Asian Film Festival of Dallas 2008

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 co-worker girlfriend, Fujiko, 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. Soon, an absurd rivalry between Kimihiko and Naito develops in which they try to outdo each other by becoming professional baseball players, K-1 fighters, chefs, actors and even politicians.