Mini-Moni the Movie: Okashi na Daibōken!

Mini-Moni the Movie: Okashi na Daibōken! (ミニモニ。じゃ ムービー お菓子な大冒険!, Mini-Moni ja Mūbī: Okashi na Daibōken!, lit. "Mini-Moni the Movie: The Great Sweets Adventure") is a 2002 Japanese film directed by Shinji Higuchi and starring the Japanese girl group Mini-Moni and Ai Takahashi as fictional versions of themselves. The film is part-CG and part live-action. The film was given a limited theatrical screening on December 14, 2002 and was shown as a double-feature alongside Koinu Dan no Monogatari, a film featuring other Hello! Project members.[1]

Mini-Moni the Movie: Okashi na Daibōken!
Cover of the Making of Okashi na Daibōken! DVD
Japaneseミニモニ。じゃ ムービー お菓子な大冒険!
HepburnMini-Moni ja Mūbī: Okashi na Daibōken!
Directed byShinji Higuchi
Produced byToshihiro Nakazawa
Written byYūko Nagata
Starring
Music byTsunku
CinematographySatoshi Murakawa
Edited byAtsuki Satō
Production
company
Distributed byShopro Entertainment
Release date
December 14, 2002
Running time
60 min.
LanguageJapanese

Plot

The Mini-Moni Café is run by Mari Yaguchi, with Mika Todd as its primary baker and Ai Kago and Nozomi Tsuji as its waitresses. One day, Kago and Tsuji serve Ai Takahashi, who wants to know its secret ingredient. When the waitresses explain they do not know, Takahashi decides to sneak into the café later to steal it. Meanwhile, Mika has prepared a large cake in the shape of a castle for the Mini-Moni Café's second anniversary party held the next day. The cake is stored in a refrigerated case, and alarms are also set to ensure the safety of the cake and the bakery.

Later that night, four servant fairies and their fairy queen (voiced by Yuko Nakazawa) sneak into the bakery and turn the cake castle into stone. The queen remains in the castle while the fairies proceed to change the rest of the pastries in the bakery to stone. In the meantime, Takahashi sneaks into the café, while Tsuji and Kago also trespass to steal some food. Tsuji and Kago accidentally activate the alarm, bringing Yaguchi and Mika into the kitchen and confusing the fairies. In the end, all of Mini-Moni and Takahashi get hit with fairy dust.

The team learns that the queen has taken over the cake castle and Yaguchi decides to go after her. They enlist the help of the fairies to bring them to the castle however upon arriving Mini-Moni gets captured and locked in the dungeon. Takahashi, who had tagged along, eluded capture however and manages to enlist the help of a talking refrigerator to help her free Mini-Moni. After Mini-Moni is freed, they go with Takahashi and the refrigerator to see the fairy queen. Along the way they encounter a large pastry monster and learn why the fairy queen wants to turn cakes to stone, is because if she eats them she will return to her short fairy body and she thinks her tall thin one is more beautiful. Eventually the team reaches the fairy queen and they all work together to make a cake that tastes so good that it would change the queens mind about cakes, which it does but it also reverses all of the magic the queen used up till now. However, since the spell is finally broken the castle begins to melt since it is no longer stone and it was not kept cold. With the help of the fairies and the refrigerator, Mini-Moni and Takahashi successfully escape the castle. When they reach the bakery floor everyone turn back to normal. Except the refrigerator which just becomes normal size and the fairies which turn into little children.

After comforting the children, Yaguchi leaves the bakery and returns with new uniforms for the other employees. She, however, announces that she is leaving the cafe to take care of the children, appointing Mika as her successor and giving the fourth uniform to Takahashi.

Cast

Soundtrack
Mini-Moni the Movie: Okashi na Daibōken! Original Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by
Various artists
ReleasedFebruary 19, 2003
GenreJ-pop
LabelZetima

Mini-Moni the Movie: Okashi na Daibōken! Original Soundtrack (ミニモニ。じゃムービーお菓子な大冒険！オリジナルサウンドトラック) was released February 19, 2003 under the Zetima label with the catalog number EPCE-5200, and peaked at number 46 on the Oricon sales charts.[2]

No.TitleLyricsMusicArrangementLength
1."Mini-Moni Town no Mini-Moni Café" (ミニモニ。タウンのミニモニ。カフェ lit. Mini-Moni Town's Mini-Moni Café)—TsunkuCher Watanabe 
2."Okashi Tsukutte Okkasi!" (お菓子つくっておっかすぃ～！; performed by Mini-Moni)TsunkuTsunkuCher Watanabe 
3."Watashi wa Kono Yo de Ichiban Bijin" (私はこの世で一番美人; performed by Yuko Nakazawa)TsunkuTsunkuCher Watanabe 
4."Mini-Moni Café de Daisōdō" (ミニモニ。カフェで大騒動)—Cher WatanabeCher Watanabe 
5."Mini-Moni no Dekkai Tabi" ((Remix for the Movie); ミニモニ。のでっかい旅(remix for じゃmovie); performed by Mini-Moni)TsunkuTsunkuTakao Konishi 
6."Joō-chama no Himitsu" (女王ちゃまのひみつ)—Cher WatanabeCher Watanabe 
7."Nakageline-jō ni Shinobikome!" (ナカジェリーヌ城にしのびこめ！)—Cher WatanabeCher Watanabe 
8."Kyōi no Reizōko Sono Na wa Reizō" (驚異の冷蔵庫・その名は冷蔵)—Cher WatanabeCher Watanabe 
9."Chika no Rōya kara Nigedasō" (地下の牢屋から逃げ出そう)—TsunkuCher Watanabe 
10."Suki Suki Kirai Kirai Suki" (すき・すき・きらい・きらい・すき; performed by Mini-Moni)TsunkuTsunkuTomoki Ishizuka 
11."Fushigi na Pocket" (ふしぎなポケット; performed by Ai Takahashi and Junpei Takiguchi (as Reizō))Michio MadoShigeru Watanabe  
12."Taose! Chou Cream Man" (たおせ！シュークリームマン)—Cher WatanabeCher Watanabe 
13."Kuzureyuku Nakageline-jō" (くずれゆくナカジェリーヌ城)—Cher WatanabeCher Watanabe 
14."Tadaima Mini-Moni Café" (ただいまミニモニ。カフェ)—TsunkuCher Watanabe 
15."Sayonara Mini-Moni Café" (さよならミニモニ。カフェ)—Cher WatanabeCher Watanabe 
16."Genki Jirushi no Ōmori Song" (げんき印の大盛りソング; performed by Mini-Moni, Ai Takahashi, and 4Kids)TsunkuTsunkuTakao Konishi 
17."Curtain Call" (カーテン・コール)—TsunkuTakao Konishi 

References
  1. "テレビ東京 CINEMA STREET / 仔犬ダンの物語/ミニモニTHEムービーお菓子な大冒険" (in Japanese). TV Tokyo. Retrieved 2017-06-20.
  2. "サントラ-リリース-ORICON STYLE ミュージック". Oricon.co.jp. 1999-02-22. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
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