http://www.machinegirl.net Kataude mashin gâru : Ninjas, tempura, sushi, flying guillotine, DRILL BRA…how can this movie fail? Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:02:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We mentioned quickly last night that Tokyo Gore Police director Yoshihiko Nishimura had mentioned that the next film from the crew behind Tokyo Gore Police and Machine Girl would be Drill Bra Sisters and we had the chance to ask Nishimura for a few more details today. The film ... http://www.machinegirl.net/2008/12/23/tokyo-gore-police-director-talks-drill-bra-sisters-and-ju-on/ So most of us are aware of the Japanese splatter film The Machine Girl. which was one of my Top Ten Favorites for 2008. However, what many of you probably dont know is that there is already a twenty minute short film sequel to the blood filled original. ... http://www.machinegirl.net/2008/12/23/hajirai-machine-girl-sequel-trailer/ We’ve been talking about it for a while now and now you can get a look for yourself: the trailer for Noboru Iguchi’s Hajirai Machine Girl has arrived. An ultra-low budget sequel to Iguchi’s already low budget cult hit The Machine Girl, this was prepared as a bonus ... http://www.machinegirl.net/2008/12/23/where%e2%80%99d-she-put-that-gun-a-trailer-for-noboru-iguchi%e2%80%99s-hajirai-machine-girl/ Variety Review of the machine girl Kataude mashin garu (Japan) A Fever Dreams presentation of a Tokyo Shock Original, Nikkatsu, Fever Dreams production. (International sales: Nikkatsu, Tokyo.) Produced by Yoko Hayama, Yoshinori Chiba, Satoshi Nakamura. Executive producer, John Sirabella. Directed, written by Noboru Iguchi. With: Minase Yashiro, Asami, Kentaro Shimazu, Honoha, Taro ... http://www.machinegirl.net/2008/10/04/schlocky-japanese-low-budgeter-the-machine-girl/ NY Post The machine girl Review ID you hear the one about the schoolgirl who loses her left arm in a fight with mobsters and has it replaced by an eight-barrel machine gun (shades of Rose McGowan in "Grindhouse"), which she uses to exact vengeance on the bullies who killed her ... http://www.machinegirl.net/2008/10/04/gunning-for-outrage/ Plot Details: This opinion reveals minor details about the movie''s plot. TokyoShock, the Asian exploitation branch of film distributors Media Blasters, has long been known for bringing quirky and crazy Japanese films to domestic audiences (my personal favorites being the three Misa Kuroi films that make up the Eko Eko Azarak ... http://www.machinegirl.net/2008/08/19/mike-brackens-full-review-machine-girl/ The near future. Tokyo’s police force has been privatized, the new private force authorized to execute justice on the spot. The officers are both hated and feared but are a necessity in a world plagued by ‘engineers’, mutant creatures that generate powerful weapons from any significant wound on ... http://www.machinegirl.net/2008/07/14/fantasia-report-tokyo-gore-police-review/ One-armed bandit: Machine Girl's Asami lost an arm in her battle against a shady ninja family, but that doesn't mean you should stand in the way of her quest for vengeance (witness the poor slob in the rear). Ho boy, are you ready for the nightmares? That's practically guaranteed this weekend ... http://www.machinegirl.net/2008/07/06/tokyo-gore-police-machine-girl-splash-down-at-hole-in-the-heads-finale/ 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 ... http://www.machinegirl.net/2008/06/20/schlock-horror-tokyo-gore-police/ The Machine Girl is one of those movies that is successful only because it tries to be bad. (Remember Snakes on a Plane?) Of course, that doesn't make it good. Ninjas, flying guillotines, drill bras, a girl with a machine gun for an arm -- how could you not want ... http://www.machinegirl.net/2008/06/20/another-the-machine-girl-movie-review/