RoboGeisha
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| Directed by | Noboru Iguchi |
| Produced by | Yoshinori Chiba Yōko Hayama Satoshi Nakamura |
| Written by | Noboru Iguchi |
| Starring | Aya Kiguchi Hitomi Hasebe Takumi Saito Taro Shigaki |
| Narrated by | Aya Kiguchi |
| Music by | Yasuhiko Fukuda |
| Cinematography | Yasutaka Nagano |
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Kadokawa Pictures (Japan) Funimation (US) |
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101 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Budget | ¥19.2 million (approx. $250,000) |
| RoboGeisha Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | |
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| Soundtrack album by Yasuhiko Fukuda | |
| Released | September 30, 2009 |
| Recorded | 2009 |
| Genre | Soundtrack |
| Length | 71:55 |
| Label | DAIZ Inc. |
RoboGeisha (ロボゲイシャ?) is a 2009 Japanese sci-fi action B movie written and directed by Noboru Iguchi, visual effects directed by Tsuyoshi Kazuno, and special effects directed by Yoshihiro Nishimura. All three had previously worked together on The Machine Girl, and Nishimura worked on Tokyo Gore Police. The film premiered in theaters on October 3, 2009. The film's theme song is "Lost Control" by Art-School.
The film is about two sisters named Yoshie and Kikue Kasuga, Geishas who get abducted by a steel manufacturer in an attempt to transform them into murderous cyborg assassins.
The film starts out with an assassination attempt on a political candidate by a Geisha (that turns out to be a robot) and two scantily-clad women wearing Tengu/Goblin masks. The goblin-clad women violently (and phalically) take out the body guards (notably shooting shuriken out their butts) as the politician is menaced and wounded by the robot geisha who has a circular saw blade in her mouth. Suddenly, another person named Yoshie (Aya Kiguchi) appears, reveals herself as a robogeisha, and destroys the villainous robot.
We go back in time to see Yoshie as a servant for her sister Kikue (Hitomi Hasebe), who is a geisha in training. It is later revealed that the two sisters were orphaned, and though they used to be close (with Kikue being the favorite child), they are now enemies. Yoshie is klutzy and ruins Kikue's performance for Hikaru Kageno (Takumi Saito), heir to Kageno Steel Manufacturing. Despite her klutziness, Kageno is impressed with Yoshie's beauty, and becomes more interested when he witnesses her display of superhuman strength when threatened by Kikue.
Eventually, Kageno invites the two sisters to his house, where they are captured by the goblin ladies. The two are forced to fight to the death, and after Kikue wounds and actually threatens to kill her sister, Yoshie snaps and knocks out Kikue, once again displaying superhuman physical prowess. Accordingly, Kageno and his father begin training Yoshie to become an assassin for the company along with many other young Geisha-type women, and she quickly becomes the head assassin. They are told that Kageno Steel seeks to use them to kill terrorists and other national threats in an effort to create an "Ideal World". Kikue, meanwhile, is relegated to the role of servant to the organization.
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