Thursday, October 23, 2014

To Live and Die (mostly die) in Tokyo

Tokyo Gore Police

Considered one of the big daddy Japanese gore movies, this lives up to it's name.


     Ruka is a born killer when it comes to dispensing with the “Engineers”, a group of virally mutated humans that sprout weird weapons from every orifice. That's her job with the Engineer Hunters. They're a SWAT-like team of assassins that are, you're never going to believe this, rather violent in their methods. Ruka is also trying to find her fathers killer, who assassinated him when she was young. So, yeah, a pretty strong side story, right? Oh just humor me, these things make little sense.

     Most of the storyline is about a man called The Key Man, and he's the one that created the virus. Her main mission is to hunt him down and kill him. However, after meeting him in his house, and getting a fat dose of truth about her father's assassin, she chops him in half. Turns out, his father was the assassin, and he was ALSO killed shortly after that! Dick move, bro! From there on, it's a total bloodbath as the Hunters go on a killing spree, offing everyone that has the 'virus', usually in the most disturbingly violent ways possible. Also, somewhere along the way, Ruka is infected with the virus and she starts popping out weird appendages and a snapping dragon hand (?). Does it really matter at this point? Does any of this ever make sense to the Western world? Nope. It never will and that's why we're drawn towards it, even it if overloads us. Towards the end, there's a boss fight and guess who wins? Yup. Naturally, the end sets us up for a sequel but this was released in 2008, and as of 2014, nothing's happened yet. So for now, indy film houses will just have to settle for replays of this weird as fuck movie. Oh, you want to see what makes it weird? Fine:
Yes, that's his weiner. It shoots stuff. No more detail needed.
Aaaannd:
Fuck it. No comment.


Friday: One more freakshow before some sanity!


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