Synopsis
A live action film based on the same titled manga by NAGAI Go, and directed by ANNO Hideaki of Shin Seiki Evangelion. The original manga of NAGAI Go focuses on the sexual code and hard core violence, but with several animation works, it has been transformed as a bubbly magical girl series. Cutie Honey is considered to be produced under the similar condition. However, the movie is influenced much more by the animation of Re : Cutie Honey produced by ANNO Hideaki in the same period. Cutie Honey deals with the revenge story of Honey, an android who lost her father by the "Panther Claw" Organization which wants to obtain the " I system" which is also called as the Air Element System. In this movie, the audience can find "Anno style" transforming magical girl series breaking from the traditional rules of the genre. Intentional criticism and mockery at the existing transforming magical girl series and buxom pretty girl animation reveal in some parts of the film. By using such an intentional critique along with his animation Re : Cutie Honey, ANNO shows his own interpretation of the genre. In addition, as an animator, he tries to display an experimental live action film with this film, different from his previous live action films dealing with serious subjects such as Love and Pop and Shiki-Jitsu. By applying the principles of movement in animation to live action films, the director himself coins the word of "Honeymation («Ï«Ë«á-«·«ç«ó)" and indirectly makes fun of the visual boundary among the live action film, the cartoon, and the animation. (HAN Tae Sik)