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Summary: A young boy's approximation of feminism.
Review: One is tempted to suspect the feminist credentials of any male director, especially in a film featuring graphic female ..., and a not-exactly-hostile-to-adolescent-male-fantasy bath scene complete with naked women, licking and a cute maid's outfit. Nevertheless, one must applaud Hosoyama's intentions - he far outstrips the similarly themed and styled 'To Die For' in terms of both visual imagination and ideological sympathy. What begins as a media satire turns into a gleefully bizarre S&M martial arts fantasy. The terms of the conflict are gendered - the sterile post-modern male world of the media and virtual reality; and the older female world of magic and nature. This tends to reinforce stereotypes, especially when the villainess is villified for wanting to be a man, but who cares when you're having this much fun.
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Summary: Fun, but ***ADULT*** Entertainment
Review: Other reviews did not quite prepare us for the content. We are
not prudes and generally are comfortable having our family
watch movies with some nudity, sex or even lightly suggestive
content. This one, however, was a bit much -> graphic visit
to the man who likes enemas (for example) Even if you are
rather liberal, you may not be comfortable watching this with
your kids.
Rating: 
Summary: High P/E
Review: The other reviews adequately describe what you can expect from this movie (especially the one-star review); but none seems to provide the prospective buyer with the P/E (Price-to-Entertainment) ratio for this movie. If Weather Woman had come on late-night cable television (in other words, if I had not paid any extra money to watch the movie), it would have been a hoot. After all, although puerile and fourth-rate, it is rather amusing. However, the $$$$ I paid for this movie was a sad waste of my money. I am now feeling quite stupid for ordering this movie - - - hope you will learn from my mistake and spend your money on a movie with a lower P/E.
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Summary: Bizarre, but full of fun and mild eroticism
Review: This film surprised me. I wasn't expecting much to begin with, even though the premise was bizarre but intriguing. (A woman becomes an international superstar as a weatherwoman because she shows her panties at the end of nightly newscasts.) So, the plot isn't Henry V, but that doesn't really matter in this movie. The plot, doesn't really drive the movie. It is the power of the scenes, and the anticipation of what are you going to see next. Toward the end, the movie gets a bit campy, but that's okay. Along the way, the viewer is taken on a what if? trip, one that is part eroticism, and part humor. I'm not quite sure which one of these, the movie tries to be, but it succeeds on both levels. If you still aren't convinced, at least see this movie for the protagonist(the weatherwoman), and her actions, her demeanor, and her ability to captivate those in the movie, as well as those in the viewing audience. She is at least worth the price of a rental. Be prepared though, this movie is quite strange, and defintely not for kids.
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Summary: Very sex-orientated, excellent!
Review: This film was fantastic
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Summary: Weather Woman No Flasher in the Pan
Review: This is a good, fun movie about a weather report woman who becomes an overnight sensation and boosts the station's ratings through the roof when, as a one-night substitute "o-tenki o-neesan" (weather woman) she flashes her panties at the end of the report. She becomes the usual weather woman, each night flashing her panties and raising ratings around the nation. The previous woman tries through devious means to get her job back, but is relegated instead to host "Hentai-san, konnichiwa!" (Hello, Perverts), and after an unfortunate enema experience, becomes the weather woman's personal maid. The station owner's daughter returns from (as she keeps reminding us) Paris, replete with an ever-present loaf of French bread, and turns the tables, becoming the new weather woman, leading to a climactic showdown. This movie has probably the finest songs and choreography ever done for a Japanese movie on the theme of meteorology. Add to that copious panty shots, female 'onani', and a welcomely gratuitous maid's soap-tongue bath, and you have a winner. Highly fun, amusing, satirical, and sexy, this is worth a watch. It is subtitled, which is as it should be. There is also an anime version, not quite the equal of this.
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Summary: Weather Woman No Flasher in the Pan
Review: This is a good, fun movie about a weather report woman who becomes an overnight sensation and boosts the station's ratings through the roof when, as a one-night substitute "o-tenki o-neesan" (weather woman) she flashes her panties at the end of the report. She becomes the usual weather woman, each night flashing her panties and raising ratings around the nation. The previous woman tries through devious means to get her job back, but is relegated instead to host "Hentai-san, konnichiwa!" (Hello, Perverts), and after an unfortunate enema experience, becomes the weather woman's personal maid. The station owner's daughter returns from (as she keeps reminding us) Paris, replete with an ever-present loaf of French bread, and turns the tables, becoming the new weather woman, leading to a climactic showdown. This movie has probably the finest songs and choreography ever done for a Japanese movie on the theme of meteorology. Add to that copious panty shots, female 'onani', and a welcomely gratuitous maid's soap-tongue bath, and you have a winner. Highly fun, amusing, satirical, and sexy, this is worth a watch. It is subtitled, which is as it should be. There is also an anime version, not quite the equal of this.
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Summary: Weather forecast for Today is sunny and funny
Review: Weather Woman is a film that makes your day sunny and funny. So buy it, enjoy it and have a nice sunny day with Kei Mizutani who is just the right sort of Japanese new face for the role: self-assured, half-naive and half-a-bitch. In order to enjoy the film, you have to accept and appreciate the Japanese sense of humour. I do, though I do not like the part on the interview of the pervert for the Hello Pervert TV Show hosted by the ex-weather girl kicked out by Mizutani. It is a film that shows we could still hold ourselves innocent and survive in a world full of perversion, disguise, hyprocrisy and treachery. As long as we could produce films like the Weather Woman, we could be safe from doomsday. Hilarious, loud, innocent and sexy. A special mix and a film genre classic. The low budget shows, though.
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Summary: Weather Woman and Weather Woman Returns.
Review: Weather Woman: The first DVD is great. Lots of humor, nudity, cussing, some violence and not a serious bone in its body. You'll laugh, you'll laugh so hard that you WILL cry. Weird, sexy and Kei Mizutani who knows what her character needs AND what her fans want. I give it five stars! Weather Woman Returns: The second movie has a slightly more serious plot, slightly more nudity (and sex), no violence and some parts that are not funny - I think they worked TOO hard on trying to make sense. Misa Aika is pretty and does swim about nude a lot, but she's no Kei Mizutani. I didn't laugh as much. I give it three stars. I would suggest getting Weather Woman by itself OR getting this collection if you can get it for less (in other words - used). Not much in the way of normal extras on the DVDs, but they also have DVD-ROMS features in the form of art, interviews and comics.
Rating:
Summary: Weather Woman and Weather Woman Returns.
Review: Weather Woman: The first DVD is great. Lots of humor, nudity, cussing, some violence and not a serious bone in its body. You'll laugh, you'll laugh so hard that you WILL cry. Weird, sexy and Kei Mizutani who knows what her character needs AND what her fans want. I give it five stars! Weather Woman Returns: The second movie has a slightly more serious plot, slightly more nudity (and sex), no violence and some parts that are not funny - I think they worked TOO hard on trying to make sense. Misa Aika is pretty and does swim about nude a lot, but she's no Kei Mizutani. I didn't laugh as much. I give it three stars. I would suggest getting Weather Woman by itself OR getting this collection if you can get it for less (in other words - used). Not much in the way of normal extras on the DVDs, but they also have DVD-ROMS features in the form of art, interviews and comics.
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