Strap yourselves in, boys and girls, because things are about to get very, very bloody and very, very strange.
The creative team behind The Machine Girl is back together for Tokyo Gore Police, a cult action-horror starring Audition's Eihi Shiina as a cop forced to battle off a swarm of hideous mutants spawned by a man made virus. Machine Girl effects guru Yoshihiro Nishimura takes the helm for this one, working from a script by the writer Uzumaki while Versus star Tak Sakaguchi handles the action sequences, all of which means this thing has cult credentials like nobody's business. What it also has is an unstoppable string of wildly over the top creature and gore effects washed down by buckets and buckets of blood.
If you've been waiting to get a look at this your wait is over. The first trailer debuted at the recent Yubari Fantastic Film Festival and the producers of the film have been kind enough to give Twitch an exclusive first look at that same trailer, all four minutes and forty nine seconds of it. It starts off fairly straight before building to a fever pitch and, good news for fans, as insane as this trailer is it doesn't spoil the biggest shots of the film. Madness, I say. Madness.
You'll find the trailer in the Twitch Player below the break, hit the link below for behind the scenes stills and watch for an interview with Nishimura in these pages soon.
...Whoa.
lol, they put much emphacy on violence, dont they ? ;)
NIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE :)
I still can't get the smile off my face... This looks amazing beyond belief! The alligator girl! The girl with kitanas for arms and legs! :)
In my mind, this plays like a combination of Japanese combination of Matthew Barney and Early Peter Jackson
HOLY SHIT !!!
I think we just entered a golden era of Japanese retro-splatter madness here !
Meatball Machine wetted the appetite, Machine Girl kicked in the door and torched the place down with its charming hilarious gory fiesta, and this one seems to install a whole new and unholy temple of instant insanity and kinky fun.
... and I think the comparison with early Peter Jackson in terms of low budget imaginative gory fun isn't that far off actually ... combined with glorious vintage Japanese weirdorama of course ... Long Live the New Flesh !
I'm going for Mr bitter mode here, hehe, it looks good in parts, but other parts look cheesy and camp in the not-fun-but-actually-really-bad way.
Buuuut, it has Eihi Shiin, who seriously needs to appear in more films. So what the hell, i'm in.
Holy crap! You weren't kidding in the intro.
This plays like a hellacious fever dream!
Some of it looks ludicrous (which is always fun) and some of it downright nasty (also fun)! I totally agree with Kurt above, this mayhem would f-ing burn the house down if viewed in a room with a 1000 fans of the genre.
THAT would definitely be a fun evening wouldn't it?
I like the car.
Cool, the worldpremiere of TOKYO GORE POLICE is in Germany!! 9. Japanese Filmfest Hamburg 28.Mai-1.June 2008. You can see the infos here: www.nihonmedia.de
They are screening THE MACHINE GIRL, LOVE DEATH the long version!!, THE SHADOW SPIRIT, EAT AND RUN, MAIKO HAAAAN!!! an many others.
This trailer does not even begin show the awesomeness that it toyko gore police