There are three big events coming up that you need to know about.

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First off, Hrithik Roshan is in town! Bollywood’s biggest star, the world’s most famous dancing fool, and the only celebrity with three thumbs, Hrithik will be here at 3:30pm on May 15 at the Big Cinemas, Manhattan, for an onstage interview and a screening of his film, KAHO NA PYAR HAI. You can win tickets here!

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It’s all a big promo push for his new movie KITES.

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Some tickets are still available for the ROBOGEISHA party and screening on Tuesday, May 18 at 7:30pm up at Japan Society. A special, pre-New York Asian Film Festival event, tickets are only $12 and you’ll get: ROBOGEISHA, the world’s weirdest movie; a party afterwards; special screenings of never-before-seen shorts and, hopefully, a live Skype Q&A with the director, Noboru Iguchi. Also, the New York Asian Film Festival Japanese line-up and guests will be revealed! Tickets are selling like ice water in Hell…hot, fast and furious. (more info) (the amazing ROBOGEISHA trailer) (buy tickets)

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RoboGeisha loves to kill with shrimp.

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Also at Japan Society, on Friday, May 14, is a double feature of samurai films that you won’t see anywhere else. At 6:30pm is THE LONE STALKER (aka LONE WOLF ISAZO) starring Raizo Ichikawa in a moody death spiral as he becomes a vengeance-obsessed swordsman in this 1968 classic. Then, at 8:30, is THE DEVIL’S TEMPLE, about a Buddhist monk and a fallen samurai (Shintaro Kagu) who encounter each other at a remote temple and lose their immortal souls! You wont get a chance to see these anywhere else, ever again!

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The Devil’s Temple. It doesn’t look that bad.

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Also playing: at the IFC Center, THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD is still paying tribute to the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone. Bong Joon-Ho’s grim, gothic thriller, MOTHER, is back for some encore screenings, and HOUSE, the 1977 Japanese cult classic is still playing midnights!

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MY NAME IS KHAN is playing at the Angelika Film Center, oddly enough.

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And Hrithik isn’t just in NYC at random. He’s here promoting his new movie, KITES, which opens at the Big Cinemas on 5/21 (tickets are on sale now). A week later, on 5/28, Brett “Rush Hour” Ratner’s re-edit of KITES will open in theaters across America. I strongly advise you to check out the original if you’re interested in seeing this movie – romance isn’t one of Ratner’s strong suites (AFTER THE SUNSET, anyone?) In the meantime, Big Cinemas are showing the non-Bollywood movie LBS. which was shot in 2004.

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