Kataude mashin gâru (The Machine Girl)

2008

Kataude mashin gâru (The Machine Girl)

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A teenage girl shows the mob who's boss in this over-the-top blend of action, horror, and comedy. Ami (Minase Yashiro) is a seemingly ordinary Japanese schoolgirl who refuses to turn a blind eye when thugs at her school subject her little brother to needless cruelty. Ami retaliates against the vicious kids and their folks, which turns out to be a dangerous decision when she discovers some of them are connected to local gangsters. Ami is kidnapped by strong-arm men whose intimidation tactics include cutting off one of her arms, but Ami refuses to let the criminals go unpunished. With the help of a mechanic sympathetic to her cause, Ami's arm is replaced with a high-caliber machine gun, and she is transformed into a single-minded killing machine in a school uniform. Kataude mashin garu (aka The Machine Girl) also stars Asami Kentaro Shimazu and Taro Suwa. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Rating:

NR
Genre:

Action & Adventure, Horror
Directed By:

Noboru Iguchi
Written By:

Noboru Iguchi
In Theaters:

May 23, 2008 wide
On Disc/Streaming:

Jun 3, 2008
Runtime:

96 minutes
Studio:

Media Blasters

Cast

Minase Yashiro
as Ami Hyuga

Asami Sugiura
as Miki Sugihara

Asami
as Miki Sugihara

Yûya Ishikawa

Kentaro Shimazu
as Ryuji Kimura

Noriko Kijima

Ryôsuke Kawamura
as Yu Hyuga

Nobuhiro Nishihara
as Sho Kimura

Honoka
as Mrs. Kimura

Taro Suwa

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Critic Reviews for Kataude mashin gâru (The Machine Girl)

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Nonstop violence, gallons of spurting blood, outrageous humor (a kitchen scene is a hoot), extreme vomiting, a drill bra, human sushi and tempura, and other perversity.

May 28, 2008 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

V.A. Musetto
New York Post
Top Critic
A riotous blend of arterial spray and grindhouse glee.

May 23, 2008 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
Top Critic
Shameless gore, gallows humor and guilty pleasures are the byproducts of a mechanical plot and impressive helming.

Feb 21, 2008 | Full Review…

Russell Edwards
Variety
Top Critic
It thrives on being nothing but another mediocre Asian entry that's cooler in description than it manages to be as a film...

Jun 14, 2008 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed
one of those movies that is successful only because it tries to be bad

Jun 7, 2008 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

Brian Chen
Filmcritic.com
It's smart enough to really cut loose and relaxed enough to be funny.

Jun 5, 2008 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
Though bored at times by the repetitive artlessness of the gore ... I was entertained by the movie's sheer heedless hunger for the junk it's chewing up and spitting out.

Jun 5, 2008 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

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Audience Reviews for Kataude mashin gâru (The Machine Girl)

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Directors C Super Reviewer
Feb 09, 2011

Outlandish Japanese (where else?) gore-fest about a high school girl on a quest for revenge against the boys responsibe for the death of her young brother - the ring leader of which just happens to be the son of a sadistic Yakuza boss. It's completely OTT and tongue-in-cheek with some awesomely brutal death scenes, some of which are hilarious! And things get even more explosively blood-soaked when the heroine gets a modified machine gun to fit on to her newly severed arm - the result of a nasty Yakuza torture session. Very entertaining and never a dull moment rolls by, but of course it's an aquired taste and not for everyone. Didn't quite find it as good as "Tokyo Gore Police", but gore hounds can't go wrong with this one.

Lee ? Super Reviewer
Jun 08, 2010

low budget at times and it shows, but theres certainly a lot of gore on show, with some exiting sequences, and ways they die, not as cool as it thinks it is, and some hammy acting on show, but it does its job, and entertaining to watch,

scott g Super Reviewer
Aug 02, 2009

Wonderful. Definitely fits the label: So bad it's good. A must see.

Lanning : Super Reviewer