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Cast
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Minase Yashiro | ... | Ami Hyuga |
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Nobuhiro Nishihara | ... | Sho Kimura |
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Kentarô Shimazu | ... | Ryûji Kimura / Kimura gang boss (as Kentaro Shimazu) |
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Ryôsuke Kawamura | ... | Yu Hyuga (as Ryousuke Kawamura) |
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Yûya Ishikawa | ... | Suguru Sugihara (as Yuya Ishikawa) |
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Noriko Kijima | ... | Yoshie |
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Hiroko Yashiki | ||
| Tarô Suwa | ... | Kimura gang member (as Taro Suwa) | |
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Hiroyuki Yoshida | ||
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Demo Tanaka | ... | Kaneko / Kimura gang member |
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Naohiro Kawamoto | ||
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Masaki Inatome | ||
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Hitoshi Fukushima | ||
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Ami is a typical college girl. She's bright, friendly, popular and athletic, with nothing to set her apart from other girls her age other than the fact that she is an orphan, left to care for her younger brother after her father committed suicide after being falsely accused of murder. But while there is tragedy in their past, the siblings' future looks good, except for one thing. Ami's brother has racked up a considerable debt to another boy at school, and that boy just happens to be the heir to a clan of vicious ninja-yakuza. Ami's brother can't pay, violence breaks out and in the course of trying to avenge her brother, Ami is captured by the clan. They torture her and hack her arm right off. Ami escapes, barely alive, and is taken in by the owners of a machine shop who build her a customized, bullet-spewing arm. From that point, the quest for revenge is on in earnest. Written by Todd Brown for Fantasia Film Festival
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JapaneseRelease Date:
23 May 2008 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Some of the actresses in this film are pornstars. See more »Goofs
At the showdown, the scene starts with Sho hiding behind three students who are tied together. When his mother is electrified, he then steps through the three, one of them visibly stepping apart from the other two. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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I have always thought of Japonesse comedy as being like Shakespeare comedy; funny to the people of the time and/or place but not to the rest of us. This is the first Asian film to not only make me laugh more than just a chuckle, but to make me cry with laughter and literally smack my knee. The reason that this is so good is because it seems as if writer director Noboru Iguchi took a step or two back too get a view of the Asian film market as a whole and even seems to have looked at it with a non-Asian eye to see how the rest of us see the market.
The deliberate over-the-top cheese and "happy family beginnings" were great fun, but its the wonderfully gory scenes that you'll remember. I don't want to go into too much detail so as to avoid spoiling the fun for those who haven't seen it, except to say that the scene with the main bad guy making his son drink his blood as a right of passage to the yakuzza is the main culprit for my man tears.
The only real problem of note is that the fun starts to dry a little as time goes on, the gore occurs less and less and the deliberate cheesy acting and dialogue almost gets tiresome (though it never actually is). It seems as if Iguchi used up all his best ideas too quickly in the first half and had to run with an empty tank for the last third.
Despite this its still always superb fun, and even though it is definitely gory, I recommend most people to see it, just cover your eyes if it gets too much at times!