Tôkyô zankoku keisatsu (2008)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Yoshihiro Nishimura

Writers:

Kengo Kaji (screenplay)
Sayako Nakoshi (screenplay) (collaboration)

Release Date:

3 October 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Horror | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Set in a future-world vision of Tokyo where the police have been privatized and bitter self-mutilation...

Plot Keywords:

Police | Mutant | Engineer | Tokyo | Alley

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Eihi Shiina	...	Ruka
Itsuji Itao	...	Keyman
Yukihide Benny	...	Tokyo Police Chief
Jiji Bû	...	Barabara-Man
Keisuke Horibe	...	Ruka's Father
Ikuko Sawada	...	Bar Independent Diner
Shun Sugata	...	Tokyo Police Commissioner
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Maiko Asano
Kai Izumi
Karin
Moko Kinoshita
Cherry Kirishima
Camille LaBry	...	Raku (voice)
Marie Machida		(as Marî Machida)
Tsugumi Nagasawa
Shôko Nakahara
Sayako Nakoshi
Yoshihiro Nishimura
Tak Sakaguchi		(as Taku Sakaguchi)
Takashi Shimizu
Tokitoshi Shiota
Sion Sono		(as Shion Sono)
Demo Tanaka
Mame Yamada
Ayano Yamamoto

Also Known As:

Tokyo Gore Police (International: English title) (USA)

Runtime:

110 min

Country:

USA | Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Certification:

France:-16 | Australia:R | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:R18 | Canada:R (Alberta)

Filming Locations:

Tokyo, Japan

Company:

Fever Dreams

Movie Connections:

Edited into 63-fun-go (2009)

Starts off extremely gory and doesn't let up for nearly two hours.

Combine a Paul Verhoeven-style dystopian vision of the future (of the kind seen in Robocop and Starship Troopers) with the body-shock horror of David Cronenberg, throw in absolutely tons of OTT cartoonish gore ala Peter Jackson and some outrageously twisted horror of the kind that only the Japanese could imagine, and then add every last shred of bizarre Anime-inspired imagery that you can think of, and the result may look something like Tokyo Gore Police, a completely bonkers, gore-drenched epic from director Yoshihiro Nishimura.

Since it would take me forever and a day to try and catalogue every last moment of gore and depravity in this film, and even longer to try and describe the plot (beyond mentioning the fact that the story sees a young woman seeking revenge for her father's death), I'm not going to bother; suffice to say that gore-hounds who seek out this freaky film will be treated to continuous stomach churning images of bodily dismemberment, S & M themed grotesquery, and scenes of complete random violence from start to finish, and the fact that the story makes very little sense (at least until the very end, when plot threads finally start to come together) should not matter in the least.

Ironically, though, it is this relentless approach that stops me from giving Tokyo Gore Police a perfect 10/10. When a film begins with the gore and weirdness levels stuck firmly at ten, then there is nowhere left for the film to go. For nearly two hours, the blood sprays, limbs are ripped off, heads roll, and bodies are torn asunder; whilst this is admittedly lots of fun, it leaves little room for progression and zero chance of a genuinely satisfying climax (Oooer missus!).