From the mind of one "Guts & Entrails Gaira" comes this low budget zombie flick based on a meteor crash in Tokyo Bay. The aftermath of which (including a gaseous cloud & "cosmic contaminant") leads to a virus inflicted upon the dead--thus giving them new life--meaning bad news for the living, who may yet become living dead themselves...
Military takeover of the blackened city in shambles juxtaposes the few remaining radicals, wayfarers, and renegades living by the laws of nature and survival... A traveling van of misfits in particular. The mad scientist General Hugioka oversees experiments on the living to build a monster army to rule the world... Keiko & military-general-father Ita fight for justice and deliverance in a seemingly hopeless situation... Corrupt authority wishes to keep the disaster hidden, so that it may extend its deviant killings, torture, and horrific medical experiments... Can Keiko & Ita save Tokyo? The world?
Our lady, Ms. Keiko, with the help of her father's custom designed leather-clad-body-suit, tailored to her specifications--apparently also capable of bolstering feminine superhero type powers--and microchip technology used to communicated with one another--takes on the gang of walking dead corpses and evil military dictators to the death! The monster army can't stop Cutie Keiko either... And this film generally feels like a waste of time in between the laughable fight scenes, $2.00 shoot outs, bad acting, obligatory wrestling moves, but hey; it's got a nice aesthetic touch & i found it to be charming. Not to mention the denouement... Oh, the ending that's not much of an ending. *frown*
As for deeper meaning of the content at hand, there does seem to be some nationalistic, anti-torture, and politically motivated commentary on display here (see Hugioka's rambling speech near the end). And for such references, it deserves a higher mark than the average trash fare, but maybe I'm reading things into it to justify a higher rating.
In sum: If you want a fun flick similar to Romero's "Dawn of the dead" spliced with a semi-sci fi premise and cyber punkish elements, then this is for you.
P.s. "Japan can't be saved by your humanism!"
6.5/10
Military takeover of the blackened city in shambles juxtaposes the few remaining radicals, wayfarers, and renegades living by the laws of nature and survival... A traveling van of misfits in particular. The mad scientist General Hugioka oversees experiments on the living to build a monster army to rule the world... Keiko & military-general-father Ita fight for justice and deliverance in a seemingly hopeless situation... Corrupt authority wishes to keep the disaster hidden, so that it may extend its deviant killings, torture, and horrific medical experiments... Can Keiko & Ita save Tokyo? The world?
Our lady, Ms. Keiko, with the help of her father's custom designed leather-clad-body-suit, tailored to her specifications--apparently also capable of bolstering feminine superhero type powers--and microchip technology used to communicated with one another--takes on the gang of walking dead corpses and evil military dictators to the death! The monster army can't stop Cutie Keiko either... And this film generally feels like a waste of time in between the laughable fight scenes, $2.00 shoot outs, bad acting, obligatory wrestling moves, but hey; it's got a nice aesthetic touch & i found it to be charming. Not to mention the denouement... Oh, the ending that's not much of an ending. *frown*
As for deeper meaning of the content at hand, there does seem to be some nationalistic, anti-torture, and politically motivated commentary on display here (see Hugioka's rambling speech near the end). And for such references, it deserves a higher mark than the average trash fare, but maybe I'm reading things into it to justify a higher rating.
In sum: If you want a fun flick similar to Romero's "Dawn of the dead" spliced with a semi-sci fi premise and cyber punkish elements, then this is for you.
P.s. "Japan can't be saved by your humanism!"
6.5/10