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The most anticipated cyborg-amputee movie of 2008, Japan's The Machine Girl, is out on DVD, and here's the opening scene. It pretty much sets the tone: blood spurting everywhere, improbably fancy gore, and brain-curdling dialogue. (Sorry about the English dubbing.) But my favorite sequence, where the amputee Ami learns to be a super-fighter and first gains her prosthetic machine-gun arm, is below. (First clip is only work-safe if your coworkers love splattery blood.)
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The sexy Asian ladies of The Machine Girl show us how to kick ninja ass with heavy weaponry and loads of screaming. The movie makes its US debut this week at the SF Indie Fest. Check out the new Japanese trailer, that sprays its wonderful gore all over the lens, including the deadly sharp drill breasts, tempura arms, and a ninja football gang. The story follows Ami, a young girl whose brother is brutally murdered by a local mob boss' kid. She spends the rest of her days taking revenge, cyborg-style, and punishing the wicked in her sexy school uniform. Click through to see the American trailer, which has been out for a while. More »
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Welcome to MangoBot, a biweekly column about Asian futurism by TokyoMango blogger Lisa Katayama. Fight scenes featuring beautiful Asian women with machine guns are sexy, scary, and fetishistic. If you're in San Francisco in June, you're in luck—you can get a double dose of ass-busting Asian women at the Another Hole in the Head horror movie fest, where two crazy, ruthless Oriental beauties battle evil in a cumulative three hours of gory revenge and fantastical sci-fi crime-fighting. The Gene Generation and The Machine Girl are two completely different kinds of movies—one is American sci-fi, one is a low-budget Japanese gory B-movie. But when stripped of their decor, there are a lot of common themes and subtexts. More »
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