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'Swing Girls' director rewires his own comedy machine. The latest from writer-director Yaguchi Shinobu, who has produced a string of hits including Happy Flight with his unique viewpoint and outstanding comedic sensibility. Mickey Curtis (KAMIKAZE TAXI}), credited as Igarashi Shinjiro, gives a wonderful performance as a stubborn old man in his first starring role. Consumer electronics company employee Kobayashi (Hamada Gaku) is ordered to develop a bipedal robot, but fails miserably. He comes up with a plan to pass off a human in a suit as a robot, and finds an elderly man named Suzuki (Igarashi) who fits inside the suit perfectly, but... |
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| Screen Date | Friday 29 November 18:15 |
| Venue | The University of Auckland, Lecture Theatre 109-B28 |
| Director | Shinobu Yaguchi |
| Cast | Naoto Takenaka Yuriko Yoshitaka Takehiko Ono Micky Curtis Gaku Hamada |
| Website | ROBO-G Official Website ( Japanese) |
| Japanese with English subtitles | ||
2012| 111 min | Comedy |