TOKYO GORE POLICE is one of the earliest and most famous of the Japanese wave of independent, low budget, cheap, gore/bad taste movies of which other titles include MEATBALL MACHINE and MACHINE GIRL. Having just watched it, I thought it was mildly enjoyable but somehow lacking at the same time. The plotting is simplistic stuff indeed and just a bare skeleton on which to hang a handful of action sequences, none of which are particularly amazing.
I'd seen other films in the same genre first, such as VAMPIRE GIRL VS. FRANKENSTEIN GIRL and HARD REVENGE MILLY, and thought that they were more entertaining. Still, TOKYO GORE POLICE has its moments with some truly outlandish special effects work typically involving body modification and extreme blood sprays. The main character is an offbeat policewoman played by AUDITION's Eihi Shiina who goes around killing 'engineers', who are genetically modified killers.
There are flying samurai killers, chainsaw deaths, a half woman/half crocodile, plus lots of sniggering, bad taste shots. The acting is over the top but not as frenzied as the directorial style. I can't help but think that the people who make this stuff try a little too hard with their limited resources; Ryuhei Kitamura handled low budget genre fare much better with the likes of VERSUS, which concentrated on style over cheesy effects. Still, it does remain enjoyable - albeit just about.
I'd seen other films in the same genre first, such as VAMPIRE GIRL VS. FRANKENSTEIN GIRL and HARD REVENGE MILLY, and thought that they were more entertaining. Still, TOKYO GORE POLICE has its moments with some truly outlandish special effects work typically involving body modification and extreme blood sprays. The main character is an offbeat policewoman played by AUDITION's Eihi Shiina who goes around killing 'engineers', who are genetically modified killers.
There are flying samurai killers, chainsaw deaths, a half woman/half crocodile, plus lots of sniggering, bad taste shots. The acting is over the top but not as frenzied as the directorial style. I can't help but think that the people who make this stuff try a little too hard with their limited resources; Ryuhei Kitamura handled low budget genre fare much better with the likes of VERSUS, which concentrated on style over cheesy effects. Still, it does remain enjoyable - albeit just about.