We can has more gory Japanese flicks! Yes, yes we can. Last week I got in the mail from good ol' Netflix another Tokyo Shock movie called Tokyo Gore Police and it didn't disappoint on any level.
TGP (wikilink) isn't going to win any Oscars and you're not going to watch it for its brilliant cinematography work or epic CGI work. No you're going to watch it so that you can laugh your ass off at how brilliantly bad and down right cartoonishly gory the movie is. If you've watched Machine Girl than you know what to expect going in. Cute Japanese girl has bad things done to her (in this case her Police officer father is killed) and she begins a life of revenge only to end up the Superpowered Monster that goes on some crazy ass killing spree that lives lots of bloody gory corpses behind. Complete with enough blood spray to paint a barn or two.
The good thing is that even though you are laughing at how bad both the acting can be at times and the so un-Hollywood cinematography and CGI the plot actually wasn't to bad and was pretty coherent for a change. I could almost see Hollywood actually wanting to remake this one since it had a decent plot to it.
If you saw Machine Girl and liked it then you'll of course like this one. However if you haven't seen Machine Girl but like really campy horror movies then I'd also think that you'd like it as well. If none of those are true odds are that you probably wont understand where its brilliance is and end up not liking it.
Are you like me and seen both films and want more? Well we're in luck actually because there is another movie from the same people called Meatball Machine that is also available and maybe even more Tokyo Gore Police in our future since the ending of pretty much promised it. The last thing I have to say about it is that while watching this film and laughing about it I completely forgot about my own troubles and that makes this a great film in my opinion. And the Japanese cuties aren't half bad either. Now I just need to watch Oneechanbara which has been sitting on the HDD for ever.
TGP (wikilink) isn't going to win any Oscars and you're not going to watch it for its brilliant cinematography work or epic CGI work. No you're going to watch it so that you can laugh your ass off at how brilliantly bad and down right cartoonishly gory the movie is. If you've watched Machine Girl than you know what to expect going in. Cute Japanese girl has bad things done to her (in this case her Police officer father is killed) and she begins a life of revenge only to end up the Superpowered Monster that goes on some crazy ass killing spree that lives lots of bloody gory corpses behind. Complete with enough blood spray to paint a barn or two.
The good thing is that even though you are laughing at how bad both the acting can be at times and the so un-Hollywood cinematography and CGI the plot actually wasn't to bad and was pretty coherent for a change. I could almost see Hollywood actually wanting to remake this one since it had a decent plot to it.
If you saw Machine Girl and liked it then you'll of course like this one. However if you haven't seen Machine Girl but like really campy horror movies then I'd also think that you'd like it as well. If none of those are true odds are that you probably wont understand where its brilliance is and end up not liking it.
Are you like me and seen both films and want more? Well we're in luck actually because there is another movie from the same people called Meatball Machine that is also available and maybe even more Tokyo Gore Police in our future since the ending of pretty much promised it. The last thing I have to say about it is that while watching this film and laughing about it I completely forgot about my own troubles and that makes this a great film in my opinion. And the Japanese cuties aren't half bad either. Now I just need to watch Oneechanbara which has been sitting on the HDD for ever.
