Kyûtî Hanî (2004)

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Director:

Hideaki Anno

Writers:

Hideaki Anno (screenplay), Rumi Takahashi (screenplay),

Stars:

Eriko Satô, Mikako Ichikawa, Jun Murakami

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
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
Ryô Kase	...	Todoroki
Ryô Iwamatsu	...	Goki
Suzuki Matsuo	...	Head Supervisor
Kyûsaku Shimada	...	Police Manager
Ryûhei Matsuda	...	NSA Client
Masaki Kyômoto	...	Ryo Utsugi
Hideko Yoshida	...	Kyoko Onitani
Toru Tezuka	...	Butler (as Tooru Tezuka)

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

two word title | pink hair | live action | food in title | heroine | 

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Taglines:

Super cute and super fun.

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Genres:

Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi

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Details

Official Sites:

GAINAX [Japan]

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

29 May 2004 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Cutie Honey

Company Credits

Production Co:

Gainax, WOWOW

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Cutey Honey's creator, Go Nagai, has a cameo as the man sitting in the car Honey lands on after being thrown from the twister.

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Goofs

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.

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Crazy Credits

Outtakes and footage of the actors goofing off are shown during the credits.

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Connections

Referenced in Anime Abandon: New Cutey Honey (2013)

User Reviews

Super-cutie and super-silly

Saw Cutie Honey at the Leeds Film Festival on Saturday... not sure if James Maruyuma had been paying attention until the last half of the movie, because people breaking into song for no particular reason and "metaphysical" (actually psycho-sociological but nevermind) thoughts about love and opening your heart to people are there throughout. The film is 95% very very very silly, with a couple of curveball moments where things get a bit more serious, then right back into silliness and fluffiness again. The film is shot and edited in a very anime-esque way, with extensive use of CG to enhance the stylisation and "cartooniness" that's already quite abundant from the costumes and overacting. In fact, so much effort has been spent making the live action film feel like an animated film that one sometimes wonders why they didn't just animate it ;) The answer is, of course, the super-cuteness of Sato Eriko (though I was actually more partial to Ichikawa Mikako's super-repressed detective character, make of it what you will).

Overall, very very camp and silly fun with a fluffy message about the power of love n' stuff. Not the stuff classics are made of, but worth seeing if the opportunity arises.