MPAA Rating: NR (Intense Violence and Gore, Nudity, Insanely Disturbing Images, The Possibility of Your Mind Exploding From All The Craziness)
Writers: Kengo Kaji/Sayako Nakoshi
Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura
Running Time: 100 Minutes
- Someone (actually many someones) getting chopped right in half.
- A man grow guns for eyes when the top half of his head is ripped off (just the skin mind you)
- A freak show where people were turned into oddities (we’re talking a girl becoming a legitimate SNAIL, bugged out eyes and all) and then others bid to have sex with them.
Any of these situations interest you? Then you’re gonna love the hell out of Tokyo Gore Police. It is a gory as hell ride through the bowels of a crazy Japanese man’s mind…and it…is…AWESOME.
The plot to Tokyo Gore Police absolutely does not matter in the slightest, but what the hell, let’s delve into it anyway: in future Tokyo, the police force has become privatized, owned by a corporation that is never mentioned by name. While that already sucks, there’s also a mad man known only as Key Man who is injecting weird key-shaped (the magic word here is “key”) tumors into people’s bodies which allows them to spurt weapons from wherever they may lose a body part. It also happens to drive people crazy and give them incredible bloodlust. These monstrosities are nicknamed “engineers” because they can engineer crazy stuff out of nothing (GET IT?!?). The TPC (Tokyo Police Corporation) have to deal with this on a very regular basis, but as luck would have it, they have an expert engineer hunter by the name of Ruka (Eihi Shiina).
Ruka is your usual sexy Japanese girl, but she loves splitting people in half with kitanas, cutting herself, and drinking at a local establishment known as “Bar Independent”. After the death of her father, she was raised by the Police Chief (Yukihide Benny) who has bred her into being the awesome slayer she is now. The plot follows Ruka on her quest to avenge her father’s death and she comes face to face with a bunch of crazy engineers. Chaos, blood, and minor plot stuff commence.
Ever just have one of those days?
Still, it’s a riot to sit through. Just when you think you have seen everything, they up the ante. You start off raising your eyebrows, and you end by going “WHAT THE #*$&#*$#($ WAS THAT?!?”, and even laughing at the absurdity of it. At least I did. You will too, I believe in you.
Tokyo Gore Police is 100 minutes of non-stop violence and chaos. It makes little to no sense, there’s no real plot developments (or even a plot), and you’ll probably scream and holler and be in complete shock at the crazy stuff the filmmakers come up with. Still, it’s a fun ride and if you like over the top violence this is definitely worth a watch. Hell, even if you don’t like stuff like this, you should still at least watch the opening scene; this is something you need to see to believe.
Loved, loved, loved this flick! Have you ever checked out Machine Girl or Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl? The filmmakers involved in this one have their hands in those as well and they’re equally as entertaining, although I still think this one is on the top of the heap in terms of ridiculous violence.
This is my first foray into this type of Japanese cinema, spurred by “HOLY MOTHER JUGS AND SPEED” reviews from my friends. I will be checking out the rest, no doubt about it.
I love this genre of over the top, blood squirting nonsense. I haven’t seen Holy Mother Jugs and Speed, I’m gonna have to look that one up.
Holy Mother Jugs and Speed is an exclamation, not a movie haha, I was just trying to capture their amazement without cursing. I failed!
HAHAHA! Actually Mother, Jugs and Speed is a movie, not this type of movie but a movie anyway. The name sounded so familiar that I figured you were referencing a flick and I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some of Mother, Jugs and Speed!
I saw Machine Girl a while back and still have this in my ‘to watch’ pile. I really hope this is better, will skip it up the que. My ‘shopping list’ from Machine Girl was:
shot in the eye,
face shot to bits,
hand hacked off,
exploding head (2),
maid murder,
extreme bullying,
tempura arm,
brains facial,
intestine facial,
blood facial showers (gave up counting – ?),
cook brutality,
forced cannibalism,
ninja stars (?),
fingers sliced,
amputation (2),
necrophilia,
urban ninjas (3),
decapitation(?),
blood drinking,
nails in the face,
fountains of blood (?),
chainsaw deaths (?),
bucket of death (2),
limb fighting,
an unforgettable boob job and many an OTT gory death.
To lighten he mood they also chucked in some… swordfights, cleavage, ghosts, questionable first aid, midriff, sexy lingerie, a drill bra, pant wetting, death by strobes, Japanese schoolgirls and a MILF.
Now THAT sounds like a party. Machine Girl is next on my list of “crazy stuff from Japan that makes me never want to go there ever”.
Dont forget Samurai Princess and Kamikaze Girls!
With my friends one night, we were bored as ish, and then we just found this On Demand. And we just could not turn this off. Crazy Stuff!
This is one that’s been on my top of need to sees for awhile. Listening to you and everyone else, and especially Jonathan’s review after not being an avid watcher of this genre, I gotta get on it!