Kaori Shimamura, Natsuki Ozawa, Nobuyuki Asano

Finally available in North America. Junk will satisfy all adrenaline junkies and horror aficionados that are looking for a good dose of spills and chills. A gang of thieves are on the run after a su...( read more  read more... )ccessful heist. They make a deal with the local yakuza to sell their stolen jewels at an abandoned army base. Little do they know the government has been experimenting on the dead. The dead rise and it's an all out war between the thieves, yakuza and the army, in a desperate attempt to not only stop the zombies but to stay alive.

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Unrated, 90 min.

Directed by: Atsushi Muroga

Release Date: January 22, 2000

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DVD Release Date: April 29, 2003

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  • July 3, 2009
    I like Junk: Shiryō-gari. Sure, it's extremely derivative stuff (female super-zombie aside, of course), but it has absolutely no pretensions, delivering fans of your more traditional shuffling undead all the gut-munching, brain-blasting action that they could ask for.

    The plot s...( read more)ees a gang of amateur jewel thieves (including sexy getaway driver Saki) bite off more than they can chew when they arrange their meeting with a Yakuza fence and his men at an abandoned factory: the derelict building is, in fact, a top secret army base where experiments in raising the dead have resulted in flesh-eating zombies, and it's not long before the criminals are fighting for their lives against hordes of mouldy walking cadavers.

    This weak set up is simply an excuse for a series of violent gun-fights and bloody encounters with manky zombies, so it is easy to forgive the silly script, many glaring plot-holes and terrible acting (particularly from a handful of westerners, playing US Army dudes). Director Atsushi Muroga (who also directed jewellery-heist-gone-wrong action flick Score) wisely keeps the action flowing thick and fast, and ensures that gore-hounds are kept happy with plenty of splattery effects.

    Eventually, things get very daft indeed, with the aforementioned super-zombie stealing the show in the film's finale: wearing thigh high kinky boots, this surprisingly sexy corpse runs rings around the surviving gang members, before being shot in the head. Unfortunately, this only makes matters worse: the she-zombie becomes even stronger (and, inexplicably, albino!), fighting on after having been completely cut in half!!!

    Cool, crazy, and covered in blood, this undemanding undead actioner is recommended to those who want to switch off their brain and simply enjoy some gory mayhem.
  • July 3, 2009
    Plot? A secret U.S. Army project inolving a high-tech cutting-edge experiment to re-animate dead Japanese people in an abandoned warehouse with a full working staff of two.

    Filled with many clichés and a high concentration of inconsistencies, such as zombies who can be stop...( read more)ped with bullets...and then they can't be....and then they can be. I've also learned that you can heal an open wound that's spraying blood just by having girls pour Evian directly to the injury.

    Well, at least the filmmakers got the title right.

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  • September 13, 2006
    Fun, exciting zombies vs. criminals film. Get some friends together, order some pizza, sit back and enjoy.
  • November 2, 2007
    Back in the day when there wasn't a new zombie film coming out every week I was waiting on seeing this anxiously. That probably added to the disappointment when it wasn't all that shit hot. I think I have an aversion to criminals being the heroes of horror movies, I more often ...( read more)than not despise movies like that. Even in movies I like with this scenario, From Dusk Til Dawn for example, I still don't really care about the scumbag protaganists.
    That being said, Junk starts out okay and gets steadily worse as it progresses. Maybe I was too optimistic since zombie movies were rare and I would enjoy it more now that they are a dime a dozen. Maybe I will watch it again and see.
  • April 15, 2009
    I bought this movie from a store, but it must be the wront region DVD as it doesnt play on anything. Will buy it again eventually.
  • November 23, 2008
    Apretty solid zombie flick that falls apart a little by the end. If you like zombie films though you owe it to your self.
  • April 10, 2008
    this movie actually sucks, but i put it on here because it's the only asian zombie movie that i've ever seen.
  • October 11, 2007
    GOOD JAP ZOMBIE/YAKUZA FLICK
  • May 25, 2007
    If Lucio Fulci ever made a zombie movie in Japan, it would've turned out like this!
  • May 22, 2007
    Just gritty zombie fun...

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