If you cannot handle blood and gore or over-the-top sexual themes, do not watch this movie. If, on the other hand, you tend toward morbid fascination, and you’re okay with watching parts of the movie through your fingers, you’ll be intrigued and amazed at this Japanese cinematic freakshow. Nobody does splatter horror drama like the Japanese. And the sexual fetishism . . . just, hold on to your seats, folks.
It’s a crazy future in the city of Tokyo, where the police regularly combat mechanized mutants called Engineers. Cut off a limb, and it sprouts anew, miraculously transformed into badass weaponry. Ruka is a beautiful cop, an Engineer Hunter with a samauri sword, and she knows how to use it. That’s a good thing, because this movie begins with an epic battle, and the bloodshed doesn’t stop there. It seems like it doesn’t stop ever, except during the “comic relief” of pop-style commercials for teenage cutters.
Visit the website or watch the trailer on YouTube**.
**Note: It gives away some of the better splatter effect scenes.
In an interview with Twitch, Director Yoshihiro Nishimura explains that since his youth the “distorted human bodies depicted in some of Dali’s paintings” have inspired creativity in him. That surreal and twisted sense of reality is evident in his work. If snail-girl doesn’t get to you, croc-girl just might. In order to develop the screenplay for Tokyo Gore Police, he revisited his independent film Anatomia Extinction (made ten years prior).
Yoshihiro Nishimura is well known for his work in special effects make-up, and Twitch also informs that Machine Girl director Noboru Iguchi (who directed the commercials in Gore Police) will be working with Nishimura on a new project called Drill Bra Sisters. I’m sure it both lifts and separates.
