Release date in South Korea : 2004/08/06
Genre : Animation
Duration : 80min
Director : Ahn Tae-geun
Brief Synopsis :
Hammerboy (Mangchi) is a Korean animated feature film. It premiered at the Big Apple Anime Fest on August 30 2003, and went into wide release in South Korea on August 6, 2004.
The story is about a boy called Mangchi. He is small, but he possesses a magical hammer that helps him get around all his problems. He therefore got the nickname of "Hammerboy". Mangchi lives on a small distant island called Candlestick because everywhere else has turned into a wasteland because of some big catastrophe. When Princess Poplar from the kingdom of Jemius is being pursued by henchmen of the conspirator Moonk, Hammerboy sides with her, ready to unleash all his latent powers in order to save humankind
Note: the movie has scenes where the Hammerboy's penis appears. Some people believe that makes the Korean anime have some "spectre" of Shotacon.
Source http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr
