ROTTEN TOMATOES: RoboGeisha: 2009's Most Insane Trailer? Comments

RoboGeisha: 2009's Most Insane Trailer?

by Luke Goodsell | July 01, 2009

Summary

It's lucky the Academy Awards have expanded their Best Picture Nominee category to 10 because here comes next year's first entry. RoboGeisha, Noboru Iguchi's delicate meditation on feminism in Japan, is your typical awards-baiting costume melodrama: Geisha assassins who kill adversaries with deadly swords and chainsaws sprouting from their mouths, transform into tanks, have machine-gun busts, katana-sword hips and... use shrimp tempura daggers to take out the eyes of villains. And that's just the half of it -- we can't quite describe certain other elements here, so be warned: this isn't PG-13 material. On a side note, who is this gravelly genius doing the voice-over -- and can he be the new Don LaFontaine? Back to Article

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Gerant K. writes:
on Jul 01 2009 10:32 PM

Awesome. Sukeban Boy is one of my all time favourite films... this looks like it may be a new contender for greatest film ever made.

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rockclmbr6 writes:
on Jul 01 2009 10:44 PM

I don't even have words for that...but I'm so glad I left it on all the way through so I could hear the COMING SOON at the end. Priceless.

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CalvinandHobbes23 writes:
on Jul 01 2009 10:59 PM

WTF, that was the weirdest thing ever
ROTFL

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Eric M. writes:
on Jul 01 2009 11:09 PM

that narrator really sold the line "fried shrimp"

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GST writes:
on Jul 01 2009 11:40 PM

In reply to this comment (#2520312)
Do you even need to ask?

Greatest, ever. It gives Gone With the Wind, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, etc. a run for their money.

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JordanKing writes:
on Jul 01 2009 11:56 PM

wow what an amazing trailer. i especially like the bleeding buildings.

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Zybon writes:
on Jul 02 2009 12:32 AM

I believe this genre is called Asian Exploitation Cinema

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ffamilyguy writes:
on Jul 02 2009 12:39 AM

OK.....well.....If you actually think this will be good...well then....um....you might want to go give Uwe Boll some Felatiao!!!!

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Shauna R. writes:
on Jul 02 2009 12:40 AM

Wow, I never thought I would see a trailer better than Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus.... but I was sold when the Geisha turned into a tank. Brilliant!

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Raziel5000 writes:
on Jul 02 2009 01:35 AM

Seems like an interesting portrayal of life in modern times where technology is getting out of hand. No doubt it will be a poinient, important take on the age old morality vs technology debate.

And I am sure there will be boobies in there somewhere too. Awesome!!!

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Marineboy writes:
on Jul 02 2009 02:29 AM

Kinda love it and revile it at the same time...

Yes, the sky is falling....

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Smartest Person Here writes:
on Jul 02 2009 02:37 AM

Man, easily the best movie ever!!!!!!!!!!

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Splitter writes:
on Jul 02 2009 03:08 AM

In reply to this comment (#2520274)
Hi.

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brandon s. writes:
on Jul 02 2009 03:27 AM

Hmmm....so basically a more violent and less expensive Transformers?

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Marineboy writes:
on Jul 02 2009 03:41 AM

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...just needs Megan Fox and BAM! Fanboy smash of the century!!

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Oli writes:
on Jul 02 2009 04:00 AM

LMAO @ fried shrimp and tengu milk!

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FURY.UK writes:
on Jul 02 2009 04:06 AM

.....what.....the.......&*%!

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rwaunlea writes:
on Jul 02 2009 04:35 AM

This looks like one of those movie-student projects which is just a trailer but no real movie. The giveaway is the credits page at the end doesn't have half of what it usually does.

Although maybe thats just because its japanese.....

Either way I think its too in-your-face stupid to really be a B-classic.

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Leon P. writes:
on Jul 02 2009 04:37 AM

I can guarantee that this will be better than Transformers 2.

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Matanuki writes:
on Jul 02 2009 05:08 AM

I hate you all for making jokes about this!! ;-) I am a writer, damnit! This sh.it is depressing.

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