Let’s Go, Jets! [BR-RIP]

Movie: Let’s Go, Jets! (English title) / Let’s Go, Jets! From Small Town Girls to U.S.Champions?! / Cheerdance (Japanese title)
Romaji: Chia☆Dan ~Joshi Kosei ga Chia Dansu de Zenbei Seiha Shichatta Honto no Hanashi~
Japanese: チア☆ダン～女子高生がチアダンスで全米制覇しちゃったホントの話～
Director: Hayato Kawai
Writer: Tamio Hayashi
Producer: Tamako Tsujimoto, Atsuyuki Shimoda
Cinematographer: Yasushi Hanamura
Release Date: March 11, 2017
Runtime: 121 min.
Genre: Dance / Competition / Women / Teen
Distributor: Toho
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

Hikari Tomonaga (Suzu Hirose) joins the cheerdance club at Fukui Chuo High School. She joins the club to impress Kosuke Yamashita (Mackenyu), whom she has known since junior high. The club itself was recently converted from a baton twirling club.

At the cheerdance club, Hikari Tomonaga meets Ayano Tamaki (Ayami Nakajo), Yui Kito (Hirona Yamazaki) and others. The girls enjoy dancing together as a unit, but they must endure their ultra-strict instructor Kaoruko Saotome (Yuki Amami) and her rules. Kaoruko Saotome announces that they will compete at the USA Cheerdance Championship.

Notes

Movie is based on the true story of the cheerleading club “JETS” from Fukui Commercial High School. They won a national competition in USA in 2009.
Some scenes were shot on location at San Diego University in California, USA during June, 2016.
Related titles (cheer dance club “Jets”):
1. Let’s Go, Jets! | Chia Dan ~Joshi Kosei ga Chia Dansu de Zenbei Seiha Shichatta Honto no Hanashi~ (2017)
2. We Are Rockets! | Chia Dan (TBS / 2018)