Kekkô Kamen (2004)

A school that teaches young boys and girls how to become famous anchorpeople in the media. But there is something strange going in this school. The facility takes a sick pride in handing ... See full summary »

Director:

Takafumi Nagamine

Writers:

Gô Nagai (manga) (as Gô Nagai), Yûki Okano (screenplay)

Stars:

Nao Eguchi, Kie Ikuta, Juri Inahara

Cast

Credited cast:
Nao Eguchi
Kie Ikuta	...	(as Moa Arimoto)
Juri Inahara	...	Mayumi Takahashi
Kenjirô Ishimaru	...	Vice Principal
Satoshi Izumi
Keiko Kubo
Gô Nagai	...	Teacher Nagal (as Gô Nagai)
Hiromi Nagayama
Shino Saitô	...	Keiko Natsuwata and Kekkô Kamen
Hideo Sako
Fang Suzuki	...	(as Suzuki Fangu)
Hiromitsu Suzuki	...	Mystery Principal
Ren Suzuki
Satoshi Wada
Nao Yuasa

Storyline

A school that teaches young boys and girls how to become famous anchorpeople in the media. But there is something strange going in this school. The facility takes a sick pride in handing our S & M style punishments to students for the most trivial things. But there is one among them, a hero that hides her face but bares everything else in the name of justice. Her name is Kekko Kamen, all know the legend of how Kekko Kamen defeated the evil Mangriffin in a local high school, but now she's back and out to stop the evil twisted fiends once again.

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Plot Keywords:

vagina | secret identity | female nudity | japanese | female hero | 

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Comedy

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Japan]

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

6 February 2004 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Kekko Kamen New

Filming Locations:

Japan

Company Credits

Production Co:

Art Port

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Followed by Kekkô Kamen: Surprise (2004)

User Reviews

Campy fun - naked heroine - could you ask for more?

I'll admit I picked this one up as a guilty pleasure – it's dumb and campy and cheap and every 13-year-old's wet dream but it's still a fair amount of fun. Kekko Kamen is a female super-heroine who rescues the abused girls of a draconian news announcer's finishing school. Thing is: she is completely naked except for a bright red, floppy-eared hood she covers her head with – which has a long cape-like sash that also tends to obligatorily obscure her region-of-hidden-delights. It's a comic book comedy for nerds (it is based on Japanese manga) whose heroine's attire may be the film's primary attraction – but even in its intentional inanity (at one point, a character convinces another to do something because "it is the right thing to do, and because it advances the plot…"), the story remains a lot of fun – like an old fashioned Republic serial, with Asians, and a cool pop theme song, and in color, and with no clothes. The film's low budget is also very noticeable, but the film's charming innocence (even in the fashion of a mostly naked protagonist) works in spite of that.