Underplayed Gems

Be My Guest, Be My Baby (2024)

Be My Guest, Be My Baby poster
Original title
フィリピンパブ嬢の社会学
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 54m
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A graduate student conducts research on Filipino women working in Japanese pubs. He falls in love with a hostess, which complicates his academic study.

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What happens

Be My Guest, Be My Baby (Japanese: フィリピンパブ嬢の社会学) 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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