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Meatball Machine

  • 20052005
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
2.1K
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POPULARITY
22,477
3,660
Meatball Machine (2005)
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Full-throttle splatter-ific Japanese cyberpunk science fiction/horror at its most aggressive, this mind-blower about alien parasites that turn their human hosts into slave "Necroborgs" will ... Read allFull-throttle splatter-ific Japanese cyberpunk science fiction/horror at its most aggressive, this mind-blower about alien parasites that turn their human hosts into slave "Necroborgs" will leave you dizzy and drained - in a good way.Full-throttle splatter-ific Japanese cyberpunk science fiction/horror at its most aggressive, this mind-blower about alien parasites that turn their human hosts into slave "Necroborgs" will leave you dizzy and drained - in a good way.
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
2.1K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
22,477
3,660
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    • Directors
      • Yudai Yamaguchi
      • Jun'ichi Yamamoto
    • Writers
      • Jun'ya Katô(screenplay)
      • Yudai Yamaguchi(story)
      • Yukihiko Yamaguchi(story)
    • Stars
      • Issey Takahashi
      • Aoba Kawai
      • Kenichi Kawasaki
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    • Directors
      • Yudai Yamaguchi
      • Jun'ichi Yamamoto
    • Writers
      • Jun'ya Katô(screenplay)
      • Yudai Yamaguchi(story)
      • Yukihiko Yamaguchi(story)
    • Stars
      • Issey Takahashi
      • Aoba Kawai
      • Kenichi Kawasaki
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    • 23User reviews
    • 53Critic reviews
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    Issey Takahashi
    Issey Takahashi
    • Yôji
    • (as Issei Takahashi)
    Aoba Kawai
    Aoba Kawai
    • Sachiko
    Kenichi Kawasaki
    • Tanaka
    Shôichirô Masumoto
    Shôjirô Suzuki
    Tôru Tezuka
    Ayano Yamamoto
    • Directors
      • Yudai Yamaguchi
      • Jun'ichi Yamamoto
    • Writers
      • Jun'ya Katô(screenplay)
      • Yudai Yamaguchi(story)
      • Yukihiko Yamaguchi(story)
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    • Trivia
      Meatball Machine became the international breakthrough movie of Yoshihiro Nishimura's career, as a result of the extensive coverage his special make-up effects work on it received from then-independent movie news website Twitch, beginning over a month before its premiere at the now-defunct Tokyo International Fantastic Film Festival.
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      Followed by Meatball Machine Kodoku (2017)

    User reviews23

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    Top review
    10/10
    Wonderful, absolutely wonderful film
    Meatball Machine is an amazing splatter film, it has an original plot with young love, buckets of blood, and weird alien creatures that mutate people into freakish robotic war machines.

    Now the film isn't for everyone, people who love splatter films or the movie Tetsuo: the Iron Man will applaud it.

    The special effects can be cheesy at some points of the film, but your not exactly suppose to take the film very seriously.

    Yet, all in all it's a lot of fun, well if you find budding romantics infested with slimy tumor like gobbles who seek to destroy each other in bloody alien oozing battles.
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    • Feb 14, 2008

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    • Release date
      • April 1, 2006 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Fundoshi Corps 1
    • Production companies
      • King Records
      • NTT Learning System
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 30 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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