Cotton Candy is a Canadian short film, directed by Roshell Bissett and released in 1997.
An exploration of the "Lolita complex" in Japanese society,[1] the film centres on Naomi (Yoko Higashi) a shy teenage girl in Tokyo, who goes downtown with her classmates and discovers an opportunity to profit from the common sexual fetish for young women in schoolgirl uniforms.
[3] The film was briefly the subject of controversy in 2000, when the Reform Party of Canada criticized a $500 travel grant that the Canada Council for the Arts had given Bissett to travel to a film festival where the film was screening.
[2] Bissett responded to the controversy by saying "We're always talking about creating Canadian culture and creating an identity separate from the United States and everything.
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