UNDERCOVER Turns Its ‘UNDERMAN’ Mythology Into a Feature Film With ‘UNDERGIRL’
Jun Takahashi’s label revisits its 2011 fictional hero 15 years later for debut movie screening in Shibuya.
UNDERCOVER Turns Its ‘UNDERMAN’ Mythology Into a Feature Film With ‘UNDERGIRL’
Jun Takahashi’s label revisits its 2011 fictional hero 15 years later for debut movie screening in Shibuya.
Summary
UNDERCOVER is releasing UNDERGIRL, described as the first film from its UNDERCOVER PRODUCTION arm
The story picks up the world of UNDERMAN, the art book tied to the label's 2011 spring/summer collection, and follows a hero's daughter stepping into his role
A limited Shibuya screening run brings the roughly hour-long feature to audiences this September
UNDERCOVER is stepping into filmmaking with UNDERGIRL, billed as the debut movie from UNDERCOVER PRODUCTION. The project revives the fictional universe first laid out in UNDERMAN, the photo-and-graphic art book that accompanied the brand’s Spring/Summer 2011 collection, and reanimates it 15 years later as a 54-minute feature.
The narrative centers on Yuri Ibuki, the daughter of a hero named UNDERMAN who has long shouldered the sorrows of the city while protecting its people. When he vanishes without warning, a mysterious envoy called Kiko appears before Yuri and guides her toward an inescapable destiny: succeeding her father and becoming UNDERGIRL. The film follows her through the trials that transformation demands.
The production is led by UNDERCOVER PRODUCTION, a unit built around Jun Takahashi alongside Tetsuya Nagato, Katsuhide Morimoto and Taro Mizutani. Morimoto, a photographer and filmmaker, directs, while the screenplay was written jointly by Takahashi, Nagato, Morimoto and Mizutani. Takahashi additionally serves as executive producer.
The casting anchors the fiction with recognizable faces. Sena Nakajima plays the lead, Yuri Ibuki and UNDERGIRL, opposite Ryuhei Matsuda as UNDERMAN. Kiko Mizuhara, who appeared in the original 2011 UNDERMAN project, returns here, and Mitsuko Baisho joins as another key figure moving through the story.
UNDERGIRL screens at SPACE PART 3 by PARCO in Shibuya from September 14 through September 20, 2026, with weekday showings at 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and weekend showings at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Tickets are available from September 2 via the venue’s dedicated web page.
SPACE PART 3 by PARCO
7th floor, Shibuya Miba Building
Tokyo
