Shinobu Yaguchi’s new airline comedy. Coming out in Japan on November 15. 2008. For the first teaser, see this link. For the full trailer, see this link.

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Maybe I’m immature, but there’s just something about an unexpected punch in the face or kick to the head that’s undeniably amusing. The brand new Love Fight trailer has both, as you can see for yourself after the break.

The movie is based on a novel by Eri Makino called “Seibo Shojo”. Izuru Narushima (Midnight Eagle) directed and Takao Osawa (also Midnight Eagle) served the dual role of supporting actor and producer. The story involves a boy named Minoru (Kento Hayashi) who’s always been a bit of a weakling. Throughout his childhood his spunky female friend Aki (Kie Kitano) watched out for him and protected him from bullies. One day he meets Osawa’s character who trains him how to box. Then when he finally gets stronger than Aki she decides to take up boxing herself, which obviously drives him crazy. Predictably, the mutual boxing obsession brings up all sorts of strong new emotions between them.

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Minoru (Kento Hayashi) has spent most of his life being protected by his spunky female best friend Aki (Kie Kitano). Fed up. he decides to take up boxing. However, just as he manages to get stronger than Aki she becomes obsessed with boxing herself.

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Kazumi Nakamura (Mimura) has been fascinated by rakugo (comic, usually dirty story-telling) since her uncle took her to a performance as a young girl. When Kazumi graduates from university she joins that master’s rakugo school, but being a girl she is stuck in the job of curtain-raiser and has no hope of ever being taken seriously by her peers. However, another master of rakugo (Masahiko Tsugawa) takes her under his wing.

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Guilty pleasures don’t get much guiltier than Noboru Iguchi’s geeky 2006 fleshfest, Sukeban Boy. Iguchi, who’s sort of a 14-year-old trapped in an adult’s body, caters to a fanbase of likeminded otakus by putting out no-budget releases that incorporate elements from his porn background, goofy comedy, and copious amounts of gore. His cheaply produced, easy to market style of exploitation is probably the reason Fever Dreams/Media Blasters tapped him to direct their recent DVD hit, The Machine Girl, but if you really want to understand what the guy is about “Sukeban Boy” is probably a purer representation (i.e., free from the influence of US expectations).

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