[ via Anime News Network ] The San Francisco Asian Film Festival’s showing the live action adaptation of the manga Cutie Honey this Saturday and Sunday. And the Festival got a subtitled print!
The story: girl dies, resurrected with nanotechnology but no memories, and avenges father against sundry villains. It’s camp, but fun. Oh, and there’s that fan service thing.
Director/Writer Hideaki Anno‘s known for the-end-of-everything-as-we-know’t epic Neon Genesis Evangelion and the frenetic shoju comedy His and Her Circumstances, but he’s stopped directing anime. He’s not averse to genre movies.
The movie site (Japanese) is all Flash, so you can’t machine translate it. Note to Flash developers: translation and localization is a good thing.
Daily Variety reviewed the movie last year [ subscription required.] Anime News Network reviews it as well.
Cynthia and I will go to the Sunday night show at the Castro.
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