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.
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