VIZ Shows ‘STELLAAA’– Err, ‘MAIKO HAAAAN!!!’
(If you didn’t catch the Streetcar Named Desire reference in the title, you’ll make me cry and feel old. Just sayin’.)
Anyway, VIZ has sent out a press release announcing that they’re screening the slapstick geisha comedy (no, seriously!) Maiko Haaaan!!! in New York, L.A., and…woot, Seattle! Looks like I’ll be making the ol’ 3-hour trek up this May.
The film is in New York right now through the 24th, at the ImaginAsian Theater. In L.A. it’ll screen from May 23rd through the 29th at the ImaginAsian Center, and Seattle will have it from May 2nd-8th. Which luckily happens to be a time I’m NOT travelling anywhere else. Yay!
The film, which was written by Kankuro Kudo (who also wrote VIZ Pictures’ Ping Pong, Media Blasters’(/Tokyo Shock’s) Yaji and Kita: the Midnight Pilgrims, and Takashi Miike’s Zebraman), features a Maiko otaku, obsessed with the apprentice geisha who are so rare these days. He dumps his girlfriend so he can try to find a Maiko to romance, leading the girlfriend to try and become a Maiko and other various hijinks ensue. You can check out a trailer at the film’s official English website.
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