Tokyo Gore Police (2008)
"Tôkyô zankoku keisatsu" (original title)

Set in a future-world vision of Tokyo where the police have been privatized and bitter self-mutilation is so casual that advertising is often specially geared to the "cutter" demographic, ... See full summary »

Director:

Yoshihiro Nishimura

Writers:

Kengo Kaji (screenplay), Maki Mizui (screenplay),

Stars:

Eihi Shiina, Itsuji Itao, Yukihide Benny

2 wins.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Eihi Shiina	...	Ruka
Itsuji Itao	...	Keyman
Yukihide Benny	...	Tokyo Police Chief
Jiji Bû	...	Barabara-Man
Ikuko Sawada	...	Bar Independent Diner
Cay Izumi	...	Dog Girl
Mame Yamada
Ayano Yamamoto
Akane Akanezawa	...	(as Moko Kinoshita)
Tsugumi Nagasawa
Maiko Asano
Daisuke Matsuki
Naofumi Murata
Takashi Shimizu
Oppe Ma

Storyline

Set in a future-world vision of Tokyo where the police have been privatized and bitter self-mutilation is so casual that advertising is often specially geared to the "cutter" demographic, this is the story of samurai-sword-wielding Ruka and her mission to avenge her father's assassination. Ruka is a cop from a squad who's mission is to destroy homicidal mutant humans known as "engineers" possessing the ability to transform any injury to a weapon in and of itself.

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Plot Keywords:

engineer | police | mutant | gore | virus | 

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Genres:

Action | Horror | Sci-Fi

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site Official site [jp]

Country:

USA Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

3 October 2008 (USA)

Also Known As:

Tokyo Gore Police

Filming Locations:

Tokyo, Japan

Company Credits

Production Co:

Fever Dreams, Nikkatsu

Technical Specs

Runtime:

110 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Edited into 63-fun-go (2009)

User Reviews

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!).