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"Tarento" and gravure idol Aya Kiguchi, 23, will play the lead role in the movie "Robogeisha," directed by Noboru Iguchi and to be released in October.
In the movie, Kiguchi's character Yoshie is the younger sister and attendant of a geisha (Hitomi Hasegawa). One day, the sisters are invited to a dinner party by a customer, the son of the president of Kageno Iron Corporation (Takumi Saito). They are kidnapped and then trained to be assassins by the company president. Yoshie, who shows promise as an assassin, then begins to doubt the motives of the group.
The movie also stars Naoto Takenaka, 53, Matsuo Suzuki, 46, Etsuko Ikuta, 62, and Asami Kumakiri, 29.
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Crimsonsil
Not till after the article, but that trailer was hilarious. Especially the narrator.
Triumvere
Oh, she's a cyborg all right. Don't tell me you din't watch the trailer...
Nessie
Assassogeisha was deemed too "hip."
Yelena
Heart breaking! Is this kind of rubbish really interesting to anybody?
oberst
but can she dance ?
SpanishEyez37
Two words: ''Fried Shrimp''!
telecasterplayer
The looks to be beyond horrible..
OssanAmerica
haha- I just saw the youtube video and I can't stop laughing. Glad they seem to have brought back the steel claw guy from those three in Lone Wolf.
TokyoGas
I just checked youtube. 700k+ views and 1,800+ comments. WOW
TofuUnion
Did you check the number of comments on the trailer in Youtube ? Already more than 1800 !
Triumvere
Nanda kore?!
Ah, I see... It's the guy that did Machine Girl.
Shiro Robot FTW.
lonelyteardrops
I've just enjoyed the trailer.I think to make that kind of film is one of the most "luxury" way of using money. I'll see it on DVD...
SpanishEyez37
The trailer for ''RoboGeisha''has been playing on YouTube for a while now. It's hilarious! I can't wait to see it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo-gGes6qig
timeon
"tarento and gravure idol" = the recipe to becoming a great actress
ZetaSagittarii
In the true Japanese spirit of shortenings and concatenations, who knows? Maybe "robo" stands for "lobotomy"?
lonelyteardrops
Ha ha ha (Laughter)
bamboohat
Sounds like a Porno
wanderlust
Terminator-chan?
stirfry
wow...a "talento" as well as a "gravure idol"...she must be special...zzzzzzz
Crimsonsil
Wait, so she's not a robot? Just an assassin?