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Hiroko Yashiki, Minase Yashiro, Asami

Ami is a typical college girl. She's bright, friendly, popular and athletic, with nothing to set her apart from other girls her age other than the fact that she is an orphan, left to care for her youn...( read more  read more... )ger brother after her father committed suicide after being falsely accused of murder. But while there is tragedy in their past, the siblings' future looks good, except for one thing. Ami's brother has racked up a considerable debt to another boy at school, and that boy just happens to be the heir to a clan of vicious ninja-yakuza. Ami's brother can't pay, violence breaks out and in the course of trying to avenge her brother, Ami is captured by the clan. They torture her and hack her arm right off. Ami escapes, barely alive, and is taken in by the owners of a machine shop who build her a customized, bullet-spewing arm. From that point, the quest for revenge is on in earnest.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 36 min.

Directed by: Noboru Iguchi

Release Date: May 23, 2008

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DVD Release Date: June 3, 2008

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  • binky013
    August 2, 2009
    binky013
    Wonderful. Definitely fits the label: So bad it's good. A must see.
  • bradwest
    March 22, 2009
    bradwest
    Well, this is so outlandish that you can't help but go to the Joe Bob Briggs school of reviewing for it. It's almost a Power Rangers episode filtered through, Shogun Assassin, Ichi the Killer, Army of Darkness and a touch of Tetsuo, the Iron Man. The plot is so simplistic yet mea...( read more)n spirited that Paul verhoven would be envious.

    I'm not sure you watch these things as much as you experience them. It's all about pushing the boundries of taste and black humor. I wouldn't confuse these with the early efforts of a maturing talent like Peter Jackson. This is Splatterpunk cinema for splatter's sake.
  • Stinger839
    March 5, 2009
    Stinger839
    Looks like I'm the only person on my friends' list this underwhelmed by this movie. Following Tokyo Gore Police may have effected my downgrading of Machine Girl's rating.

    This is a boring revenge flick that plays off comedic/cartoonish stylings as seen in Evil Dead. None of the ...( read more)gore is inventive - and gore action is the only thing this movie is about. Some of the fight scenes look like practice choreography instead of the filmed version.

    This movie wasn't terrible, and if you want action gore it may satisfy, but I didn't find anything unique or memorable in this one. Well, except the drill boobs.
  • kiriyamakazou
    January 1, 2009
    kiriyamakazou
    Fantastically insane. Marvel at the pure cinematic wonder of the "dril bra". Machine Girl is cheap and tacky, but to hilarious effect. The gore is surprisingly gross out but also very funny. Seeing somebody's face shot into a million pieces is just brilliant. The blood flows and ...( read more)the action is wonderfully exciting. Sure it's a tad insane, but it's the way it relishes it's basic idea and sees how far it can push it, that makes this film an absolute scream.
  • DrBenway
    November 6, 2008
    DrBenway
    Revenge is a dish best served with a prosthetic arm that's a machine gun in a movie whose over-the-top attitude reminds me of Story Of Ricky. Sadistic and hilarious.
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  • sephira081277
    October 14, 2009
    sephira081277
    its funny when its a funny gore splat slasher violent film with a well-endowed schoolgirl as the protogonist and yet , it gets more enjoyable the more they tried to be serious. a Gem. though b-rated movie. screw the rating and watch it anyway.
  • ElCochran90
    September 15, 2009
    ElCochran90
    OK, I accept it: The film is pretty funny, cartoonish and unrealistic. I got that that was the point. Even so, although it is pure gory entertainment, it sucks.

    The film begins like a typical nice Asian drama with inspiring and dramatic cute shots and sequences of a family, an...( read more)d what follows is just pure blood, dismemberments, guts, bizarre killings, a bloody torture scene, vomit, lots of fight scenes and a spectacular emphasis in torn-apart parts of the body, including HILARIOUS killings.

    This film is exactly what we would expect from another Tokyo Shock release. If you really want to have some good laughs (like in Versus) and an enormous amount of non-stop exaggerated violence and bullets coming out of a girl's dismembered arm, then Machine Girl is for you. If not, avoid it at all costs. It's mindless entertainment.

    55/100
  • VOS410
    September 14, 2009
    VOS410
    From the creators that brought "Tokyo Gore Police" to your home theater, take a look at the already R1 DVD arrival of "The Machine Girl", a totally twisted and non-stop action flick that'll leave you flooded to a warp of laughter.

    Directed by oboru Iguchi, this film packs a b...( read more)loody punch while at the same time introducing a lovely Japanese gravure idol by the name of Minase Yashiro who guns down - Japanese equivalent to the mafia - Yakuza perpetrators for nothing more and nothing less then indisputable retribution. Let us not forget Yoshihiro Nishimura for lending a hand with some outstanding pre-gore before his "Tokyo is Burning" sensation in the special effects division by slashing a finger or two along with body parts galore.

    Synopsis: The bleeding saga revolves around a young and endearing schoolgirl name Ami Hyuga (Yashiro) who enjoys playing B-Ball and taking care of her younger brother Yu Hyuga while having to cope with deceased parent's no longer held accountable. During after school hours, Yu and his friend face off with the son of Yakuza's head chief Sho Kimura to further pay off a debt that's in need of clearing up. When Yu's sisters life is threatened, he attempts to fight back despite being outnumbered by the spoiled brat's followers. To a surprise, Ami finds her brother lifeless on the floor next to his friend who happens to be the son of a female mechanic named Miki (Asami). Although Ami attempts to take revenge on her own, she is eventually confined to a Yakuza beating with a taste of torture and accidentally loosing half an arm. She finds a way to escape and puts her trust with Miki who seems to be taking things a bit on the serious side finding it hard to cope with the loss of her son that Ami had no control over, however, with little tension between Ami and Miki, they both find a way to work together for a possible backlash at those who destroyed their lives using hand-to-hand combat, a deadly chain saw and a pulsing machine gun comfy snuggled at Ami's arm for some blood-scoring hell.

    Not only does "The Machine Girl" show tough looking characters like Miki played by soft-core porn-star Asami and Hardcore Honoka who plays the violent Mrs. Kimura, but includes outstanding special effects production from Yoshihiro Nishimura's Nishimura Motion Picture Model Makers Group combined with some cleverly pasty cinematography making Minase Yashiro's sailor outfit notable along with all the blood-spray sticking out nicely created by Yasutaka Nagano who also did picture-making work for 2007 Tomie Vs. Tomie. Who could have guessed that a film audience would get to see a woman equipped with a Violet's secret deadly "Drill Bra" and a custom made Gatling gun shredding a human anatomy to bits, in any case, this film already seemed to have something going before cameras began rolling. In spite of all the blood-soaked allegory, it isn't just guts and gush.

    Much like what Quentin Tarantino did with his Kill Bill Volume where comedy elements were connected with most of its slaughter shots, the director creates far-fetched scenes regardless of its low-budget status. In one particular scene, Ami uses a human body as a conditioner spouting blood to lotion an individual's body while in the bathtub, hilarious yet disturbing at the same time. Additionally, there are humorous skits that don't involve blood, like Ami being trained by Miki in the same area during the same time frame showing her that she must be well fit and prepared to go up against the likes of Yakuza and ends up going from negative to positive while the sun is still up. By the time you reach the ending, it leads to a brutally yet funny finale that'll bond the Kimura's forever. Perhaps the acting from the cast is not to par, but in a film like this it merely gives dismissive appropriateness that is usually captured in most Japanese anime.

    Not everyone needs to know the background to take pleasure in this silly slasher picture, but for a gun-slinging demented schoolgirl, blowing heads and legs off brought to the silver screen is quite enjoyable enough.

    Look for The Machine Girl Remix as it features a second DVD of "Machine Girlite", a short spin-off with some overly hilarious scenes that'll extend your love for the world of The Machine Girl.
  • ristrawn
    September 2, 2009
    ristrawn
    ok revenge & lots of action...
  • carlitosjuarez
    September 2, 2009
    carlitosjuarez
    Más que genial, es totalmente alucinante y Kitsch!

    Machine Girl, quieres ser mi Novia?

    Jajaja!

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