They'll take back your uncool heart to protect peace! One day cool director Piyoshi Kurosawa offers Phantomirage a sparkling big role! That's right, if this is the case, let's make everyone's heart flutter through the movie! However, Reverse Police's SakaSama found him! The director who is busy with the shoot is turned into an Ikenaier! With that, the movie will no longer be cool!
Direction
Miike somehow makes magical girls feel authentically dangerous.
Production
A movie-within-a-movie structure that actually works.
Costume
Transformation sequences with genuine craft.
Director
Takashi Miike
Minami Hishida
Sakurai Kokomi
Kira Yamaguchi
Asumi Saki
Toa Harada
Shizuki Yotsuba
Ran Ishii
Kureha Seira
Tsubasa Honda
Kumachii (voice)
Ryoka Minamide
Sakagami Fumiaki
Mandy Sekiguchi
Phandy
Akiyoshi Nakao
Kurosawa Piyoshi
Takafumi Imai
Umeno Minoru
Rina Yamaguchi
Shihara Sarai
Peey
Detective Abekobe
Takahiro Kuroishi
Officer Magyakku
Nicole Ishida
Chief Ganne
Dandy Sakano
Sakasama
Sasuke Otsuru
Yamanoi Ryuchiro
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Phantomirage was a Tsuburaya/OLM co-production aimed at young girls, making Miike's involvement a deliberate subversion of expectations.
The director character Piyoshi Kurosawa is named as a mashup of Takeshi Kitano (Beat Takeshi/Piyo-piyo) and Kiyoshi Kurosawa—Miike winking at his auteur peers.
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