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Noboru Iguchi (writer)
Release Date:
23 May 2008 (USA)
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Plot:
Ami is a typical college girl. She's bright, friendly, popular and athletic, with nothing to set her...
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Minase Yashiro | ... | Ami Hyuga | |
| Asami | ... | Miki | |
| Kentarô Shimazu | ... | Ryûji Kimura / Kimura gang boss | |
| Honoka | ... | Violet Kimura | |
| Nobuhiro Nishihara | ... | Sho Kimura | |
| Yûya Ishikawa | ... | Suguru Sugihara | |
| Ryôsuke Kawamura | ... | Yu Hyuga | |
| Demo Tanaka | ... | Kaneko / Kimura gang member | |
| Nahana | ... | Masako Fujii | |
| Tarô Suwa | ... | Kimura gang member | |
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| Noriko Kijima | ... | Yoshie | |
| Kentaro Kishi | ... | Yôsuke Fujii (as Kentarô Kishi) | |
| Ryôji Okamoto | (as Ryôji Okamoto) | ||
| Erika Terajima | |||
| Hiroko Yashiki | |||
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The Machine Girl (International: English title) (USA)
The One-Armed Machine Girl (International: English title) (literal title)
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The One-Armed Machine Girl (International: English title) (literal title)
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96 min
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Chile:18 |
Spain:18 |
Peru:18 |
Hong Kong:III |
USA:Not Rated |
Canada:16+ (Quebec) |
Germany:18 (cut) |
UK:18 |
Australia:R (2009) |
Canada:18A (Alberta) |
New Zealand:R18
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The family kami (god) of the killers is Hanzo Hattori. Hatori Hanzo was a famous ninja and is often referenced in various fiction and entertainment.
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Continuity: At the showdown, the scene starts with Sho hiding behind three students who are tied together. When his mother is electrified, he then steps through the three, one of them visibly stepping apart from the other two.
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Featured in "30 Rock: Goodbye, My Friend (#3.13)" (2009)
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If you only see ONE outrageously absurd and ridiculously over-the-top Asian splatter yarn this year - or even this lifetime, for that matter you better make damn sure it's Noboru Iguchi's "The Machine Girl"! This stupendously demented piece of Japanese "Revengeploitaton" features king-size portions of all the regular and crowd-pleasing ingredients, like crazed stereotypical characters (Yakuzas, Ninjas, schoolgirls in uniform, ) and simplistic story lines, but it particularly specializes in extreme Magna-esquire gore and kitschy comedy. Beautiful and multi-talented schoolgirl Ami lives alone with her nerdy brother Yu since their parents committed suicide for falsely being accused of homicide. Ami protects her brother where she can, but she doesn't know he and his friend Takashi are the main targets of youthful bullies with prominent Yakuza-parents. The boys get killed, but nobody wants to help Ami because of her notorious family history and her sole attempts to get revenge literally cost the poor girl an arm. She finally gets help from Takashi's mourning parents, who also provide Ami with a machine-gun prosthesis. "Machine Girl" offers a wide selection of decapitations, dismemberment, close-up gunfire, stabbings, split-open skulls, chainsaw murders, fried limbs, slit throats, electrocutions, impalement and Samurai swashbuckling. Seen all of that before in other schlocky splatter fodder already? Well, yeah but what about flying guillotines and drill bras? Most of the running time, the screen is literally colored red with gallons of fake blood and removed intestines, but the tone of the film continuously remains blackly comical and light-headed. The phenomenally berserk make-up effects, courtesy of Yoshihiro Nishimura, are often nauseating, but never truly offensive. "Machine Girl" definitely also stars a couple of ravishing and incredibly sexy Japanese actresses, like Ami, her partner in crime Miki and even the supremely bitchy Yakuza's wife. The battle sequences at the beginning and in the garage, as well as the entire final showdown of course, simply have to be seen to be believed. This outrageously grotesque movie is well-made, well-acted and directed and indescribably entertaining.