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Stratosphere Girl
Stratosphere Girl
	Stratosphere Girl film poster
Directed by	Matthias X. Oberg [de]
Written by	Matthias X. Oberg
Produced by	Karl Baumgartner
Starring	Chloé Winkel,; Jon Yang
Distributed by	TLA Releasing
Release date	9 September 2004 (Germany);
Running time	90 min
Languages	English, Dutch, Japanese

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Stratosphere Girl (also known as The Stratosphere Girl in the United States) is a 2004 film from Germany written and directed by Matthias X. Oberg [de].

The film is about a teenage girl who likes drawing Manga but ended traveling to Japan to work at an exclusive club for rich businessmen. She discovers disturbing case of murder as the film goes on.

Plot[edit]

Teenager Angela (Chloé Winkel), who is skilled at drawing, meets and falls in love with an attractive Japanese DJ. Encouraged by him, she goes to Japan to work at an exclusive club for rich businessmen, who like to meet with young blonde women. From the start, the film is surreal with unique characters, clear and sharp cinematography, and slow panning camera work. Manga drawings are also used to enhance the plot and ambiance.

Angela seeks work at the aforementioned club and, after having been begrudgingly let in, she is met with derision by the other girls working there. However, despite having spurned some of the other girls, she soon proves to be a favorite among the patrons by pretending to be a Lolita-style 15-year-old to please the businessmen.

The plot has a sinister undertone of the possibility of murder of a girl, Larissa, whom Angela has replaced. As the film goes on, we learn Larissa was possibly murdered, not by Japanese men in search of sick sexual fantasy fulfillment, but at the envious and jealous hands of her workmates. In the last scenes we learn Larissa lives and, furthermore, this is when Angela is heralded with the contract to be a Manga artist.

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  | name = Stratosphere Girl
  | image = Stratosphere Girl movie.jpg
  | caption = ''Stratosphere Girl'' film poster
- | director = [[Matthias X. Oberg]]
+ | director = {{ill|Matthias X. Oberg|de}}
- | writer = [[Matthias X. Oberg]]
+ | writer = Matthias X. Oberg
- | starring = [[Chloé Winkel]],<br>[[Jon Yang]]
+ | starring = Chloé Winkel,<br>[[Jon Yang]]
  | producer = [[Karl Baumgartner]]
  | distributor = [[TLA Releasing]]
  | budget =
- | released = 9 September 2004 (<small>Germany</small>)
+ | released = {{Film date|2004|09|09|Germany|df=yes}}
  | runtime = 90 [[Minute|min]]
  | language = English, Dutch, Japanese
-  | }}
+  }}
-'''''Stratosphere Girl''''' (also known as ''The Stratosphere Girl'' in the [[USA]]) is a [[2004 in film|2004]] [[film]] from Germany written and directed by [[Matthias X. Oberg]].
+'''''Stratosphere Girl''''' (also known as '''''The Stratosphere Girl''''' in the United States) is a 2004 film from Germany written and directed by {{ill|Matthias X. Oberg|de}}.
-The film is about a [[Germany|German]] teenager who travels to [[Japan]] to work at an exclusive club for rich businessmen.
+The film is about a teenage girl who likes drawing Manga but ended traveling to Japan to work at an exclusive club for rich businessmen. She discovers disturbing case of murder as the film goes on.
 ==Plot==
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+{{cleanup film|date=July 2013}}
-A Belgian{{what|date=April 2015}} teenager, Angela (Chloé Winkel), who is skilled at drawing, meets, and subsequently falls in love, with an attractive [[Japanese people|Japanese]] [[Disc jockey|DJ]].  Encouraged by him, she goes to [[Japan]] to work at an exclusive club for rich businessmen, who like to meet with young blonde women.  From the start, the film is surreal with unique characters, clear and sharp cinematography, and slow panning camera work. [[Manga]] drawings are also used to enhance the plot and ambiance.
+Teenager Angela (Chloé Winkel), who is skilled at drawing, meets and falls in love with an attractive [[Japanese people|Japanese]] [[Disc jockey|DJ]].  Encouraged by him, she goes to Japan to work at an exclusive club for rich businessmen, who like to meet with young blonde women.  From the start, the film is surreal with unique characters, clear and sharp cinematography, and slow panning camera work. [[Manga]] drawings are also used to enhance the plot and ambiance.
-Angela seeks work at the aforementioned club and, after having been begrudgingly let in, she is met with derision by the other girls working there. However, despite having spurned some of the other girls, she soon proves to be a favourite among the patrons by pretending to be a [[Lolita]]-style 15-year-old to please the businessmen.
+Angela seeks work at the aforementioned club and, after having been begrudgingly let in, she is met with derision by the other girls working there. However, despite having spurned some of the other girls, she soon proves to be a favorite among the patrons by pretending to be a [[Lolita]]-style 15-year-old to please the businessmen.
 The plot has a sinister undertone of the possibility of murder of a girl, Larissa, whom Angela has replaced.  As the film goes on, we learn Larissa was possibly murdered, not by Japanese men in search of sick sexual fantasy fulfillment, but at the envious and jealous hands of her workmates.  In the last scenes we learn Larissa lives and, furthermore, this is when Angela is heralded with the contract to be a Manga artist.
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 [[Category:Films set in Japan]]
-[[Category:Films shot in Cologne (Germany)]]
+[[Category:Films shot in Cologne]]
-[[Category:German coming-of-age films]]
+[[Category:German coming-of-age drama films]]
 [[Category:Films about interracial romance]]
+[[Category:Films about comics]]
 [[Category:Films about fictional painters]]
+[[Category:Japan in non-Japanese culture]]
+[[Category:2000s German films]]