10 April 2009

Tokyo Gore Police (2008)

The Tokyo police force has been privatised, and the new police “show no mercy to criminals”. This means they enforce law like Judge Dredd and gun down perps in the street. "Mankind's newest enemy" are the Engineers, criminals who have transformed their bodies in to efficient killing machines (and making David Cronenberg’s bodily alterations seem tame in comparison). Ruka is beautiful, dangerous, depressed, and a Hunter, she tracks down the Engineers and brutally ends their illegal ways.

Tokyo Gore Police is completely over the top in the best Japanese tradition, and is punctuated with demented advertisements. Robocop meets Meatball Machine in a story oozing with betrayal, killing, weapons growing out of bodies, a gun that fires fists, a severed penis, a woman whose lower half is a giant mouth, a woman with her nipples removed, dismembered bodies in boxes, and blood, lots of blood. It’s even crazier than you imagine (and a bit too long at 110 minutes).

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