Tokyo Gore PoliceDirected by Yoshihiro Nishimura
Japan, 2008, 100 minutes
Tokyo Gore Police had its North American Premiere in June at the New York Asian Film Festival 2008, the city's - and perhaps the nation's - wildest, weirdest, and wackiest love fest with Asian cinema.
I saw it and loved it! It was the best, most audacious, most outrageous piece of mind-blowing cinematic mayhem I'd seen since Takashi Miike's Ichi The Killer (Japan, 2001). Eihi Shiina, in her first film since her cringe-inducing role in Miike's Audition (1999), is a police officer who excels at taking down criminally insane mutants. Termed "Engineers," they grow weapons where they have been wounded. Blow off an arm, and a chainsaw appears! They can only be killed by removing a key shaped item from under their skin.
I haven't had the chance to do a full review of it yet, and can't now. Sometime in the not too distant future. But I do want to pass on this info for those lucky folks in the greater Schenectady area:
Tokyo Gore Police is set to be one of the films to be shown at IT CAME FROM SCHENECTADY, a 24-hour marathon of sci-fi flicks at The Proctor Theater. Screenings will take place there on September 13 - 14, from noon to noon. Subway Cinema member, Paul Kazee works at Proctor’s and is one of the people responsible the program.
This film is a must see, in a theater if at all possible. I think it'll eventually be released on DVD by Media Blasters, whose name appears in the credits, but I don't know that for sure. This is a great cult film that deserves both widespread theatrical showings as well as a really good DVD release. Four out of four star ACF rating!
Thanks for the plug, Stan!
ReplyDeleteAlways a pleasure, Paul.
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