Arata Furuta, Erika Okuda, Harumi Sone

Fujio and Mitsuo always dream to go to Russia and become the strongest men in the field of jujutsu, a form of Japanese martial arts. Their lives turn upside down when zombies begin to walk down from M...( read more  read more... )ount Fuji. The zombies attack people and turn them into zombies themselves. Using jujutsu, Fujio and Mitsuo are determined to save Tokyo from zombie invasion!

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Unrated, 103 min.

Directed by: Sakichi Satô

Release Date: December 10, 2005

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DVD Release Date: April 1, 2009

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  • June 7, 2009
    Tokyo Zombie is certainly a very unpredictable film, in a good way. It starts as a very acid zombie comedy, then about halfway it takes a Land of the Dead-twist, gets even more acid in the humour, and introduces some drama elements that just makes this a strange, but very rewardi...( read more)ng combo.

    Some of the humour was a bit 50/50 with me, but eventually what really stands here is the incredible duo that Aikawa and Asano made. I just have to wonder why these guys never acted together before. Their master-disciple relation gives the film a dose of substance that other films of the genre certainly lack. There's also some social critique, Romero style, but in a very Japanese way. Remember those human batteries of The Matrix, those robots had it all wrong, they should had use the method they use in the future Tokyo of TZ.

    Even if the humour doesn't click with you there's a lot of things going on here to hook you. These days where everyone is doing a zombie flick is good to see that some still have some creativity in the genre.
  • November 23, 2007
    It has it's moments but overall uneven
  • July 15, 2009
    Very dry, tongue-in-cheek humor throughout. The biggest laughs come in the last 10 minutes. Lots of fun for fans of the genre.
  • May 15, 2009
    Hell yeah!!!! Now this is what you call all out fun!!! This movie is so freaking hilarious. The first thing I noticed though is the actor that played Kakihara in Ichi The Killer...that made it even better for me. But this movie is so cheesy and fun and I loved every minute of it....( read more) Nothing as great as seeing a Japanese zombie flick. I've watched a few now and they are all great!!!!
  • January 28, 2007
    A wacky comedy that could only come out of Japan. Though I've heard it compared to Shawn of the Dead (which I think is stretching it quite a bit) this movie towers over Shawn's mediocre attempts at comedy. Tadanobu Asano (in yet another great film) and Sho Aikawa play loser bud...( read more)dies who's jujitsu skills come in handy after the inevitable zombie takeover. Where that may sound a tad predictable, about halfway through the movie takes a sharp turn, landing it in Romero country. There are a lot of laughs to be had and the movie never lets up for a second. I can see why some audience members were turned off, Asano's character is so dumb and pig-headed that he is easy to hate in the third act, but to some audience members that is the joy of this film, characters who do not follow the beaten path.
  • October 21, 2009
    Super wacky zombie film. At first it was really border-line gay and zombie running cheesy. As the movie progresses, the plot gets better and better. The last part of the film was really hilarious and semi-positive. It was overall a cheesy great comical "baka" film. I'm really imp...( read more)ressed with Arata Furuta's acting.
  • October 18, 2009
    Frequently insane and quite funny with two working class Japanese men, an older bald guy and his "Jujitsu student" fight zombies with jujitsu. Not swords, not guns, but face-smashing jujitsu. I thought this Japanese zombie film is good, but not quite great as well as it is just p...( read more)lain dumb.
    The film has been called the Japanese Shaun of the Dead. I see it. I think it's a stretch, but I see it. There's a similar style of dark humor and violence coupled with cheesy CGI.
    This film's biggest flaw is a lack of zombies. Sure, we have plenty of zombies, but there still seems to be a shortage -- there are periods of up to ten minutes without zombie action. These scenes are often filled with sentimental blather.
  • October 11, 2009
    There were several moments while I was watching that I found myself laughing hysterically at this and then there were many times I found myself scratching my head at how bad and unfunny this was. The jokes were so hit and miss and most of them missed. It was as if they were tryin...( read more)g to hard and the harder they tried the worse it got. But this is one really bizarre movie. One of the more bizarre movies that I have ever seen. But when i got to the last 10 minutes I was laughing hard.
  • October 6, 2009
    A quirky zombie comedy. Not enough gore and not enough laughs.
  • September 5, 2009
    A lot of fun with some great laughs and a good storyline. Not to mention a great cast as well. However, it does take a good while to really get interested in the film. Once you get to the second half of the film, the things in the first half do play into the second half and the f...( read more)irst half does make sense to the story, but it still does take an effort to get intrested in it. Not to say there wern't laughs, there were, there were a lot later on though. Not to mention a good twist. I also enjoyed all the wackyness of it all which was great. I've been a big fan of Tadanobu Asano ever since Ichi The Killer came out so it was great to see him in another good movie, but also a completely different genre from "Ichi". Many things work for this film. It's not extrodinary and it's not up to Shawn of The Dead standards, but it's entertaining and funny with zombies! A good watch, I enjoyed this!

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