Be My Guest, Be My Baby (2024)

Interesting facts

Be My Guest, Be My Baby is a 2024 Japanese romantic comedy film directed by Mitsuhito Shiraha, starring Koki Maeda and Razel Ichimiya. An adaptation of the Kosho Nakashima book The Sociology of Filipino Pub Women, it follows a graduate student doing research on female foreign workers in Japan as he falls in love with a Filipino pub hostess.

Production

On reading the non-fiction book The Sociology of Filipino Pub Women by Kosho Nakashima in 2018, filmmaker Mitsuhito Shiraha travelled to Nagoya to meet with Nakashima, hoping to adapt the book into a film. In writing the script, he aimed to adhere to the contents of the book largely. In August 2022, it was publicly announced that Shiraha was to direct a film adaptation of the book, starring Koki Maeda and Razel Ichimiya.

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