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Yoshihiro Nishimura’s latest gore-fest looks set to raise the bar in the exploitation market, with swords, cops and mutants galore

have to admit, a lot of the big 90s Japanese horror movies left me cold. You know the ones. Most of them were remade for the US market, and they often involved a vengeful spirit stalking the living through some piece of seemingly innocuous modern technology. Even the Ringu movies - which won a loyal cult following at home and abroad - just seemed a little dull and convoluted to me.

Which brings me to the latest slice of Japanese horror to hit our screens - the fantastically titled Tokyo Gore Police. Trailers for Yoshihiro Nishimura’s latest began to leak onto the internet in early May, via the always informative Twitch.net, and each successive trailer is serving to make this insane-looking exploitation flick seem more and more like essential viewing.

Obviously influenced by such low budget auteurs as Herschell Gordon Lewis (Blood Feast, The Gore Gore Girls), and
Andreas Schnaas (Violent Shit 1-4) - as well as seemingly taking some homegrown inspiration from the Yokai Monsters series - Tokyo Gore Police mixes cheap-looking gore effects, improbable plotting, and some breathtakingly imaginative creature effects. The plot (as described on the official site) revolves around Ruka, a samurai sword wielding female cop (played by Audition’s Eihi Shiina) and her attempts to track down Key Man, a mad scientist who has flooded Tokyo with all kinds of bizarre mutants. Ruka and Key Man, however, share a vendetta against the Tokyo Police, who murdered their respective fathers in the past. So we’re talking sword wielding cops, mad scientists, mutants and revenge. Sounds like a perfect Saturday night to me.

As with most films of this nature, the plot seems secondary to the visuals, and so far the trailers are promising us a slick, vile, silly and totally over the top feast for the eyes. Look out for the barmy crocodile woman in the second trailer. Tokyo Gore Police is the brainchild of the same team (director Nishimura and production company Fever Dreams) that gave the world the frankly astonishing Machine Girl. That one was the story of a schoolgirl who rebuilds herself as a cyborg assassin to take revenge on the yakuza who destroyed her life…

There is no official release date for Tokyo Gore Police, but already it is the talk of the horror movie fan sites. I’d say it’s about time to start drooling in anticipation now.

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It’s Five Minutes Of Madness In The TOKYO GORE POLICE Trailer!

Strap yourselves in, boys and girls, because things are about to get very, very bloody and very, very strange.

The creative team behind The Machine Girl is back together for Tokyo Gore Police, a cult action-horror starring Audition‘s Eihi Shiina as a cop forced to battle off a swarm of hideous mutants spawned by a man made virus. Machine Girl effects guru Yoshihiro Nishimura takes the helm for this one, working from a script by the writer Uzumaki while Versus star Tak Sakaguchi handles the action sequences, all of which means this thing has cult credentials like nobody’s business. What it also has is an unstoppable string of wildly over the top creature and gore effects washed down by buckets and buckets of blood.

If you’ve been waiting to get a look at this your wait is over. The first trailer debuted at the recent Yubari Fantastic Film Festival and the producers of the film have been kind enough to give Twitch an exclusive first look at that same trailer, all four minutes and forty nine seconds of it. It starts off fairly straight before building to a fever pitch and, good news for fans, as insane as this trailer is it doesn’t spoil the biggest shots of the film. Madness, I say. Madness.

You’ll find the trailer in the Twitch Player below the break, hit the link below for behind the scenes stills and watch for an interview with Nishimura in these pages soon.

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