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Good things come to those who wait, or so they say, and our patience has just been rewarded with an exclusive first look at the trailer for Noboru Igushi’s Machine Girl. We’ve covered this one extensively over the past couple months, and for good reason. It brings together many of the key behind the scenes talents involved with cult Japanese titles like Death Trance and Meatball Machine and turns them loose on a revenge story revolving around a Japanese schoolgirl seeking revenge against the gang that tortured her brother to death and cost her her own arm. But no worries ... that arm has now been replaced by a high powered machine gun. A rough trailer was shown to visitors of the American Film Market but that cut wasn’t quite polished enough in the minds of the producers and so was never made available to the public. The first proper trailer was completed just yesterday and you’ll find it in the Twitch Video Player, embedded just below the break!
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Reader Comments
san ku kai 12/06/2007 @ 1:46pm
Wow ! :cool: Looks like the party is getting even better and better with each new info ...
This One-Armed Machine Girl ("Kataude mashin gâru") sure looks Well-Armed ...
in all kinds of places ...
zombeaner 12/06/2007 @ 2:44pm
Nice. I’m in.
Mack 12/06/2007 @ 2:49pm
Wow.
john 12/06/2007 @ 3:40pm
Looks great. Can’t wait.
SojoX 12/06/2007 @ 5:57pm
Damn....
MavisFan 12/06/2007 @ 6:50pm
f-ing bad ass
Caterpillar 12/06/2007 @ 7:07pm
Looks like the movie I KNOW WHO KILLED ME should have been.
Rhythm-X 12/06/2007 @ 7:27pm
Drill Bra. I approve.
Novastar 12/06/2007 @ 8:29pm
Coolness changed with some corny moments.Checking this movie is a must!
ChevalierAguila 12/06/2007 @ 10:49pm
For the look of this, i hope it’s cheesy fun instead of just cheesy but not fun at all.
logboy 12/07/2007 @ 1:28am
1. the film looks great, really great.
2. it’s a shame, with these embedded trailers, that we can’t also have a download to keep.
3. i’m not happy with the use of english in the trailer. i’ve seen it done before, so i know there’s sometimes the call for such things for sale pitching, but if i begin to sense an increasing trend in intentionally westernising the marketing and content of japanese films, i’ll suddenly go quite and not support them. i’m there for the idea of finding a way to access a foreign culture, but i’m not at all for the idea of diluting one for the sake of a sale to the other…
brbro4 12/07/2007 @ 11:57am
this is why i love the japanese. looks cool.
Arch Stanton 12/07/2007 @ 11:57am
DEAD-ALIVE , EVIL DEAD 2 and THE BABYCART films continue to make their presence felt, in a good way.This one looks like a lot of fun.
Ard Vijn 12/07/2007 @ 2:39pm
And I want that poster.
Todd Brown 12/07/2007 @ 4:23pm
This may have been produced in Japan but it’s financed largely with US money, Logboy, that’s why the English in the trailer. It was prepared by the people at Fever Dreams, which is a branch of Media Blasters.
Donwoo2 12/07/2007 @ 4:24pm
amazing. What’s Japanese for ‘Over the top?”
logboy 12/08/2007 @ 1:47am
well… USA money or not, i’m really not impressed by the idea of intentionally melding cultures directly - i stayed well away from MB’s last effort in that direction because of the level of influence money allows, but… i may have to take a certain amount of it in minimal doses for this and ‘kite liberator’, but once there’s a trend or a drift towards financing projects or if companies in japan take USA-based possitive reactions as a way of influencing their domestic markets opinions of their work, i’m not at all keen to be associated with something which is more negative than any remake i can think of.
tigrbalm 12/08/2007 @ 4:18am
Definite winner. I want the DVD, NOW.
san ku kai 12/08/2007 @ 6:41am
quote : [What’s Japanese for ‘Over the top?”]
Well, I would go for “kyookijimita” (きょうきじみた) (crazy) with
“kyôki"= wild, mad, excited with joy / extreme delight
“jimi"= a delicacy
“ta"= much, many, be thankfull for
That should cover it nicely
luisarriola2000 12/10/2007 @ 9:47pm
Can’t wait! Looking forward to Machine Girl, Machete, and Red Princess Blues!
Slimy 01/07/2008 @ 3:47pm
What the… This scenario is lame! I’m a little girl with a ordinary (that mean boring there) life that lose everything! Then, I get a surgery and I CAN kill everything! wich is okay cauz I suffered more than YOU guys! SO BANG BANG BANG!
...Grats girl! everything is dead, and WHAT ABOUT MEGAMAN! and Samus! You poser go to hell! I want a real megaman movie before that shit!
Slimy 01/07/2008 @ 3:49pm
...and another Army of darkness! With undead ninjas and a new, longer, noisier chainsaw at the top of the guys’arm!
Slimy 01/07/2008 @ 3:50pm
and why the ninjas didn’t cut off her legs! They could ahve made a tank with her!
Slimy 01/07/2008 @ 3:52pm
At least Quentin innovated with an AK-47 as a leg…
Slimy 01/07/2008 @ 3:54pm
Hey what about the bullets, they ripped intestines apparts and they installed her a system that transform the brocoli’s iron into bullet instead of shit?!
Slimy 01/07/2008 @ 3:59pm
Okay… I felt a bit overwhelmed there… I didnt look at all the trailer in fact, I could stand after the first 20 secs… BUT GOT! SHE DOES GET A CHAINSAW! Waw, and that guillotine! that really looks like quality plastic!
I’m I in a low budget movies forum?
Cauz if it is the case, i’m sorry about all what I wrote, its a must guys you’re right! More movies like that, more!
starr1114 05/19/2008 @ 5:54pm
more,more,and fucking more.a chick ,with metal razor tits ,violence and gore .adrenalin and estrogen. what a great combination.i love to see chicks kickn ass in a major way. a true asian cinema fan from new york city.also i hate the fact that the U.S.A. keeps remaking good asian films and messing them up.U.S.A FILMAKERS creativity and filmaking isnot all that good anymore.thats why they keep copying all the asian film classics.i will not support that.any way Asian Films Rule the World.