Maiko haaaan!!!
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- Movie: Maiko haaaan!!!
- Romaji: Maiko haaaan!!!
- Japanese: 舞妓Haaaan!!!
- Director: Nobuo Mizuta
- Writer: Kankuro Kudo
- Assistant Director: Masatoshi Kurakata
- Producer: Seiji Okuda, Takashi Kamikura
- Cinematographer: Osamu Fujiishi
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Issei Oda
- Release Date: June 16, 2007
- Runtime: 120 min.
- Studio: NTV
- Distributor: Toho
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Kimihiko is an ordinary office worker who works in a food company in Tokyo. He is normal in most ways, but one thing that is not normal about him is that…he is extremely fanatic for geisha girls! One day, a chance came his way. He got transferred to the Kyoto branch of his company! He dumped his girlfriend Fujiko and happily moved to Kyoto. The highest bar for entering a Geisha House is that the price is expensive, and there is a traditional unwritten rule of “No first-timers”. He worked really hard to earn money and somehow convinced his big boss to take him to a Geisha House.
He finally went into a Geisha House and was about to play the special geisha game he had dreamt of for a long time. Then suddenly, a professional baseball player, Naito, who was totally drunk, stormed into his room. Naito is a regular customer at the geisha house, and his social status and income are incomparably higher than Kimihiko’s. He said to Kimihiko “With money, I can do anything!” Kimihiko decided. “I will become a professional baseball player and get even with him!”
In Tokyo around the same time, Kimihiko’s ex-girlfriend Fujiko also made up her mind. “I will become a geisha girl in Kyoto!” People’s dreams, jealousy, pride etc…come and go in the geisha world… You never know what will happen next. A hilarious story now begins!
Notes
MAIKO is a Kyoto local way to call young Geisha who are basically under 20 years old. A MAIKO usually starts their career around 15-20 nowadays and becomes Geiko (Geisha) after 4 or 5 years.
Cast
- Sadao Abe - Kimihiko Onizuka
- Shin'ichi Tsutsumi - Kiichiro Naito (Pro Baseball Player)
- Kou Shibasaki - Fujiko Osawa
- Saori Koide - (Sister) Komako (Geisha)
- Kotomi Kyono - Koume (Geisha)
- Wakana Sakai - Mamefuku (Geisha)
- Shiro Ito - Suzuki Taikai (President of Suzuya Ramen)
- Miki Maya
- Takayuki Yamada - Student on field trip (cameo)
- Kazuko Yoshiyuki
- Katsumi Kiba
- Midoriko Kimura
- Kazuki Kitamura
- Katsuhisa Namase
- Koji Ookura
- Mr. Okure
- Kenta Suga - Camera boy
- Hatsuo Yamaya
- Mie Ohta
- Satoshi Hashimoto
- Takeshi Obayashi
- Nozomi Muraoka
