is a Japanese comedy film directed by Nobuo Mizuta and released in 2007. Hitoshi Ueki made his final film appearance in this project.

Plot Kimihiko Onizuka (Sadao Abe) is a salaryman infatuated with maiko (apprentice geisha) and whose greatest goal in life is to play a party game called yakyuken with one. Upon being transferred to his company's Kyoto branch, he dumps his coworker girlfriend Fujiko (Kou Shibasaki) and makes his first ever visit to a geisha house. However, when the realization of Kimihiko's lifelong dream is rudely interrupted by a professional baseball star named Kiichiro Naito (Shinichi Tsutsumi), he vows revenge by becoming a pro baseball player himself. Meanwhile, Fujiko decides to become an apprentice geisha. A rivalry between Kimihiko and Naito ensues in which they try to out-do each other at baseball, K-1, cooking, acting and even politics.

Cast

Sadao Abe as Kimihiko Onizuka Shinichi Tsutsumi as Kiichiro Naito Kou Shibasaki as Fujiko Osawa Kotomi Kyono as Koume Hitoshi Ueki as Saito

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