Kusei: Endangered Species

Overview

Directors Mayeda and Okimoto use regional humor to create this futuristic spoof of various modern-day Japanese American habits and traditions. In the film, a sansei (third generation Japanese American) beauty queen is knocked unconscious and awakens 250 years later to find herself the subject of a grand experiment to repopulate a new world of kusei — ninth generation Japanese Americans.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

February 20, 1986

Original language

English

Director

Karen Mayeda Vranek,Denise Okimoto

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt3976298