OH! Mikey coming to America

ADV Films has announced they've acquired the rights to two of my favorite cultural phenomena from Japan - the unfathomably surreal "mannequin drama" OH! Mikey (which they'll release in the U.S. as "The Fuccons"), and the unhinged late night sketch comedy show that spawned it, Vermilion Pleasure Night. Trust me, this is momentous news.

For those of you who haven't endured my import DVDs (or attended a Super Happy Fun Monkey Bash at the Alamo Drafthouse), OH! Mikey is a relentlessly psychotic spoof of '50s sitcoms, hypnotically chronicling the suburban adventures of a giddily white-bread American family living in Japan. The catch is that the entire series is exclusively and inexplicably cast with mannequins, resulting in a show that can readily drive unprepared viewers insane. I can't get enough of it.