Kataude mashin gâru

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1050160/
a.k.a. One armed machine girl
Noboru Iguchi writer and director has made a outstanding actionpacked, funny movie that surely will become a classic - if it´s not allready is one.
Violence has never been this fun before. Or maby it has? More on that in another review.

Ami Hyuga (Minase Yashiro) and her little brother Yu (Ryôsuke Kawamura) are orphans. Her brother looks up to her, but there is nothing on what the little funnny and the totally charming Yoshie (Noriko Kijima) does, she even tells Ami; If you where I boy, I might have fallen for you.

Ami and Yoshie













Yu got mobbed by a young boy whos family are the Yakuuza, after a tragic event Yu dies. Ami early in the movie has said - I don´t believe in violence. Now that is about to change, Big Time.

Without saying to much there is a Lot of blood, A Lot. The blood ”fly” out of the wonds like when you use a highpresser machine and cleaning some furniture or something. Ami gets tortured and beaten, but just before she is about to be killed, she manage to escape with only one arm. Now it is time for Ami to get her revenge.

Ami kicks ass













It is Always uplifting to see girls kicking ass like Ami and Mika (Asami) does in this high octane blood splat feast. Sure they got beaten pretty bad themself, but they are the tough ones in this movie. Men weting their pants, and shakes like leafs as soon as a group of ninjas approaches. We got drill bras, buckets of blood, ingenious weapons, crazy kills and lots and lots of fun.

Kataude mashin gâru has the perfect comic book feeling to it and if you like that kind of violence, spiced with japanese humor, you just can´t do anything else but love this movie.

Ami gets beaten













Minase Yashiro is fantastic as Ami, the whole cast is infact great. Noriko Kijima as Yoshie became so popular that she got a 22 minute sequal - an spin off - and that one might be even more crazy and fun then Kataude mashin gâru - don´t ask me how it is possible.

Iguchi Noboru writer and director have so much fantasy and imagination and I´m really looking forward to more movies from him. I may go to far here, but he is a genius. Find out why if you allready haven´t.


To sum this movie up, I have to quote Minase Yashiro; Messy but fun.
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I´ll blast you to pieces
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O great Hanzo Hattori. Provide this girl with great pain and suffering.
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Trailers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c9Sbyn0kmg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFLdaC-xrLM

Official site
http://www.spopro.net/machinegirl/

Iguchi Noborus blog
http://blog.livedoor.jp/iguchinoboru/

Various posters