June 27th, 2009 – Six interlinked stories strung together by a common bond of self-loathing decadence, Lala Pipo is a seedy comedy about perverts, misanthropes and rejects. Author Hideo Okuda delivers detailed scenes of debauchery that are laugh out loud pathetic. Quick witted and fast paced, each of the stories is told from a different character’s perspective.

Renowned director/screenwriter Tetsuya Nakashima (Kamikaze Girls) adapts Okuda`s original by visualizing the sleaze and teen-spirit that Tokyo`s Shibuya ward is infamous for by focusing on a handful of the pathetic faces this neon lit loud district is built upon. His Lala Pipo takes viewers to the audition couches of the adult video industry, the karaoke boxes occupied by compensation daters, and to editorial offices of one Japan`s many Eros fiction publishers. Each world more disturbing and pitiful than the last, the tableau develops into a lucid paradigm of deviance.

The Lala Pipo movie will make it`s North American Premiere at New York`s IFC Center Cinemas Sunday June 28th at 10:30pm. Tickets are available at the Subway Cinema website (www.subwaycinema.com)

Hideo Okuda worked as a planner, copy writer and editor before making his literary debut in 1997. His second novel, Worst, became a bestseller. He steadily gained acclaim, winning the Oyabu Haruhiko Award for his book Annoyance in 2001. Three years later The Flying Trapeze won the Naoki Award—the Japanese equivalent of a Pulitzer. His books have continued to be successful, winning nominations for the Bookstore Awards and the Shibata Award in 2007. His stateside debut came in 2006 with In the Pool (Stone Bridge Press).