The Evening Of Asuka

The Evening Of Asuka is a 2017 WWE short directed by WWE Network and is a remake of a 1955 Merrie Melodies short.

Plot
A demolition worker finds Asuka in a box in the cornerstone of a building and sees her singing. Hoping for fame and fortune, he takes the empress to see a talent agent. However, Asuka won't sing in front of the agent. He then sees a theater for rent, takes out his life savings, and has Asuka sing on stage. Asuka keeps singing until the curtain opens, to which the audience boos when Asuka won't sing in front of them. Asuka paints the mask when nobody except its owner is around. As for the man, he is soon penniless and living on a park bench during a cold winter day. Asuka keeps performing for the man, and her painting is so creative and scary it attracts the attention of a policeman. When the cop demands to know what was all the noise, the man points to Asuka doing it. When the empress makes a feeble hello for the policeman, the cop arrests the man for disturbing the peace, whereupon he is remanded to a psychiatric hospital for attempting to blame it on the empress. Sometime later, the man is released. Broken by his feeble attempts at fame and fortune, the man regains his composure by putting the empress back in the box. The man passes by the construction site of the "Tregoweth Brown 40-Story Building", and entombs the empress by placing the box inside the new cornerstone which is soon sealed.

In 2056, the building is taken apart by a futuristic demolition worker who finds Asuka's box and hears the empress sing "Hello, My Baby" in Japanese. The 21st century construction worker starts thinking to himself about big bucks, and sneaks off with the empress's box.