Directors: Tak Sakaguchi and Yudai Yamaguchi.
Writers: Ken Ishikawa (original story/manga), Yudai Yamaguichi (screenplay).
Cast: Dennis Gunn, Cay Izumi and Shinji Kasahara.
Sushi Typhoon's brand gets even more comic book like in this latest release, Yakuza Weapon. This film is about certain members of the Japanese mafia at odds with one another. That can lead to some fun, and for viewers who love Tak Sakaguchi's work in Versus, Battlefield Baseball and Deadball, it is one almost worth watching. The real carnage, however, means waiting for a long grueling 70 minutes.
The build-up works on developing the character of Shozo Iwaki (Sakaguchi), but in between his shouting matches, some may wonder if this mercenary has a huge chip on his shoulder. If there`s ever an analogy to another comic book character, he would be Japan`s answer to Marvel Comic`s Wolverine. And he`s far more abrasive. And...
Writers: Ken Ishikawa (original story/manga), Yudai Yamaguichi (screenplay).
Cast: Dennis Gunn, Cay Izumi and Shinji Kasahara.
Sushi Typhoon's brand gets even more comic book like in this latest release, Yakuza Weapon. This film is about certain members of the Japanese mafia at odds with one another. That can lead to some fun, and for viewers who love Tak Sakaguchi's work in Versus, Battlefield Baseball and Deadball, it is one almost worth watching. The real carnage, however, means waiting for a long grueling 70 minutes.
The build-up works on developing the character of Shozo Iwaki (Sakaguchi), but in between his shouting matches, some may wonder if this mercenary has a huge chip on his shoulder. If there`s ever an analogy to another comic book character, he would be Japan`s answer to Marvel Comic`s Wolverine. And he`s far more abrasive. And...
- 3/25/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (Ed Sum)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
By MoreHorror.com
Hailed by the creators as the splatter-ific, kick-tastic, raunchy riff on the X-Men Movies, Mutant Girls Squad debuts on Blu-ray™ + DVD Combo Pack and DVD May 22nd. Bonus materials include featurettes, interviews with the filmmakers and the short film Yoshi Zero. Check out all the details below as well as the trailer.
Three leaders in the Japanese splatter movement -- Noboru Iguchi (The Machine Girl), Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police) and Tak Sakaguchi (Yoroi: Samurai Zombie) -- join forces to bring three times the heart-pounding action, three times the jaw-dropping comedy and three times the head-exploding splatter of your average action/horror/comedy with Mutant Girls Squad, debuting on Blu-ray™ + DVD Combo Pack and DVD May 22nd from Well Go USA Entertainment.
A soon-to-be cult film from the prolific Japanese cult film label Sushi Typhoon, Mutant Girls Squad is touted as a warped version of X-men, adapted into the violent,...
Hailed by the creators as the splatter-ific, kick-tastic, raunchy riff on the X-Men Movies, Mutant Girls Squad debuts on Blu-ray™ + DVD Combo Pack and DVD May 22nd. Bonus materials include featurettes, interviews with the filmmakers and the short film Yoshi Zero. Check out all the details below as well as the trailer.
Three leaders in the Japanese splatter movement -- Noboru Iguchi (The Machine Girl), Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police) and Tak Sakaguchi (Yoroi: Samurai Zombie) -- join forces to bring three times the heart-pounding action, three times the jaw-dropping comedy and three times the head-exploding splatter of your average action/horror/comedy with Mutant Girls Squad, debuting on Blu-ray™ + DVD Combo Pack and DVD May 22nd from Well Go USA Entertainment.
A soon-to-be cult film from the prolific Japanese cult film label Sushi Typhoon, Mutant Girls Squad is touted as a warped version of X-men, adapted into the violent,...
- 3/20/2012
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Fans of high flying spurts of arterial spray will be jazzed to learn that thanks to Well Go USA they'll soon be able to enjoy every splattery good drop of red in glorious 1080p!
From the Press Release
Three leaders in the Japanese splatter movement -- Noboru Iguchi (The Machine Girl), Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police) and Tak Sakaguchi (Yoroi: Samurai Zombie) -- join forces to bring three times the heart-pounding action, three times the jaw-dropping comedy and three times the head-exploding splatter of your average action/horror/comedy with Mutant Girls Squad, debuting on Blu-ray™ + DVD Combo Pack and DVD May 22nd from Well Go USA Entertainment.
A soon-to-be cult film from the prolific Japanese cult film label Sushi Typhoon, Mutant Girls Squad is touted as a warped version of X-men, adapted into the violent, body-horror-filled universe of the three directors. Mutant Girls Squad focuses on Rin, a beautiful...
From the Press Release
Three leaders in the Japanese splatter movement -- Noboru Iguchi (The Machine Girl), Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police) and Tak Sakaguchi (Yoroi: Samurai Zombie) -- join forces to bring three times the heart-pounding action, three times the jaw-dropping comedy and three times the head-exploding splatter of your average action/horror/comedy with Mutant Girls Squad, debuting on Blu-ray™ + DVD Combo Pack and DVD May 22nd from Well Go USA Entertainment.
A soon-to-be cult film from the prolific Japanese cult film label Sushi Typhoon, Mutant Girls Squad is touted as a warped version of X-men, adapted into the violent, body-horror-filled universe of the three directors. Mutant Girls Squad focuses on Rin, a beautiful...
- 3/19/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
by Colleen Wanglund, MoreHorror.com
The gleefully twisted folks at Sushi Typhoon have done it again. The latest action-packed, blood-soaked black comedy Yakuza Weapon (2011) comes courtesy of co-writers and co-directors Tak Sakaguchi and Yudai Yamaguchi.
Based on an adult manga by the late Ken Ishikawa, Yakuza Weapon stars Sakaguchi as Shozo Iwaki, an extremely hard to kill mercenary working in the jungles of South America for the last four years. Shozo has been informed of his father Kenzo’s (Akaji Maro) death by two special agents with their own motives. Kenzo was a yakuza boss who had been double-crossed and murdered by his second-in-command Kurawaki (Shingo Tsurumi).
Upon his return to Japan Shozo is greeted in a rather unique way by his girlfriend (Mei Kurowaka) who loves him but wants to put a serious hurtin’ on him. Shozo, who is bent on revenge, goes after Kurawaki in a spectacular fight...
The gleefully twisted folks at Sushi Typhoon have done it again. The latest action-packed, blood-soaked black comedy Yakuza Weapon (2011) comes courtesy of co-writers and co-directors Tak Sakaguchi and Yudai Yamaguchi.
Based on an adult manga by the late Ken Ishikawa, Yakuza Weapon stars Sakaguchi as Shozo Iwaki, an extremely hard to kill mercenary working in the jungles of South America for the last four years. Shozo has been informed of his father Kenzo’s (Akaji Maro) death by two special agents with their own motives. Kenzo was a yakuza boss who had been double-crossed and murdered by his second-in-command Kurawaki (Shingo Tsurumi).
Upon his return to Japan Shozo is greeted in a rather unique way by his girlfriend (Mei Kurowaka) who loves him but wants to put a serious hurtin’ on him. Shozo, who is bent on revenge, goes after Kurawaki in a spectacular fight...
- 7/13/2011
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Here is the new trailer for the Japanese gorefest Yakuza Weapon, starring Tak Sakaguchi (The Versus) with a machine gun arm and a rocket launcher for a leg. There was an earlier reel leaked online with unfinished effects, but this is the official trailer.
The film is co-directed by Yudai Yamaguchi and Tak Sakaguchi, who between them have created crazy, action-filled comedies like Battlefield Baseball, Cromartie High School and Be A Man! Samurai School, and featuring action direction by Yuji Shimomura (Versus, Shinobi), special makeup effects by Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police, Helldriver) and based on an adult comic by Ken Ishikawa, who co-created Cutie Honey, Getter Robot and many other famous series.
Here’s the press release:
The team who brought you Versus have returned with another hard-edged battle royale featuring tough gangsters, deadly women and cybernetic penis implants! Working as a hard-to-kill mercenary in South America, ex-yakuza Shozo...
The film is co-directed by Yudai Yamaguchi and Tak Sakaguchi, who between them have created crazy, action-filled comedies like Battlefield Baseball, Cromartie High School and Be A Man! Samurai School, and featuring action direction by Yuji Shimomura (Versus, Shinobi), special makeup effects by Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police, Helldriver) and based on an adult comic by Ken Ishikawa, who co-created Cutie Honey, Getter Robot and many other famous series.
Here’s the press release:
The team who brought you Versus have returned with another hard-edged battle royale featuring tough gangsters, deadly women and cybernetic penis implants! Working as a hard-to-kill mercenary in South America, ex-yakuza Shozo...
- 3/22/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Most intriguing villain name in recent days? The naked human weapon, as played by Cay Izumi in Yudai Yamaguchi and Tak Sakaguchi's upcoming Yakuza Weapon.The team who brought you Versus have returned with another hard-edged battle royale featuring tough gangsters, deadly women and cybernetic penis implants! Working as a hard-to-kill mercenary in South America, ex-yakuza Shozo Iwaki (Tak Sakaguchi) is informed of the death of his gang boss father, Kenzo (Akaji Maro). Returning home after four years, Shozo discovers that his fatherʼs number-one man, Kurawaki (Shingo Tsurumi), has double-crossed and assassinated Kenzo, leaving Shozo not only in charge of what little remains of the Iwaki Family, but also burning with the desire for vengeance. After a titanic battle in which an entire building is...
- 3/16/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Twitch has posted an English-subtitled trailer for Yoshihiro Nishimura’s Helldriver, a new zombie film created for Nikkatsu’s genre-focused Sushi Typhoon label.
According to the Sushi Typhoon website, the story involves a mysterious mist that infects the human population of northern Japan, turning them into flesh-eating zombies. The southern half of the country is left uninfected and relatively safe behind a heavily-fortified barrier. However, there is disagreement over how the zombie epidemic should be handled. Should the zombies be protected due to their former humanity or exterminated like a plague? As the debate reaches a stalemate and the nation’s economy collapses, the government takes secret action. A chainsaw sword-wielding high school girl with an artificial heart named Kika (Yumiko Hara) leads a rag-tag team of zombie killers north with a mission to assassinate the zombie queen, Rikka (Eihi Shiina).
Helldriver got a secret screening at Fantastic Fest on...
According to the Sushi Typhoon website, the story involves a mysterious mist that infects the human population of northern Japan, turning them into flesh-eating zombies. The southern half of the country is left uninfected and relatively safe behind a heavily-fortified barrier. However, there is disagreement over how the zombie epidemic should be handled. Should the zombies be protected due to their former humanity or exterminated like a plague? As the debate reaches a stalemate and the nation’s economy collapses, the government takes secret action. A chainsaw sword-wielding high school girl with an artificial heart named Kika (Yumiko Hara) leads a rag-tag team of zombie killers north with a mission to assassinate the zombie queen, Rikka (Eihi Shiina).
Helldriver got a secret screening at Fantastic Fest on...
- 10/9/2010
- Nippon Cinema
Twitch has posted an English-subtitled trailer for Yoshihiro Nishimura’s Helldriver, a new zombie film created for Nikkatsu’s genre-focused Sushi Typhoon label.
According to the Sushi Typhoon website, the story involves a mysterious mist that infects the human population of northern Japan, turning them into flesh-eating zombies. The southern half of the country is left uninfected and relatively safe behind a heavily-fortified barrier. However, there is disagreement over how the zombie epidemic should be handled. Should the zombies be protected due to their former humanity or exterminated like a plague? As the debate reaches a stalemate and the nation’s economy collapses, the government takes secret action. A chainsaw sword-wielding high school girl with an artificial heart named Kika (Yumiko Hara) leads a rag-tag team of zombie killers north with a mission to assassinate the zombie queen, Rikka (Eihi Shiina).
Helldriver got a secret screening at Fantastic Fest on...
According to the Sushi Typhoon website, the story involves a mysterious mist that infects the human population of northern Japan, turning them into flesh-eating zombies. The southern half of the country is left uninfected and relatively safe behind a heavily-fortified barrier. However, there is disagreement over how the zombie epidemic should be handled. Should the zombies be protected due to their former humanity or exterminated like a plague? As the debate reaches a stalemate and the nation’s economy collapses, the government takes secret action. A chainsaw sword-wielding high school girl with an artificial heart named Kika (Yumiko Hara) leads a rag-tag team of zombie killers north with a mission to assassinate the zombie queen, Rikka (Eihi Shiina).
Helldriver got a secret screening at Fantastic Fest on...
- 10/9/2010
- Nippon Cinema
Japanese cult film fans rejoice! The masters of madness at Sushi Typhoon have just released the promo reel they screened at the New York Asian Film Festival, Fantasia, and the San Diego Comic Con online and that means your first chance to see Yoshihiro Nishimura's Helldriver zombies, Noboru Iguchi's Zaborgar robots and Cay Izumi as the Naked Human Weapon in Tak Sakaguchi and Yudai Yamaguchi's Yakuza Weapon! And there's a little bit from Sion Sono's Cold Fish in there, too! Get to it!
- 7/26/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Oh, what a night that was. As those following the Twitch Twitter feed already know the Canadian premiere of Mutant Girls Squad came at Fantasia last night and brought a few surprises with it.
Kicking things off, co-director Yoshihiro Nishimura and Sushi Typhoon producer Yoshinori Chiba hit the stage with Nyaff co-founder Marc Walkow - who also doubles as Sushi Typhoons North American press and festival guy - and dropped a pair of big, unannounced treats on the audience.
First: a promo reel for the entire Sushi Typhoon lineup including the first footage from Sion Sono's Cold Fish (very bloody), Noboru Iguchi's Zaborgar (very roboty), and Yudai Yamaguchi and Tak Sakaguchi's Yakuza Weapon which featured regular Sushi Typhoon star Cay Izumi as a creation known simply as the Naked Human Weapon. Whatever you're thinking right now is probably not far from the truth.
Next: Before rolling Mutant...
Kicking things off, co-director Yoshihiro Nishimura and Sushi Typhoon producer Yoshinori Chiba hit the stage with Nyaff co-founder Marc Walkow - who also doubles as Sushi Typhoons North American press and festival guy - and dropped a pair of big, unannounced treats on the audience.
First: a promo reel for the entire Sushi Typhoon lineup including the first footage from Sion Sono's Cold Fish (very bloody), Noboru Iguchi's Zaborgar (very roboty), and Yudai Yamaguchi and Tak Sakaguchi's Yakuza Weapon which featured regular Sushi Typhoon star Cay Izumi as a creation known simply as the Naked Human Weapon. Whatever you're thinking right now is probably not far from the truth.
Next: Before rolling Mutant...
- 7/11/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Regular readers of Twitch may very well recall us mentioning The Ancient Dogoo Girl a good while back. A low budget television series initiated by Machine Girl director Noboru Iguchi -- who then roped in pals Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police) and Takashi Shimizu (Juon, The Grudge) to direct episodes -- and produced for a minor Japanese cable network available only in parts of the country, Dogoo revolves around an ancient yokai-battling warrior revived in modern times. As you'd expect from an Iguchi project, the lead is not exactly shy about showing off flesh and the entire thing is shot through with crazy creatures and unrepentant adolescent energy.
The big question, of course, is when people would be able to see this thing. Heck - a healthy portion of Japan hasn't even been able to see it yet, so what are the chance of it being seen over here? Well,...
The big question, of course, is when people would be able to see this thing. Heck - a healthy portion of Japan hasn't even been able to see it yet, so what are the chance of it being seen over here? Well,...
- 1/29/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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