Wonderful little movie that originally came out on video, but then due to it's success at Internation film festivals, it was re-released at the cinema.
It's a fantastic parody of the absurdities of fame and the media, about how a Weatherwoman becomes famous and powerful merely by showing a glimpse of her panties during her broadcast.
Apart from exploring this aspect and poking fun at the fame system, and how stupid fame is and how absurdly it can be achieved, it's story revolves around the Weatherwoman displaced by the panty flasher, the Western educated daughter of the Network Chairman (who wants control of the Network for herself) and their scheme to get rid of her - which involves - I kid you not - making the ex-weatherwoman the naked sex slave of the panty flashing one, and secretly filming their lesbian romps for airing (!!)
The "climax" (in the non-sexual sense) involves the maga-esque duel between the Chairman's daughter and the panty flasher, who both use their magical weather controlling powers against each other in a live battle to the death !
Excellent film ! Insightful, clever, surreal and sexy !
Kei Mizutani as the voluptuous, sexy, power crazed, fame hungry, Weatherwoman of the title proves that beautiful former models really CAN act, she's a real star !
Trivia Item: Saori Taira, who plays the displaced Weatherwoman, was famous in real life because she insured her breasts for $1 million (making her the ideal person to act in a movie about the absurdities of "fame")
It's a fantastic parody of the absurdities of fame and the media, about how a Weatherwoman becomes famous and powerful merely by showing a glimpse of her panties during her broadcast.
Apart from exploring this aspect and poking fun at the fame system, and how stupid fame is and how absurdly it can be achieved, it's story revolves around the Weatherwoman displaced by the panty flasher, the Western educated daughter of the Network Chairman (who wants control of the Network for herself) and their scheme to get rid of her - which involves - I kid you not - making the ex-weatherwoman the naked sex slave of the panty flashing one, and secretly filming their lesbian romps for airing (!!)
The "climax" (in the non-sexual sense) involves the maga-esque duel between the Chairman's daughter and the panty flasher, who both use their magical weather controlling powers against each other in a live battle to the death !
Excellent film ! Insightful, clever, surreal and sexy !
Kei Mizutani as the voluptuous, sexy, power crazed, fame hungry, Weatherwoman of the title proves that beautiful former models really CAN act, she's a real star !
Trivia Item: Saori Taira, who plays the displaced Weatherwoman, was famous in real life because she insured her breasts for $1 million (making her the ideal person to act in a movie about the absurdities of "fame")