Member daisho2004 Posted May 28, 2009 Member Share Posted May 28, 2009 Has anyone seen this movie if so how is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member bolofan Posted May 28, 2009 Member Share Posted May 28, 2009 I started watching it then lost interest after about 20 minutes. Its not too shit or anything just not to my taste. Seemed like a tacky live manga. I'm sure I'll get backlash for these comments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member froffeecoffee Posted May 29, 2009 Member Share Posted May 29, 2009 Too repetitive. Nothing much going on other than lots of blood-splattering, hacking, and weird characters. Without that it'd be even more boring. I know there will be some that do like it, but like bolofan it's pretty uninteresting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member kaleyboy Posted May 29, 2009 Member Share Posted May 29, 2009 It depends if you like very strange japanese movies. If you went straight from watching kung fu to watching this, you'd probably think WTF?!! However, I tend to watch a lot of weird japanese movies and I enjoyed it a lot, though my wife didn't care for it. It's directed by the guy who did special effects for Machine Girl and has a cameo by Tak Sakaguchi. It's very intense and insane, plot doesn't make much sense, but if you put your brain into neutral, you'll have a good time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Tosh Posted June 4, 2009 Member Share Posted June 4, 2009 I watched the trailer for this and some weird Japanese vampire movie, now while I love a good violent bloody movie they were so over the top it seemed cartoonish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DeathShrike Posted June 15, 2009 Member Share Posted June 15, 2009 I thought it was brilliant. Unlike Machine Girl (which I also enjoyed) it is not mindless gore. Though there is ENDLESS gore, there is also a lot of political satire bubbling under the surface, kind of like RoboCop in that way. Also I found the main character to be totally compelling. It's not a flawless piece, but is a work of art as much as exploitation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member GwaiLoMoFo Posted June 17, 2009 Member Share Posted June 17, 2009 I kinda thought it was blah, along the same lines as Machine Girl. Which I didnt care much for either. Entertaining at times, but as coffee said it gets repetitive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Rebornman Posted June 27, 2009 Member Share Posted June 27, 2009 i watched the entire movie in fast forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member kowloon Posted June 28, 2009 Member Share Posted June 28, 2009 POOR this movie don't like me. ^^^^^ MACHINE GIRL was better at 100% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member The Silver Fox Posted March 12, 2010 Member Share Posted March 12, 2010 I bought this DVD the other day. I'm kind of on the fence about it. The level of gore and bloodshed felt punishing after a while and the lack of substantial redeeming qualities in the main characters made me like the film less. Still, it was creative and some scenes are extremely well done and imaginative. It's like Cronenberg on a meth bender, highly disturbing but compelling as well.There is also some cutting(pun intended) social commentary that is great but the humour can't offset the dehumanizing,downer aspect of the film. If they had of cut half of the splatter and added a little more depth to the characters and perhaps added a more complex story, it could have been classic instead of what will probably be an underground film that has a very limited appeal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Neil Koch Posted April 2, 2010 Member Share Posted April 2, 2010 I think you're maybe taking the movie a bit too seriously. I got more of a "splatstick" horror/comedy ala Evil Dead 2 vibe and had a fun time with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted April 13, 2011 Moderator Share Posted April 13, 2011 I actually completely agree with this review. However I have to admit that perhaps I went into it with the wrong mind-set. I watched it at the time of it's release, when it was basically only the second entry into the new-wave gore/splatter cycle that Japan seems to be going through at the moment, hot on the heels of 'The Machine Girl'. 'The Machine Girl' was a completely tongue in cheek affair, also released in 2008, and at the time to see such ridiculously over the top splatter was indeed, for me and my firends over a few beers at least, completely hilarious and entertaining. Now the genre seems to be in a rather repatitive downturn, where all other aspects of a movie such as story, character, humor, and atmosphere are sidelined for how much gore and splatter can be crammed into a 90 minute run time. But regarding 'Tokyo Gore Police' itself, yes the movie is in fact a very downbeat and actually quite depressing story. The main characters father was killed when she was a child, and she's been inflicting self harm to herself ever since to deal with her inner pain. As soon as this is revealed early in the movie I realized this is not going to be a laugh-a-minute affair, and for that exact same reason I didn't really enjoy it's gloomy tone. Perhaps if I watch it again with the right attitude I could enjoy it more, but right now there are a million other movies I need to watch first! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member un-j Posted May 2, 2011 Member Share Posted May 2, 2011 Remember that Tokyo Gore Police was also partially a US production so I think this was partially made to give Japan-obssessed American what they think we want...if that makes sense! I saw the film in theaters with a double feature along with The Machine Girl. I admire it's outlandish rebelliousness and even childish nature, but I do not think I'd watch it again. It's really spastic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Takuma Posted June 10, 2011 Member Share Posted June 10, 2011 Remember that Tokyo Gore Police was also partially a US production Mainly, not partially. It's essentially a US film, produced and owned by Media Blasters. The Japanese (Nikkatsu and Yoshinori Chiba, who later became the boss of Nikkatsu's new Sushi Typhoon label) were involved as co-producers, but they don't own the film. Tokyo Gore Police is often mistakenly referred as Yoshihiro Nishimura's debut film. It's not. It's actually a loose remake of Nishimura's 1995 cyber punk gem Anatomia Extinction. Sadly, that film has never been released on dvd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member bigrogie Posted June 21, 2011 Member Share Posted June 21, 2011 This movie was silly and ridiculous. It almost doesn't seem like a movie but more of a gory make-up effects demo. I totally agree about the characters having no "character". Some very interesting "mutations" going on here. The lady with an alligator mouth for legs and the guy with the penis-cannon come to mind. Very weird... I agree. This movie is silly and ridiculous. It's just a display of free gore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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