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
Above is a sales poster for Noboru Iguchi‘s The Machine Girl (Kataude mashin gâru). Distribution rights for the movie – a Fever Dreams LLC (U.S.) production – are to be offered for sale by Nikkatsu Corporation (Nikkatsu K.K.) at this year’s American Film Market (AFM) in Santa Monica, California.
The screenplay for The Machine Girl was written by Iguchi. The movie stars Minase Yashiro and Asami. Yoshihiro Nishimura and his company Nishimura Motion Picture Model Makers Group (Y.K. Nishimura Eizô) – “NMPMMG” for short – were responsible for the movie’s special effects, special make-up effects, and molds. Yûji Shimomura was its action choreographer. (Shimomura himself directed Death Trance.)
Here’s a synopsis for The Machine Girl from the Fangoria article “Fever Dreams returns to Japan for MACHINE GIRL”: “[The Machine Girl] is about a teenager named Ami who sets out for revenge on a gang of bullies who tortured her little brother to death. She winds up losing an arm along the way, and replaces it with a high-powered gun, à la Rose McGowan in Grindhouse. But she doesn’t stop at one limb; Ami continues to lose body parts and replac[e] them with more weapons [apparently including a drill bra (doriru bura)].”
Iguchi’s previous directing credits include Cat-Eyed Boy (Nekome kozô), Manji, Sukeban Boy (Oira sukeban), Snake Girl (Madara no shôjo), Saishû seiki! Natsume Nana – kyûkyoku no erosu, Impolite Education (18-kin – abunai kankei: the kinshinsôkan), and A Larva to Love (Koi suru yôchû).
NMPMMG: The Machine Girl (w/ stills)
AFM: The Machine Girl
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GOMORRAHY.com: Cat-Eyed Boy (w/ trailer, etc.)
GOMORRAHY.com: Manji (w/ trailer, etc.)
Sukeban Boy flyer (432 KB JPEG)
Sukeban Boy Japanese rental DVD cover (188 KB JPEG – viewer discretion is advised)
Snake Girl trailer (downloadable 5.6 MB MOV file)
Saishû seiki! Natsume Nana – kyûkyoku no erosu stills set (64 KB JPEG – viewer discretion is advised)
Saishû seiki! Natsume Nana – kyûkyoku no erosu Japanese sale DVD cover (128 KB JPEG – viewer discretion is advised)
GOMORRAHY.com: Trailer Park subsite (w/ trailer for A Larva to Love, etc.)
