In a not-so-surprising move, UK label Cine-Asia will be releasing Noboru Iguchi's recent splatter comedy, RoboGeisha, on both R2 DVD and Blu-ray this summer.
Plot: Yoshie (Aya Kiguchi) lives a dark and neglected life at a geisha house, slaving away as an assistant to her older sister -- a beautiful geisha named Kikue (Hitomi Hasebe). One day, a wealthy client of Kikue's named Hikaru Kageno (Takumi Saitoh), heir to a powerful Iron manufacturing company, discovers that Yoshie is concealing her tremendous fighting ability. Soon, both Kikue and Yoshie are invited to Kageno headquarters, but find themselves kidnapped as part of a plot devised by Hikaru's father (Taro Shigaki) to transform geisha into deadly cyborg assassins.
Specs: Blu-ray region B (unconfirmed). Japanese audio with English subtitles. Features Tba.
Trailer:
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Plot: Yoshie (Aya Kiguchi) lives a dark and neglected life at a geisha house, slaving away as an assistant to her older sister -- a beautiful geisha named Kikue (Hitomi Hasebe). One day, a wealthy client of Kikue's named Hikaru Kageno (Takumi Saitoh), heir to a powerful Iron manufacturing company, discovers that Yoshie is concealing her tremendous fighting ability. Soon, both Kikue and Yoshie are invited to Kageno headquarters, but find themselves kidnapped as part of a plot devised by Hikaru's father (Taro Shigaki) to transform geisha into deadly cyborg assassins.
Specs: Blu-ray region B (unconfirmed). Japanese audio with English subtitles. Features Tba.
Trailer:
via 24Framespersecond.net...
- 3/22/2010
- Nippon Cinema
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