Instead of watching giant robots beating up on kaijuu or EVO streams I went to a screening of Hentai Kamen the live action movie. Let’s get it out of the way. The manga is about the story of a superhero who transforms into the namesake crusader when a pair of used panties are put on his face. In fact the entire series basically operates on the principle of perverted energy drives some kind of physical power. All the bad guys are somewhat … abnormal, to put it lightly, but the hero is worse than them.
There’s a lot of man flesh in this movie. Lots. But at the same time I think the style of perversion is dominated by the male state of mind, so it’s only fair I guess. The original work was serialized in the early 90s, after all. I have to say a big reason why I went to see it because I heard Quarkboy offhandedly recommended HK because he subbed the film, at least for the festival runs. And it was a good time.
At the Japan Society x NYAFF 2013 screening one of the staffer got on stage to introduce the film…and stripped down into Hentai Kamen cosplay. Well, he has balls, let’s just say.
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