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Synapse Films continue their ongoing campaign to bring early schlock horror and exploitation cinema to the Us, with the release of Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu’s, Battle Girl: The Living Dead In Tokyo Bay on R1 DVD. Komizu gained notoriety in 80s Japan with films like ‘Entrails of a Virgin’ and ‘Entrails of a Beautiful Woman,’ and from just the titles you can guess in depth character and plot development weren't top of his list. Zombies, nudity, sex, gore and spatter were the name of the game. Nothing new there you’d argue? But then its always interesting to see how they used to do it the “olden” days. Battle Girl goes on sale on Feb 23rd. A meteor lands in Japan and the fallout creates a “shield” around Tokyo, encasing the city in a foggy darkness. A state of martial law is declared. People are in a panic...

Synapse Films continue their ongoing campaign to bring early schlock horror and exploitation cinema to the Us, with the release of Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu’s, Battle Girl: The Living Dead In Tokyo Bay on R1 DVD. Komizu gained notoriety in 80s Japan with films like ‘Entrails of a Virgin’ and ‘Entrails of a Beautiful Woman,’ and from just the titles you can guess in depth character and plot development weren't top of his list. Zombies, nudity, sex, gore and spatter were the name of the game. Nothing new there you’d argue? But then its always interesting to see how they used to do it the “olden” days. Battle Girl goes on sale on Feb 23rd. A meteor lands in Japan and the fallout creates a “shield” around Tokyo, encasing the city in a foggy darkness. A state of martial law is declared. People are in a panic...

Synapse Films gave Fango the scoop that it has snapped up the North American rights to Embodiment Of Evil (see our review of the import release here), the new adventure of Brazilian horror legend José Mojica Marins, a.k.a. Coffin Joe (pictured). The company also provided us the first look at cover art and specs for its upcoming DVD of the Japanese sci-fi/horror opus Battle Girl: The Living Dead In Tokyo Bay (Batoru Garu), streeting February 23.

Embodiment Of Evil’s scenario, written by Marins and Dennison Ramalho, sees the evil Coffin Joe rising from his grave to continue his quest for a woman to bear his child, torturing and killing anyone who stands in his way. The film has won raves and awards at numerous international festivals, including Montreal’s Fantasia (see story here), Spain’s Sitges and others. Synapse will issue the film on DVD and Blu-ray...