As the original Japanese title indicates ("Azumi Haruko Is Missing"), Japanese Girls Never Die is centered around the disappearance of a woman, a void around which the film revolves: 27-year-old, unmarried Haruko (Aoi Yu), stuck in a no-prospect office job with a dead-end, one-way love for her oddball neighbor, is barely more than a spectator of her own colorless life... until she vanishes. Enigmatic graffiti, based on her missing person poster, suddenly decorate the walls of the suburban town, the result of two self-declared artists’ whimsical and random experiments. Meanwhile, a gang of giggling schoolgirls bring terror and violence to the streets, savagely assaulting random men, the same men who oppress girls like Haruko. Matsui Daigo's film throws many things in our direction: a vibrant protest against the oppression of women, a provocative pop-art manifesto, and the improbably touching story of a gone girl, all dexterously interleaved and stitched together.