is a Japanese

Cinema of Japan

The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world – as of 2009 the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. Movies have been produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen arrived...

 tokusatsu

Tokusatsu

is a Japanese term that applies to any live-action film or television drama that usually features superheroes and makes considerable use of special effects ....

 erotic-comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 film based in some works of Go Nagai

Go Nagai

, better known by the penname , is a Japanese manga artist and a prolific author of science fiction, fantasy, horror and erotica. He made his professional debut in 1967 with Meakashi Polikichi, but is best known for creating Cutie Honey, Devilman, and Mazinger Z in the 1970s. In 2005, he became a...

. Directed by Minoru Kawasaki

Minoru Kawasaki (film director)

, born 15 August 1958 is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and producer. He is known for his low budget, absurdist comedy films.Kawasaki began his career with some self-financed films, including Iko the Earth Patrol Girl, and manga to live action adaptions, before working on Ultraman Tiga...

, it was produced and distributed by Total Media Corporation (TMC), and released in 2004. The movie draws several elements from many works of Nagai, most prominently the characters Maboroshi Panty

Maboroshi Panty

is a Japanese manga created by Hiroshi Koenji and Go Nagai. The manga was originally serialized in the magazine Monthly Shōnen Jump by Shueisha. It is a parody of Maboroshi Tantei, just like Kekko Kamen is a parody of Gekko Kamen. And as a Kekko Kamen, the main heroine is almost nude , using a...

and Henchin Pokoider, but some others are also featured in the film such as Satan no Ashi no Tsume from Kekko Kamen

Kekko Kamen

is originally a shōnen manga series from Japanese creator Go Nagai, which spawned an OVA series and several live-action films. The manga series is about the misadventures of a student named Mayumi Takahashi who attends a boarding school called Toenail of Satan's Spartan Institute of Higher...

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External links

• Official website at TMC
• Nagai Go World: Maboroshi Panty VS Henchin Pokoider at allcinema
• Nagai Go World: Maboroshi Panty VS Henchin Pokoider at the Japanese Movie Database
  Japanese Movie Database
  The , commonly referred to as JMDB, is an online database of information about Japanese movies, actors, and production crew personnel. It is similar to the Internet Movie Database, but lists only those films originally released in Japan. The site was started in 1997, and contains movies from Meiji...
  
  
• Nagai Go World: Maboroshi Panty VS Henchin Pokoider at Superheroes Lives website