Bikini Samurai Girls vs Zombies!  Trailer for ONECHANBARA

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1. Ardvark 03/31/2008 @ 11:50am

   My inner adolescent is drooling, but my inner nerd says: “A lightsaber which bends?!?”.

2. acts268 03/31/2008 @ 12:56pm

   Why is it most japanese trailers feature some j-pop song that never comes close to matching what’s the trailer is about?  Ugh.  The movie looks more than a little over the top and ridiculous so it will probably be worth a look on dvd:)

3. abjectnuttiness 03/31/2008 @ 5:43pm

   Phew… you know, from the title alone, every fibre of being should be totally gunning for this movie.  But, between the teaser, the music I just heard, and cheese, I’m just not.

4. Caterpillar 03/31/2008 @ 6:31pm

   Unfortunately that looks horribly cheap and poorly made.

5. PhoneyB 03/31/2008 @ 8:12pm

   I’m getting really sick of computerized blood effects.  Didn’t like it in Zatoichi or Kiltro.  So I really hope this isn’t becoming a cost cutting trend.

6. quadshock 03/31/2008 @ 8:35pm

   acts268 I was about to ask something similar. Does every Japanese action movie trailer need to have a poppy rock song in the background? It’s cool once or twice, but it gets old fast.

7. MechaYakuza 04/01/2008 @ 5:42am

   hahaha! Nice! The CG gore looks hilariously awesome! I love the emotional strings at the end of the trailer. Good times. Hopefully it will have some practical gore effects too.

8. sarkoffagus 04/01/2008 @ 6:48am

   I concur with Al’s initial post. Gorgeous sword-toting ladies in bikinis killing zombies. Sounds pretty good to me.

9. M@rc 04/01/2008 @ 8:21am

   Looks like shit, but the ladies are hot.

10. Caterpillar 04/01/2008 @ 8:24am

    The fact is, computer generated gore is now much cheaper and much less time-consuming to create than doing practical effects on set. Your shooting schedule inevitably gets dragged out if you routinely spend half a day rigging tubes of blood and mounds of latex.

11. swampthing 04/01/2008 @ 9:05am

    The trailer for the game:
    http://www.revver.com/video/636884/one-chanbara-revolution-wii-japanese-trailer-2/

12. PhoneyB 04/01/2008 @ 8:05pm

    So that makes computers a sort of special or gore effects “crutch”.  That really makes me sad. Part of my love for Asian cinema comes from the respect I have for the sheer creativity of the filmmakers.  Restricted budgets never stopped these guys before.  They gave us wire fu and the arterial spray of many a Japanese movie.  I couldn’t imagine Ichi the Killer with computerized blood.  Computers are important to film effects, I know, but this really is ruining some otherwise fantastic films for me.

13. Buttsorz 04/02/2008 @ 1:39pm

    Oh how delightfully misogynistic the Japanese are, but they are this way for our benefit, so that makes it okay.

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