Kataude mashin gâru (2008)

Director:

Noboru Iguchi

Writer:

Noboru Iguchi (writer)

Release Date:

23 May 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller

Plot:

Ami is a typical college girl. She's bright, friendly, popular and athletic, with nothing to set her...

Plot Keywords:

Splatter | Slap | Forest | Parents | Wife

Cast

Minase Yashiro	...	Ami Hyuga
Asami	...	Miki
Kentaro Shimazu	...	Ryuji Kimura (as Kentarô Shimazu)
Honoka	...	Violet Kimura
Nobuhiro Nishihara	...	Sho Kimura
Yûya Ishikawa	...	Suguru Sugihara
Ryôsuke Kawamura	...	Yu Hyuga
Demo Tanaka	...	Kaneko Yaksa
Nahana	...	Masako Fujii
Taro Suwa	...	Yaksa (as Tarô Suwa)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Noriko Kijima
Kentaro Kishi		(as Kentarô Kishi)
Ryôji Okamoto		(as Ryôji Okamoto)
Erika Terajima
Hiroko Yashiki

Also Known As:

The Machine Girl (International: English title) (USA)
The One-Armed Machine Girl (International: English title) (literal title)

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

USA | Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Certification:

Chile:18 | Peru:18 | USA:NC-17 | Hong Kong:III | Spain:18

Filming Locations:

Japan

Company:

Fever Dreams

Goofs:

Continuity: Takashi's father is hit by some shuriken, and parallel wounds are shown across his face. The next show shows the wounds with the bottom one slanted up to meet the top one at one side of the face.

Deus Ex …. Machine Girl !!!!

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.