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At a nightclub, young Tsutomu is dressed up as a girl against his will
by his friends and passes out soon after - only to wake up in the Old West
soon afterwards, still dressed up as a (loose) woman. He makes it to the
next village, Crime City, a place that's entirely populated by girls, and
not only girls but catholic school girls, and run by nuns who treat the
place like a convent school and are man haters to an extent that they even
destroy pictures of men with a fury. Taking this into account, Tsutomu
thinks it best to not blow his female disguise. And because of that, he
soon gets a place at the convent school, but lives in constant fear of
being found out. When two nuns use their female charms though to lure Tsutomu
into a trap, he promptly falls for it, and is only saved by superheroine
Panty Mask, a bow-and-arrow carrying girl in underwear wearing leather
panties on her head to hide her identity. Tsutomu immediately falls in
love with Panty Mask, and when she shows up the next time to investigate
the weird nunnery, where a murder has just happened, he becomes her
assistant. The nuns of course hate Panty Mask and want to lure her into a
trap, but the students plan a revolt. Tsutomu meanwhile is convinced by
Reiko that it's best to flee the town altogether - with her in tow though,
because she has fallen in love with him. It's only when Tsutomu finds out
that all the girls have been taken prisoner by the nuns that he returns to
help - only to end up a captive himself. Enter Panty Mask though, who
takes care of all the nuns (with among other things a giant bow-and-arrow
on wheels), frees the girls, and finally reveals what everything was all
about: ice-cold lemonade (really), which the nuns kept in a Russian coffin
(it's like a Russian doll, only shaped in form of a coffin), but which
gets lost in the end ... Does above synopsis make any sense to
you? If not, I'm not a bit surprised, because the film doesn't, either -
but intentionally so, and that's the exact reason why it's so great,
because it's totally bonkers - and I haven't even told you about the
(intentionally) lazily conceived musical numbers and the song-and-dance
finale featuring a character in blackface yet, as well as an abundance of
surreal sight-gags and the like. I guess it's safe to say that this isn't
like anything you have seen before, it's really out of this world. Now
there's one film that definitely needs rediscovery on a broad level, even
if it was shot on video on a pittance. Highest recommendation! (I
might want to point out here though that despite the racy topic and Panty
Mask-creators predilection for raunchy stuff, there is no nudity
in this film.)
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