Maiko Haaaan!!! - Slapstick comedy

Kimihiko Onizuka (Sadao Abe) is your typical, albeit eccentric, office drone. The one thing that sets him apart is his all-consuming obsession with geisha and maiko (geisha apprentices). His girlfriend, Fujiko (Kou Shibasaki), is madly in love with him, but her affection is one-sided; as soon as Kimihiko accepts a transfer to a dream job in Kyoto, he mercilessly dumps her and sets his sights on a glamorous new life spent relaxing with saké while viewing geisha performances.

Kimihiko’s eager plans to cavort with those of the floating world come to a screeching halt because he has no one to formally introduce him to the geisha community, as per custom. His last hope, in true salaryman samurai style, is to desperately prove his worth to his company in order to convince the geisha-pro CEO to let him come along on his teahouse visits. Meanwhile, the heartbroken Fujiko stumbles her way to Kyoto and enrolls in a geisha training school in an angry attempt to win Kimihiko back. As she soon debuts as the hottest maiko on the scene, she finds that she may have some competition among her fellow geisha as her former beau is causing many hearts to flutter.
This zany, colorful movie will keep you in hysterics between Abe’s Jerry Lewis-esque character acting and Shibasaki’s exaggerated physical comedy. The beautiful cinematography adds a dimension of reality to a Japanese subculture that few understand and even fewer see.

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