In a near future, chaotic Japan, a mad scientist known as "Key Man" (Itsuji Itao) has created a virus that mutates humans into monstrous creatures called "Engineers" that sprout bizarre weapons from any injury. The Tokyo Police Force has been privatized to deal with this new threat of engineers, so a special squad of officers called "Engineer Hunters" are created to deal with them. However, unlike the average police force, the Engineer Hunters are a private quasi-military force that utilize violence, sadism, and streetside executions to maintain law and order.
Eihi Shiina from "Audition" stars as Ruka, an anti-social, self-harming loner, who is very skilled in dispatching the engineers. And this comes to us from the creators of "Machine Girl", "Meatball Machine" and "Suicide Club"... so if you've seen those, you kind of get the idea.
Director Yoshihiro Nishimura has been described as "a legendary director and effects artist" and "the Tom Savini of Japan" with "talent to burn". Okay, so comparing anyone to Savini is a bit of a stretch... but when you see what Nishimura is capable of doing, it's not a bad description: these creations are something outrageous.
The effects, the plot, the characters... they are all beyond bizarre. Some guy named Brian Chen reviewed the film and comments, "It's not a horrible film; it's not a great film; it's just everything it tries to be -- perverse, grotesque, bizarre -- and a little more." That's a fine summary. It is most certainly those things... it cannot be a great film with its over-the-top nature, but as far as Japanese gore films go, it's the new standard to beat...
If you liked "Machine Girl" and liked the excessive blood, gore, twisted sexuality... you'll enjoy this. You may not understand it all, because it's screwed up beyond belief, but if you're renting or buying a film called "Tokyo Gore Police", I think you have a good sense of what you're getting into.
Eihi Shiina from "Audition" stars as Ruka, an anti-social, self-harming loner, who is very skilled in dispatching the engineers. And this comes to us from the creators of "Machine Girl", "Meatball Machine" and "Suicide Club"... so if you've seen those, you kind of get the idea.
Director Yoshihiro Nishimura has been described as "a legendary director and effects artist" and "the Tom Savini of Japan" with "talent to burn". Okay, so comparing anyone to Savini is a bit of a stretch... but when you see what Nishimura is capable of doing, it's not a bad description: these creations are something outrageous.
The effects, the plot, the characters... they are all beyond bizarre. Some guy named Brian Chen reviewed the film and comments, "It's not a horrible film; it's not a great film; it's just everything it tries to be -- perverse, grotesque, bizarre -- and a little more." That's a fine summary. It is most certainly those things... it cannot be a great film with its over-the-top nature, but as far as Japanese gore films go, it's the new standard to beat...
If you liked "Machine Girl" and liked the excessive blood, gore, twisted sexuality... you'll enjoy this. You may not understand it all, because it's screwed up beyond belief, but if you're renting or buying a film called "Tokyo Gore Police", I think you have a good sense of what you're getting into.