
A Futile and Stupid Gesture(2018)
In a life full of triumph and failure, "National Lampoon" co-founder Doug Kenney built a comedy empire, molding pop culture in the 1970s.



Haruka Imou
Kaori Igarashi (Idol era)

Chika Uchida
Yuko Kanzaki

An Ogawa
Yuko Kanzaki (Idol era)

Wakana Matsumoto
Aoi Nakagawa

Natsumi Okamoto
Aoi Nakagawa

Maho Yamada
Miki Fujitsuka

Kyoka Shibata
Miki Fujitsuka (Idol era)

Koron Mizuno
Kaori Igarashi

Kentaro Tamura
Koichi Matsumoto
Go to see Pinkerton is a comedy, drama film released in 2018 exploring themes of chasing rainbows, group conflict, repeated gag. Directed by Yûichirô Sakashita, it stars Haruka Imou, Chika Uchida, An Ogawa. Yuko, a former leader of the five-member idol group Pinkerton, with the help of man named Matsumoto, tries to reunite the now-disbanded group.
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