Meatball Machine (2005)

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.

Directors:

Yudai Yamaguchi, Jun'ichi Yamamoto

Writers:

Jun'ya Katô (screenplay) (as Jun'ya Katô), Yudai Yamaguchi (story)

Stars:

Issey Takahashi, Aoba Kawai, Kenichi Kawasaki

Cast

Credited cast:
Issey Takahashi	...	Yôji (as Issei Takahashi)
Aoba Kawai	...	Sachiko
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Kenichi Kawasaki	...	Tanaka
Shôichirô Masumoto
Shôjirô Suzuki
Tôru Tezuka
Ayano Yamamoto

Storyline

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.

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Plot Keywords:

splatter | parasite | host | alien parasite | alien | 

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Genres:

Action | Horror | Sci-Fi

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Did You Know?

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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Connections

Spin-off Meatball Machine: Reject of Death (2007)

User Reviews

Horror/Gore sci-fi with...an human and relatable twist?!

This must be the first in my life I've ever seen relatable and fragile characters as the protagonists of this type of movie, usually relegated to kickass one-liners spewing macho men or women a là Doom Guy or Ellen Ripley (funny, considered this movie was clearly influenced by Alien and Invasion of the Body Snatchers). For that alone, this movie gets 1000% my approval. Hollywood and America please take notes...once again.

Details

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

14 October 2005 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Fundoshi Corps 1

Company Credits

Production Co:

King Records, NTT Learning System

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Color:

Color