Helldriver (2010)
"Nihon bundan: Heru doraibâ" (original title)

Director:

Yoshihiro Nishimura

Writers:

Yoshihiro Nishimura, Daichi Nagisa

Stars:

Yumiko Hara, Eihi Shiina, Kazuki Namioka

Cast

Credited cast:
Yumiko Hara	...	Kika
Eihi Shiina	...	Rikka
Kazuki Namioka	...	Kaito
Yûrei Yanagi	...	Taku
Minoru Torihada
Gadarukanaru Taka	...	(as Guadalcanal Taka)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Midori Aoyama
Asami	...	Wall guard
Yukihide Benny	...	Man on the wall
Norman England	...	Annoyed patron
Yasuhiko Fukuda
Yukihiro Haruzono
Rie Hayasaka
Miki Hirase
Honoka

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

foreign version | female nudity | newborn baby | country name in title | alternate version | 

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Taglines:

A joy ride. (Festival poster)

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Genres:

Horror | Sci-Fi

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Details

Official Sites:

Sushi Typhoon [jp] Sushi Typhoon [us]

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

23 July 2011 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Helldriver

Box Office

Budget:

$600,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Nikkatsu, Something Creation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

117 min 106 min (international) 105 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Produced and distributed in Japan along with Alien vs. Ninja, Yakuza Weapon and Deadball as the second wave of Nikkatsu's Sushi Typhoon series of J-sploitation cinema.

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Crazy Credits

The "opening credits" do not run until about the halfway point of the movie.

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Connections

Referenced in Midnight Movie Review: Night of Terror 2011 (2011)

User Reviews

Underwhelmed

Okay, when you go to see a so-bad-it's-good horror/zombie movie, there are a few expectations that need to be met and I could never get past the fact that the act of watching zombies getting killed wasn't amusing. Seriously. The movie used thousands of liters of blood and all too often watching it spray was not remotely funny. The movie delivers on a lot of fronts, but at the end of the day there was too much gore and weird sh*t going on and not enough hilarity and cheering on the hero on screen.

When I saw the movie, it was the headliner for a horror movie film festival and by all means all of the circumstances for movie success were there, but it was just one of those ineffable things where the movie just didn't live up to the expectations.

tl;dr Had potential, but not as entertaining/lighthearted as it should have been