Kyûtî Hanî (2004)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Hideaki Anno

Writers:

Hideaki Anno (screenplay) &
Rumi Takahashi (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

29 May 2004 (Japan)

Genre:

Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Super cute and super fun.

Plot Keywords:

Martial Arts | Girl In Uniform | Super Power | Cyborg | Giant Tree

Cast

Eriko Satô	...	Honey Kisaragi / Cutie Honey
Mikako Ichikawa	...	Natsuko Aki
Jun Murakami	...	Seiji Hayami
Mitsuhiro Oikawa	...	Black Claw
Hairi Katagiri	...	Gold Claw
Sie Kohinata	...	Cobalt Claw / Rinko Terada
Mayumi Shintani	...	Scarlet Claw
Ryo Kase	...	Todoroki
Ryo Iwamatsu	...	Goki
Suzuki Matsuo	...	Head Supervisor
Kyusaku Shimada	...	Police Manager
Ryuhei Matsuda	...	NSA Client
Masaki Kyomoto	...	Ryo Utsugi
Hideko Yoshida	...	Kyoko Onitani
Toru Tezuka	...	Butler (as Tooru Tezuka)

Also Known As:

Cutie Honey
Cutie Honey: Live Action (USA)

Runtime:

Japan:94 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Certification:

Germany:16 | Australia:PG | Singapore:M18 (DVD rating) | Singapore:PG | UK:12

Company:

Gainax

Trivia:

Cameo: ['Go Nagai']The creator of Cutey Honey appears in a BMW which Honey lands on during her fight with Black Claw.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: The very prominent mustache of Sister Jill's right hand man is fake - in close up's you can clearly see the tape holding it to his upper lip.

Movie Connections:

Followed by Re: Cutie Honey (2004) (V)

I also Cutie Honey at the Leeds Film Festival...

And I agree with the other reviewer, i think James totally missed the point! The idea as far as I can tell was to make a live action anime, it was a parody not a serious movie. The way the characters are posed, in particular the journalist, and one scene where a character has a megaphone covering her mouth was a nod to the way animation is shot-ie exaggerated poses, and objects over mouths to save on animation costs.It was supposed to be a large poke of fun at the silliness of magic girl anime series and anime standards, like a live action version of excel saga! I enjoyed it greatly, and laughed the whole way through, i suppose if you have seen the original series its difficult not to get precious about it. But for someone who has watched a lot of anime, it was enjoyable for all the references to other series and the way a master of the medium can poke fun at his own creations.The performances were good and in a way perfectly studied, they all acted like anime characters, which was the point, Anno was having a dig at how simplistic a lot of characters in anime are and in particular female characters. I agree the end with Sister Jill was a bit sappy but again i thought he was trying to make a point about soppy endings to anime series, as well as obviously trying to fill his need to have some comment on human nature in all his productions! All in all a highly enjoyable film!