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Next Blood Soaked Tokyo Gore Hero Is A Geisha Robot

admin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:16:45 +0000

Noboru Iguchi, of Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police fame, is following up his phallic-faced ladies with an army of robot geishas. But don’t worry, just because she’s proper doesn’t mean her face doesn’t turn into a buzz saw.

Thanks to Twitch for the tip and scoring the first look. It’s pretty amazing to think that a director’s whole style could be mechanical arms, blood, guts, and figuring out new and creative ways to shove things in his characters eyes. I believe that was fried shrimp eyes that we get a glimpse of in this trailer. Can’t wait to see more Iguchi.

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Hajirai Machine Girl Sequel Trailer!

admin — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:22:03 +0000

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. This short sequel is titled Hajirai Machine Girl and has a new girl take over the mantle from the previous film. It revolves around the character Yoshie as she must overcome her shyness to become the new Machine Girl.

Yeah I know, sounds a little strange but the good news is the good folks at TwitchFilm got their hands on the trailer for this new short film sequel and it is more of the rediculousness that the first film had. However, be warned that some people may find this new follow up a little on the tasteless side as one of the weapons…..well, lets just say it comes out of the body instead of being attached to it. Intrigued? Then check out the trailer for Hajirai Machine Girl below. It’s in Japanese so dont expect captions but it’s more Machine Girl mayhem to enjoy!

The 20-minute Hajirai Machine Girl short sequel is an added bonus feature to the new Japanese DVD release of the original film. No word on any release of this short film any other way other then as a Japanese DVD bonus feature. Also, keep your eyes peeled for more information as a full lenght sequel titled The Drill Bra Sisters is set to be made sometime soon.

(Hajirai Machine Girl trailer starts at about the 40 second mark)

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GUNNING FOR OUTRAGE

admin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:35:39 +0000

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 brother and his best pal?

So goes “The Machine Girl,” by Japanese schlockmeister Noboru Iguchi.

But there’s more: Nonstop violence, gallons of spurting blood, outrageous humor (a kitchen scene is a hoot), extreme vomiting, a drill bra, human sushi and tempura, and other perversity.

Iguchi, who has a well-deserved reputation for outrageousness, never allows this low-budgeter to take itself seriously. Viewers who take the same approach will have a kick-ass time – if they have a strong stomach, that is.

In Japanese, with English subtitles. Running time: 96 minutes. Not rated (violence)
V.A. MUSETTO

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Schlock horror: Tokyo Gore Police

admin — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:17:17 +0000

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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The Machine Girl (Kataude mashin gâru) (JP) (V)

admin — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:38:52 +0000

By: Joris Westerdaal

Thanks to Joris for sending in this review from the Amsterdam Film Festival

There’s nothing more liberating than watching a revenge movie. I just love the way these movies work. The story is simple, yet very engaging most of the times. Somebody gets treated inhumanely or gets pushed over the edge and starts taking right into their own hands by exacting cold blooded revenge on who ever has put them in these dire situations. THE MACHINE GIRL, by japanese director Noboru Iguchi, is no exception.

Ami and her younger brother Yu have no parents. They commited suicide from shame after falsely being accused of murder. Living alone now, Ami and Yu have sworn to never lose another loved one ever again so they never resort to violence and try to solve all their problems in a peacefull way, like their parents allways told them. Sho is the son of a Yakuza-clan leader and the leader of a gang of bullies who constantly terrorize poor Yu and his friend Takeshi. After Yu and Takeshi are murdered by the bullies Ami tries to investigate but gets attacked by the gang members’ parents who turn out to be even more sadistic than their offspring. Ami freaks out completely and swears to kill all of Yu’s enemies. This wont be easy because these Yakuza are members of the Hattori Hanzo ninja dynasty. Ami even loses one of her arms when she tries to attack the Yakuza home base. Barely alive she is taken in by Takeshi’s parents who happen to be mechanics. They fix her up with the perfect tool for pissed off, one armed school girls: an eight barreled machine gun prosthetic.

When I first heard of this movie I couldn’t help but immediately think of other films that use the same kind of gimmick (a body part thats transformed into a weapon) – like TETSUO or PLANET TERROR. Now that I have actually seen MACHINE GIRL it’s easy to say that this one is way different from those afforementioned two. The story is as simple as it gets and is only used as an excuse to get down to some serious blood-shedding. Most of the characters are totally over the top and unbelievable but still fun to watch. What really helps is that THE MACHINE GIRL herself (portrayed by Asami who is a popstar in her native country) is enjoyable and she looks great in that Japanese school uniform as well.

After a very bloody and disgusting opening sequence, which is a great introduction for the carnage that awaits, it took a bit too long for our leading lady to actually lose her arm and get her machine gun in my opinion. But as soon as Ami gains her machine gun arm the movie turns into the gorefest everybody expects it to be. And though the effects work at display never looks authentic it suits the cartoonish style of this movie just fine. Fountains of blood everywhere, people getting cut in two, decapitations, drillbra mayhem… it’s all in there. The only problem here is that the trailer spoiled a bit too much of the gory set pieces we get here, so if you haven’t seen it yet, I advise you to avoid it and let the movie surprise you.

There are some other minor flaws like some bad acting and poor dialogues, but the movie easilly overcomes its own flaws by never taking itself too serious. And though terribly sadistic things happen in this movie everything is so over the top insane that it had me laughing out loud many times over these atrocities like the raping of a dead school girl. MACHINE GIRL isn’t a revenge flick like KILL BILL, which leaves plenty of room for character development, this one can easilly go without any character development… just tell the story and let the mayhem begin.

This really is a perfect midnight movie; it’s simple, fast paced, funny and gory as hell. Invite some friends over, get drunk (or whatever) and let THE MACHINE GIRL lead you into a world of exploitation and bloody madness. I never saw any of Noboru Iguchi’s previous works but this weird little movie certainly made me curious. His next feature film “Tokyo Gore Police” is rumoured to be even more insane than this one so that certainly is something to look forward to.
Score: 8 / 10

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Deus Ex …. Machine Girl !!!!

admin — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:35:58 +0000

If you only see ONE outrageously absurd and ridiculously over-the-top Asian splatter yarn this year – or even this lifetime, for that matter – you better make damn sure it’s Noboru Iguchi’s “The Machine Girl”! This stupendously demented piece of Japanese “Revengeploitaton” features king-size portions of all the regular and crowd-pleasing ingredients, like crazed stereotypical characters (Yakuzas, Ninjas, schoolgirls in uniform, …) and simplistic story lines, but it particularly specializes in extreme Magna-esquire gore and kitschy comedy. Beautiful and multi-talented schoolgirl Ami lives alone with her nerdy brother Yu since their parents committed suicide for falsely being accused of homicide. Ami protects her brother where she can, but she doesn’t know he and his friend Takashi are the main targets of youthful bullies with prominent Yakuza-parents. The boys get killed, but nobody wants to help Ami because of her notorious family history and her sole attempts to get revenge literally cost the poor girl an arm. She finally gets help from Takashi’s mourning parents, who also provide Ami with a machine-gun prosthesis. “Machine Girl” offers a wide selection of decapitations, dismemberment, close-up gunfire, stabbings, split-open skulls, chainsaw murders, fried limbs, slit throats, electrocutions, impalement and Samurai swashbuckling. Seen all of that before in other schlocky splatter fodder already? Well, yeah … but what about flying guillotines and drill bras? Most of the running time, the screen is literally colored red with gallons of fake blood and removed intestines, but the tone of the film continuously remains blackly comical and light-headed. The phenomenally berserk make-up effects, courtesy of Yoshihiro Nishimura, are often nauseating, but never truly offensive. “Machine Girl” definitely also stars a couple of ravishing and incredibly sexy Japanese actresses, like Ami, her partner in crime Miki and even the supremely bitchy Yakuza’s wife. The battle sequences at the beginning and in the garage, as well as the entire final showdown of course, simply have to be seen to be believed. This outrageously grotesque movie is well-made, well-acted and directed and indescribably entertaining.

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The MACHINE GIRL Arrives On DVD June 3rd!

admin — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 05:51:49 +0000

Not only does Noboru Iguchi’s Machine Girl arrive on DVD June 3rd but apparently she’s a cheap date, too, Amazon currently offering the disc for under fourteen bucks. Having seen the film I can say that, yes, this is every bit as crazy and chaotic as the trailer would lead you to expect. It is sheer low budget, exploitative, splattery madness. And a whole lot of fun. Check the trailer below the break if you need to refresh your memory.

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“The Machine Girl”: Upping the ante in machine-gun chic

admin — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:03:32 +0000

I can’t say that I really consider myself to be a trend-follower. Despite this, however, I’ve got my finger firmly on the pulse of everything that’s cool, hip and happening! I know all about what the kids are into these days, whether it’s invisible cola, pet rocks, or even the macarena. Because I care, I’d like to impart a bit of insight into the latest fad sweeping the globe: Replacing amputated limbs with firearms!

It all began during that magical era known as “last spring” when Rose McGowan … ahem … blasted her way onto the screen in Planet Terror, the Robert Rodriguez–helmed half of Grindhouse. As go-go dancer Cherry Darling, McGowan proved that there’s something oddly alluring about a gal blasting away at zombies with a machine gun that’s been crammed into her thigh. Who knew?
Upping the ante in machine-gun chic is the forthcoming Japanese flick The Machine Girl (Kataude mashin garu), a film that concerns a schoolgirl out for revenge when her family is killed (and her arm is amputated) by the Yakuza.
The Machine Girl has truly got it all: ninjas, sailor fuku school girls, revenge, Yakuza, flying guillotines, drill bras and, of course, the gatling gun arm. According to my calculations, those elements may add up to equal the best movie ever … and by “best movie ever,” I mean I made out with the trailer five times last night. See for yourself, though be warned: the trailer is over-the-top bloody and totally NSFW.

While I’ll be first in line for The Machine Girl, I would never condone such violence in real life. I mean, if my arm were ever chopped off by a clan of ninja Yakuza, I’d like to think that I’d rise above the notion of revenge. Instead of a Gatling gun, maybe I’d attach a Super Soaker to myself and spend my days watering gardens and cooling off the neighborhood children during the summer heat. You know, giving peace a chance and all that.

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The Machine Girl Trailer Download!!

admin — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:38:51 +0000

NOBORU IGUCHI’S
KATAUDE MASHIN GÂRU
『片腕マシンガール』
a.k.a. THE MACHINE GIRL

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DIRECTOR:
NOBORU IGUCHI (IGUCHI NOBORU)

SCREENWRITER:
NOBORU IGUCHI (IGUCHI NOBORU)

ACTION CHOREOGRAPHER:
YÛJI SHIMOMURA (SHIMOMURA YUUJI)

CAST:
MINASE YASHIRO (YASHIRO MINASE)
ASAMI (ASAMI)
HONOKA (HONOKA)
NORIKO KIJIMA (KIJIMA NORIKO)
KENTARÔ SHIMAZU (SHIMAZU KENTAROU)
TARÔ SUWA (SUWA TAROU)
NOBUHIRO NISHIHARA (NISHIHARA NOBUHIRO)
RYÔSUKE KAWAMURA (KAWAMURA RYOUSUKE)
YÛYA ISHIKAWA (ISHIKAWA YUUYA)
KENTARÔ KISHI (KISHI KENTAROU)
RYÔJI OKAMOTO (OKAMOTO RYOUJI)
DEMO TANAKA (DEMO TANAKA)
HIROKO YASHIKI (YASHIKI HIROKO)
ERIKA TERAJIMA (TERAJIMA ERIKA)

PRODUCTION COMPANIES:
FEVER DREAMS LLC
NIKKATSU CORPORATION (NIKKATSU K.K.)

INTERNATIONAL SALES AGENT:
NIKKATSU CORPORATION (NIKKATSU K.K.)
production stills courtesy of Yoshihiro Nishimura’s

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December 7: GORE POLICE pic, MACHINE GIRL trailer

admin — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:27:18 +0000

Carl Morano of Fever Dreams passed on the above costume/makeup test shot from the company’s latest project, tentatively titled TOKYO GORE POLICE. “It’s our next production to be shot entirely in Japan,” Morano tells Fango. “The film will be directed by special effects designer Yoshihiro [MEATBALL MACHINE] Nishimura, and is currently in preproduction, with shooting to begin in early 2008.” Plot details are currently under wraps, but that title is certainly enticing; look for more on the movie at this site in the near future.

In addition, Fever Dreams just unveiled the splatterific trailer for MACHINE GIRL, its previous Japan-lensed film, which we last reported on here. Noboru Iguchi wrote and directed this blood-drenched saga of a young girl who gets revenge on those who killed her brother and severed her arm, with the help of a machine gun attached where her limb once was. Check out the over-the-top preview below! —Michael Gingold

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