I have no idea what happened to this guy but somehow it seems it got bored with the idea of making action-packed movies and instead opted out to make fully blown J-Dramas while pretending to make action movies or tokusatsus, like in this last offering of his. I'm fully sold on superhero tokusatsus with soap opera elements where the action is an equal part of the package together with well done romantic stuff like the Masterpieces with a capital M of the Maestro Toshiki Inoue or his daughter Akiko (at least when she's making at good job and not regurgitating the same old stuff from previous tokusatsu like in the last Gozyuger episodes), but this isn't that. In this failed attempt at making a Cutie Honey kind of superheroine, the action - the main attraction of tokusatsus - is sorely missing and most of the screentime is filled with soap opera a là Bold and Beautiful that, again, has its place in tokusatsus but not when it's not of particularly good quality to begin with and when 98% of the screentime is devoted to it while the action lasts for only a few seconds (and I literally mean for a few seconds, nothing more than that). This crap makes the mediocre (because of the director, not the writer) movie about the Mechanical Violator Hakaider or even the bad Riku Sanjo (an imitator of the Maestro, who is good only when it comes to serialization) Kamen Rider summer specials look like Japan Academy Film Prize movies! If you like your tokusatsus heavy on the romantic side but without forgetting the action, check out the toku Masterpieces of Inoue or Sanjo's Kamen Riders and Super Sentai and avoid this dreck at all costs. It's not worth it.
