[LIVE-ACTION] Cutie Honey [2004]

Titre: Cutie Honey (キューティーハニー)
Type: Film
Release date: 2004-05-29
Length: 93 minutes
Studio: Warner Brothers
Genre: Action, sci-fi, fantasy, comedy
Director: Hideaki Anno
Animation director: Sadashi Hiramatsu, Hiroyuki Imaishi
Action director: Kazuyoshi Yamada
Manufacture: Yoshiji Kaga, Tetsuya Kato
Producer: Morio Amagi, Moto Kawabata
Planning: Seiji Okuda, Tetsuya Nakajima
Original: Go Nagai
Scenario: Rumi Takahashi, Hideaki Anno
Cinematography: Kosuke Matsushima
SFX director: Makoto Kamiya
Special makeup: Tomo Haraguchi
Art: Takashi Sasaki
Edition: Hiroshi Okuda
Music director: Mikio Endo
Theme song: Kumi Koda
VFX supervisor: Atsunori Sato, Nobutaka Michiki
VFX producer: Tetsuo Oya
Character design: Katsuya Terada, Yutaka Izubuchi, Shinichi Sugimura, Moyoco Anno, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Illumination: Sosuke Yoshizumi
Decoration: Yuji Takamura
Martial arts instructor: Cynthia Luster
Audio recording: Yasuo Hashimoto, Mitsugu Shiratori
Scripter: Junko Kawashima
Sound effects: Shinichi Ito, Yoichi Nishimura
Assistant director: Hideo Mizumura
Director's assistant: Katsuro Onoe, Yuki Masa
Cast:

Eriko Sato - Cutie Honey / Honey Kisaragi

Mikako Ichikawa - Natsuko Aki

Jun Murakami - Seiji Hayami

Mitsuhiro Oikawa - Black Claw

Shie Kohinata - Cobalt Claw / Rinko Terada

Hairi Katagiri - Gold Claw

Mayumi Shintani - Scarlet Claw

Toru Tezuka - Butler

Eisuke Sasai - Sister Jill
Ryo Kase - Todoroki
Ryo Iwamatsu - Goki
Suzuki Matsuo - Head Supervisor
Kyusaku Shimada - Police Manager
Ryuhei Matsuda - NSA Client (Cameo appearance)
Masaki Kyomoto - Ryo Utsugi (Special appearance)
Hideko Yoshida - Kyoko Onitani
Go Nagai - Man in car
Hideaki Anno - Office Worker (uncredited)

Trailer:

http://www.nipponcinema.com/trailers/cutie_honey_t2/

Opening:


Song:


Other:



Film:
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v4096259tWza9Sxb

Links:
http://www.vap.co.jp/cutiehoney/
http://starwars-ep2.hp.infoseek.co.jp/cutiehoney.htm
http://realguide.jp.real.com/context/cutie_honey/cutie_honey_sp.html
http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=241923
http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/2004/eb001970.htm
http://search.varietyjapan.com/moviedb/cinema_35851.html
http://www.gainaxpages.com/films/honey.php
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409860/
http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:319121
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutie_Honey_(film)
http://www.dvdanime.net/articleview.php?id=132
http://www.lovehkfilm.com/panasia/cutie_honey.htm
http://female.thedailymodel.com/eriko-sato/
http://www.hour.ca/film/film.aspx?iIDArticle=3530
http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/cutiehoney.shtml
http://moviecritic2000.blogspot.com/2007/07/cutie-honey.html
http://easternscreens.blogspot.com/2007/10/cutie-honey-japan-2004.html
http://www.nipponcinema.com/db/review/cutie_honey/
http://www.beyondhollywood.com/cutie-honey-2004-movie-review/
http://www.dreamlogic.net/archives/cutey-honey-review
http://eigagogo.free.fr/Critiques/cutey_honey.htm
http://www.fantastikasia.net/article.php3?id_article=839&id_rubrique=22
http://www.superheroeslives.com/internationals/cutie_honey_(2004).htm
http://www.asianfeast.org/recensioni/cutiehoney.htm
http://moura.jp/frames/report/031029/
http://moura.jp/liter/nagaigo/




VHS:
(ja) 2004-10-21


DVD:
(ja) 2004-05-26, Making of Cutie Honey


(ja)
2004-12-22; Cutie Honey Standard Edition


(ja)
2004-12-22, Cutie Honey Collector's Edition


(ja)
Rental edition


(us)
2007-04-17, Cutie Honey: The Movie


(us)
2007-04-17, Cutie Honey: The Movie (Live-Action) Limited Edition Lunch Box w/ Key Chain


(fr)
2007-07-12, Cutie Honey


(fr)
2008-06-08; Cutie Honey Le Film


(it)


(au)
2007-02-07


(th)
2007-09-18


I'd say that this is the best known live-action based on the work of Go Nagai since the film was released in DVD in several parts of the world. While I do not dislike it and in fact I enjoy it, I believe it is not quite as good as the Re: Cutie Honey which was released a few months after it. It is somehow disappointing that Sister Jill is characterized by a man. I personally prefer the TV series and Mike Hara as Honey, but this is still a good Cutie Honey film.

I still don't own this yet. Good movie though.