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Samurai purinsesu: Gedô-hime

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1412334/
Yû Aiba is the Samurai princess and she starts with crousing a man severed head, continues with chopping of a mans nose and his ears… hands.. And the rest of his body.
Yû Aiba














This is a type of comic gore splatter movies from Japan that has flood the market the last years and either you love and understand the funny things in it or you just hate them. Never met anyone who have been inbetween so to speak about these type of movies. We can see small tributes to Peter Jacksons early movies such as Bad taste and Braindead a.k.a. Dead alive.

Beside the obvious tributes to Jacksons earler movies, there is also a tribute to Koroshiya 1 a.k.a. Ichi the killer ( a woman has a scissor like tool on her foot and uses it as a weapon).

Hurioken?














The thing with all these new splatter gore movies from Japan is that they all have been labled as horror. The reason is becouse they have tons of blood, but they are infact pure comedies and are made in a lowbudget (usually shot with handheld camera) and is so over the top that people (normal movie chritics) think they are horror when their point is to make people laugh at the carnage and bloodbath.
Beside, I can´t avoid smile at two cute girls dressed in kimonos pointing out oneliners ^_^















So with that out of the way let´s focus on what this movie is about.
A group lead by Mechas (humans who has transplanted bodyparts and sometimes chainsaws as legs) are out on a killing Spree, some of them (humans) finds a group of young women by a river, the men jumps on them and rape them (the rape scene is not however in the movie, they more or less wrestle around). 2 girls gets away and are later on captured and tortured.

Now one of the surviving girls, left for dead brutaly tortured, wants revenge and in order to have a revenge, she most have new bodyparts.
Tortured and left for dead













After she has been put together with the other girls bodyparts she meets a man who stands peeing. He gets a bit ashamed and turns his back and the following scene happens;
-You have seen one before, right?
She answers back; The rapist had the same thing hanging from him, but..
- But?
- Is that a Mecha component?
- Huh?
- It is so much more compact.
- Compact?
- Those men had such huge and grotesque versions

Beside that his thing is more compact he also is a master of playing an electric guitar, he actually use it as a weapon. Creating a soundwave so massive that people can´t fight him.
Gekko (the guitar man) and Samurai princess develops feelings for eachother with made me think about the korean comedy/drama Saibogujiman kwenchana http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497137/
That is however another topic and review itself.

Gekko and Samurai purinsesu













What makes Samurai purinsesu: Gedô-hime such a funny movie is the two female Mecha hunters and their scenes and the way their scenes has been edited with funny sound effects.
Sneaking is fun

You know that sound that are familuar from various pop up adds from the internet, it may not sound funny at all but as said before, either you love or hate movies like these. Also the movies are fresh and uses a lot of wierd ideas and ingenious weapons. Sure it looks like a cheap cheap, really cheap movie but it is so fun to watch.
So if you wanna watch a movie that doesn´t take itself to serious where women are being attacked with chainsaws (some actually got the chainsaw stuck between her legs… and another one headbutts the chainsaw) or strangled with a tentacle - whom she has been forced to deeptroath… this is a crazy funny splatterfest for you.

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- Well then, I ask your brain directly.
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- Before Buddha answers, you might be raped and killed.
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- We didn´t kill them.
- We specialize in rape.
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- The dead are so happy to live again.
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- Will I go crazy to?
- It is highly possible.
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- Who are you?
- Don´t play dumb.
- That´s a strange name..
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Official trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ctXBVbbDWo

Official Japanese site
http://www.samurai-princess.com/


Trivia
The director Kengo Kaji has wrote the screenplay for Tôkyô zankoku keisatsu
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1183732/
A review on that coming up
Also he was involved in the classic Uzumaki http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244870/
A review on that can be found here http://pekinobo.blogspot.com/2010/05/uzumaki.html


Need to see more movies like this?
Kataude mashin guru a.k.a. The machine girl
The best of the new splatter gore comedies (a review at this group allready) and be sure to get the double disc where the 20 minutes spin off incluedes. A review of the spin off here
http://pekinobo.blogspot.com/2010/05/hajirai-mashin-garu.html

Oneechanbara
http://pekinobo.blogspot.com/2009/07/oneechanbara-movie.html

And movies that review will be posted soon
Robo-geisha a.k.a. Robogeisha
63-fun-go a.k.a. 63 minutes later (a 11 minute short film)
Yattāman a.k.a. Yatterman
A action comedy based on a popular manga, directed by Takashi Miike and has Kyôko Fukada in a leading role.

Drawings

Something I did 2 months ago when the storm was aproaching..



















Kawaii - kono ai wa eien Momo san "HUFF"

















A tribute to the best movie ever made


















Not finished with this one, but incluedes it anyway..avant le test final pour Anna Asaoui

Nosebleed and fainting

Am I then being considered a opressed human being?

Lets face it is rather cold outside, so after some day with high fever wich has resulted in fainting and nosebleed among other things I have came to the conclusion that going outside without covering my nose, my face is by all means, according to the fascists in the swedish political party named folkpartiet, I am considered an opressed humanbeing... oh, yes I am.

Now, the folkpartiet doesn´t ofcourse want me or anyone to freeze as much so they will have nosebleed or even fainting. That I have to carry that to prevent myself for getting even worse, I have to take those precations however.
And, here is the interresting thing. According to the folkpartiet (did I mention they are fascist??)
folkpartiet wants, and this law has just been passed on, that no one should have the right to wear a niqab.
Why? Becouse they (the fascist party) seems to think that people should be able to watch facial expressions when they talk to other people.
Now, I am deafh on one ear and having about 40% hearing capability on the other ear - so I am in need of reading peoples mouths/lips... do I think that the new law is a good idea? In case you haven´t read the entire post, here it comes ONCE AGAIN; folkpartiet is a FASCIST political party. Or to You who don´t understand - No I Do Not Like The New Law.

Religious symbols are not a way of opression.
Religion is not opression.

Politics, Now - there you have the true opressionist and fascists and the swedish folkpartiet (beside the swedish democrats) are the biggest fascist scums of sweden, today. On second place? Each and every other political party.

Religion is about beliefs.

We, as a people have the right to chose to believe or reject whatever religion we want. We have the right to believe or reject any political ideoligy we want.
But, putting up new laws (treaths) against people for their religious believes are nothing else then fascistiod, stupidity and fearmongering.

So. Am I gonna cover my nose, my face in order to not catching any cold or starting to bleed from my nose in public?
The idea behind this post was that I would have ended this with something like; "No, as a pure protest I am gonna wear some facial mask."
But as longer into this post I have come, I have actually changed my mind so the verdict is like this.
Tomorrow, I might faint, I might have nosebleed and that is becouse of the unhuman new stupid law. Thank you fascist party and let me clean my blood on your doorpost, this will Not be pretty.. but as long as you can have your intollerant valoues intact atleast you and your followers doesn´t give a shit.

It is always someone elses fault now isn´t it?

















As a sidenote.
I am white/caucasian, all my friends are either muslims/arabs, japanese, korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese (Hong Kong residents), Colombians, Argentines (we love to talk fotball over the internet), Mexicans, french, turkish, Serbians a spanish couple (the guy is from Madrid (who was the center of the fascist government in the 40s/50s) and the girl is from Barcelona, I call them "Romeo and Juliet" and they smile, maby not for the simile on Romeo & Juliet, but that they have left their families and friends and that they love eachother and that they Don´t care what people have told them (from their point of view) that "your marriage will not hold, you are to unlike eachother".. now, 14 years later and 2 kids, they are as happy as ever.

Shuttle

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0880648/
Peyton List known as Lucy Lane from the tv serie Smallville and her friend Jules (Cameron Goodman) have been in Mexico on a weekend trip and now back in the US they check in at the airport and meet two guys; Matt (Dave Power) and Seth(James Snyder).
Seth hits on Jules and our new lovebirds grabs a taxicab from the airport. The driver (Tony Curran) is gonna take them on a trip none of them will forget.

Mel and Jules













Shuttle is a lowbudget (only $5 millions to shoot) and no real famous actors that I know of or have seen before. Some of the strenghts is the twists within the story, some might see them coming others might think some are “uneccesary”, as for the development between Mel and Jules, specially Jules secret.
The best thing however, beside both Mel and Jules being kidnapped, ducktaped, tied up and blindfolded it is that no direct violent or harm are done towards them.













The movie has some violent scenes and some scenes with blood but those are more for the sake of being there so to speak.
It is listed as a crime, drama thriller but I rather see this one as a sad story in the same mind as The girl next door and Martyrs (Note once again that Shuttle doesn´t have the torture or horror that these two has) or for that matter Mang shan a.k.a. Blind mountain and by naming those movies, it might spoil the movie for some, on the other hand see that as a really good comparison.

Shuttle might not be a movie of the year, it came out 2008, but it is defenitelly a really good lowbudget movie that I sudgest you get it and get it now.
Always nice to be surprised by a movie and Shuttle delivers on basicly all fronts.

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- Atleast we´re on american soile now, so you don´t have to worry about having your kidney stolen.
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- Asian women are so exotic.
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- Anyone of you having a tattoo?
You can either tell me or I look for myself.
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Official trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kobmtKcpsI

This man might go more insane if you don´t give Shuttle atleast one watch

Gamer

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034032/
In Frank Miller´s 300, Gerald Butler shouted “ This is Sparta!!!”
If he would have been given oneliners in this movie he would have shouted “ This is nihilism!!”

In a close future the world is controlled by a big corporate who have slaved the people by keeping them entertained by a The sims clone game, the game itself is as any game; played by real people, however Society as this game is called, has real people.
The game is a massive succes so as the society (not the game) goes more and more violent and nihilistic, just as the world we live in a new game is made; this time a Running man (the Schwarzenegger movie) and Batoru rowaiaru clone. In other words, people can see and control real killings as entertainment.

Some will see this as a explosive action packed movie with some funny/corny scenes; Ken Castles dance and songperformance; I got you, under my skin.
It is fitting as well as the name of Kable (Gerard Butler) wich gives the hint that he is connected to the internet (internet cable) or that the one big bad guy; Hackman (Terry Crews) that are being put into the game to kill Kable.
Gamer however is a satire of the world we live in and even if the plot may give hints to snuff (killing for pure entertainment) it´s not to be taken as that, even if the phrase; Life is cheap pops up from time to time.

It is ment to be a satire and to make you think (beside looking at the explosions and the many close ups on asses and breasts) it doesn´t gave me much. The idea is somehow overdone and made its peak in Batoru rowaiaru.
If you will you can see it as a fascist wet dream or you simply enjoy the explosions, big guns and bad ass men running around and shooting eachother.

Kable and many others has been put into this game where they will fight in a war against other murderers for the pure enjoyment of the slimy Castle (Michael C Hall) and billions across the world.
What I found interresting though was that despite the satire it didn´t gave me any feeling whatsoever, speaking of snuff movies, to sum up this movie I simply will quote the ending line from the spanish masterpiece Tesis; ”Ok, so what´s on the other chanel?”

Rewatch The running man and or Batoru rowaiaru instead.

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Ofcourse sooner or later they´ll be whistling my toon as everybody else would.
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Official trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2g94xQmtHw

Official Japanese site
http://gamer-movie.tv/

Why so much violence when you can dance and sing instead?