This event is what brings brings the main characters together: the dance instructor Madoka Hirayama, Kimiko and her mother and brother, and the other hula dance students. At the beginning of the film, a young girl named Sanae convinces her friend Kimiko to join the Hula dance group after she sees an advertisement. Unfortunately, the townspeople are not so quick to abandon their way of life and Kimiko’s mother, brother and fellow towns members disapprove of the Hawaiian community center. Furthermore, many of the japanese women in the town are shocked at the scandalous nature of the hula dancing and are scared off. Although, Sanae does convince Kimiko to stay. And so the dance instructor Madoka Hirayama arrives to the town with few potential students and a townsfolk that hates her and what she
This event is what brings brings the main characters together: the dance instructor Madoka Hirayama, Kimiko and her mother and brother, and the other hula dance students. At the beginning of the film, a young girl named Sanae convinces her friend Kimiko to join the Hula dance group after she sees an advertisement. Unfortunately, the townspeople are not so quick to abandon their way of life and Kimiko’s mother, brother and fellow towns members disapprove of the Hawaiian community center. Furthermore, many of the japanese women in the town are shocked at the scandalous nature of the hula dancing and are scared off. Although, Sanae does convince Kimiko to stay. And so the dance instructor Madoka Hirayama arrives to the town with few potential students and a townsfolk that hates her and what she