Junk

Name: Junk: Shiryô-gari
Genre: Horror
Released: 2000-01-22
Duration: 1 h 23 min
Rating: 5.4
Cast: Kaori Shimamura, Yûji Kishimoto, Shû Ehara

Original title: Junk: Shiryô-gari

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A team of jewel thieves are caught between a yakuza gang and a mass of zombies when they enter an abandoned factory once used as a site for secret experiments by the U.S. military.A team of jewel thieves are caught between a yakuza gang and a mass of zombies when they enter an abandoned factory once used as a site for secret experiments by the U.S. military.A team of jewel thieves are caught between a yakuza gang and a mass of zombies when they enter an abandoned factory once used as a site for secret experiments by the U.S. military.

5.4/10

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Four crooks rob a jewelery shop, then head for an abandoned factory where they plan to fence the goods to the Yakuza. Unfortunately, their chosen location happens to be the same place where American scientists had previously experimented on resurrecting the dead. —TMD

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Taglines
- Everybody fights
Genre
- Horror
Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated R for strong sci-fi violence/gore, language and nudity
Parents guide

Trivia
The American soldiers featured in the film are real soldiers stationed in Japan at the time.

Alternate versions
Uncut version running 91 minutes also available on DVD.

Top review

4/10

Watchable but amateurish

I like zombie movies, and I like Japanese movies, but this one was just too amateurish. The acting went from bad to worse, at times getting so bad you couldn't concentrate on the movie - you had to stop and marvel at a line delivered particularly badly, wondering why it wasn't edited out and if that actor was possibly a funding source for the movie. To be fair, the Japanese actors, in general, did a much better job than their American counterparts.

For a better example of the Japanese zombie movie, see Bio Zombie. That at least has a decent level of humor. Junk had little to no humor, indicating that they took the movie a little too seriously. It wasn't so bad that I couldn't finish watching, but it was so bad I knew I'd never watch it again.

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