扶桑花女孩

1965年福岛县的煤矿小镇磐城，如今正面临着时代变革所带来的巨大冲击。石油能源逐渐成为主流，而煤资源则渐渐退出历史舞台。世代靠挖煤为生的磐城百姓开始感到生活的艰辛，镇上的煤矿相继关闭，失业不断增加。为了使小镇重新焕发活力，一个兴建“夏威夷娱乐中心”的计划旋即出炉。 　　世代 居住于此的女高中生纪美子（苍井优 饰）得知娱乐中心招聘草裙舞演员的消息后，和好友一同前来应聘。然而暴露的服装却吓退了很多保守纯朴的女孩，最终只有只有纪美子、早苗、初子和小百合四人留下。在来自东京的舞蹈老师平山圆香（松雪泰子 饰）的指导下，这几个没有任何基础的女孩顶住各方压力，为早日成为优秀的草裙舞女郎而刻苦学习……In 1965 the planned closing of a coal mine in Iwaki (northeastern Japan) will put 2,000 people out of work with devastating effects on the community. The mining company plans to build the Hawaiian Center to promote tourism, but the idea meets with resistance by the community's union families who boycott the effort. However, a few of the young women in Joban see the call for dancers to possibly provide a more promising future. Norio Yoshimoto is put in charge of organizing the center, with Madoka Hirayama, a professional dancer fleeing creditors in Tokyo hired to train the dancers. Kimiko, her friend Sanae, and Sayuri are amongst the handful first showing up for lessons but soon others join them. When Kimiko's mother, Chiyo, discovers that she has skipped school classes to learn dancing the two argue and Kimiko leaves home. Her brother Yojiro, one of the newly out of work miners, comes to be supportive of her dancing as he becomes protective of Madoka. The girls start to tour neighboring communities and dance to promote the center, getting more proficient in the process. After secretly seeing Kimiko practice, and how good she has become, Chiyo helps gather heaters to save palm trees imported from Taiwan from dying from the cold. Her change of heart as head of the union's woman's organization shifts the sympathies of the community as the opening of the center nears. Madoka has molded coal miner's daughters into professional dancers, and Kimiko performs a standout solo dance at the opening.