What a difference a vagina makes. After 8000 Miles became a hit, director Yu Irie decided to revisit it only this time he set his movie in Gunma Prefecture, next door to Saitama, and he made his aspiring rappers women. And with that simple change of gender, his story of wannabe gangstas using their rhyming skills to beat back the world, assumed heroic, heartbreaking proportions.

Ayumu (Maho Yamada) works all day in her family's konjack factory (a kind of vegetarian gelatin). The high point of her life was performing in an all-girl hip hop act, B-Hack, in high school, but now she's 27 and way too old for that kind of nonsense. Then Ikku and Tom (from 8000 Miles) come to pay their respects to the legendary dead Gunma DJ, Mr. TKD, and suddenly Ayumu's putting the band back together again. Mittsu (Sakura Ando, Love Exposure) is being crushed beneath her runaway mother's mountain of debts. Mamie (Kumiko Masuda) has become a local massage girl. Beyonce (Fumi Sakurai) is being forced to act normal now that her dad is running for mayor. These hip hop heroines have everything to lose: their boyfriends are embarrassed by their rap aspirations, their family obligations are huge and they’re constantly being told to sit down, shut up and act like ladies. But Ayumu won't be denied, and through sheer force of will she forges B-Hack into a weapon they use to beat back the bleak future that's waiting for them.

We were all supposed to grow up to be cooler adults than we are. Somewhere along the way life took over and before you know it we're knocked up, carrying debts, stuck in lame jobs, shadows of who thought we'd be. Life happens, and along the way you lose some people: they die, they drop out, they move away, they stop trying. But one day you look around and see that some are still standing with you. That’s your crew. They’ve got your back.