komine, Kanako Enomoto, Masao Kusakari, Hitomi Sato, Koji Yamamoto
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What is "Iguana Girl" about?
Iguana Girl is a manga by Moto Hagio published in Petit Flower. It was adapted into a television drama in 1996. It is about a young girl, Rika, whose mother views her as being ugly, and favours her other daughter, Mami. Rika thinks of herself as ugly and as an iguana, but after her mother's death, realises that her mother was also an ugly iguana. Iguana Girl reflects Hagio's own relationship with her mother, and it took her "years to write this story". Hagio saw an iguana in a documentary on television and identified with it, feeling it was "lamenting its failure to become a human, just like me".
When was "Iguana Girl" released?
Iguana Girl was released in 1996.
Who stars in "Iguana Girl"?
The cast includes Miho Kanno, Naomi Kawashima, Yoshinori Okada, Rena Komine.
