Synopsis
The Sushi Bites Back!
A disgruntled researcher injects his former employers' meal with a serum that turns their sushi into flesh-eating monsters.
2012 ‘デッド寿司’ Directed by Noboru Iguchi
A disgruntled researcher injects his former employers' meal with a serum that turns their sushi into flesh-eating monsters.
Detdo Sushi, Deddo sushi (Dead Sushi), 데드 스시, Ölüm Yemeği, 死亡寿司, 死亡壽司
Need a light hearted film with gratuitous violence and gore about fornicating killer sushi!
Some days you just need a killer sushi film :D This was a hoot and the one singing sushi was just adorable <3
Day 6. Watch a horror from 2010's you missed.
I grunt-snort-choke laughed my way through this.
I've waitressed in my time and watching the snotty wankery brought back some funny times.
Let me reenergise you with this syringe of glowing green. Fly my pretty wahhahaha
Sushi so fresh it bites back. Close your eyes and dive in. Ew body sushi, what could go wrong here. At least there's robot dancing.
Possessed angry sushi, hunners o the wee blighters it's like piranha.
Bless wee eggy sushi, I'd keep him. Pew pew! Paired up with our heroine Keiko with her 2 finger sushi fightin they've got this.
The egg snog will put you off EVERYTHING.
I was in the mood for some stupid shit and boy this delivered. I remember thinking Zombie Ass was too much of a… uh… good(?) thing? But this thing really hit a sweet spot. You ever see a sushi take a bite outta YOU?! Well, that's 90% of what this movie is. Sushi takin' bites outta people and yuckin' it up like they're ghoulies doin' it. In general there's a lot of dumb cartooney sounds added in post to the movie. Smooches, farts, two sushi fuckin' on a tree… you name it. Total party movie.
Dumpster Fire of 2023 31/90
31. Watch a Japanese exploitation flick
Martial arts, check. Tons of laughs, check. Pretty girl, check. Great acting and
directing, check. Gory with blood spraying all over, check. Nudity, check. Over the top ridiculous and full of action from start to finish. The premise is so stupid so if you don't think you can enjoy a movie about sushi coming to life and killing people then you've already looked to far into this movie. Dead Sushi definitely knows what it is and never takes itself seriously so neither should you. Japan is known for many things: Gore splattered films, the mastery of the samurai, and delicious sushi. With those ingredients it's no wonder Noboro Iguchi decided to blend it all together to create Dead Sushi. As always, Rina Takeda is wonderful in her role. Sit back and enjoy this crazy ride.
utter over the top ridiculousness in mostly the best of ways. how can you not have fun watching flying murderous sushi chasing and murdering people while they maniacally laugh about it?
Review In A Nutshell:
Dead Sushi is ridiculous as the title and posters suggest, but this film manages to be fun in its excessiveness and manages to bring out some campy drama to add weight to the backstories of some of its characters, without falling to levels of self-seriousness. Just sit back and relax, and laugh your asses off.
Noboru Iguchi still doing his Japanese Troma equivalent. Basically a more slapstick take on Re-Animator, but with flying sushi and karate. Sophomoric and not nearly as funny as it should be (I’m more of a Nishimura guy), but I appreciated the piss-take on Tampopo’s famous egg scene and I always enjoy some silly puppet work, especially puppet sushi getting their fuck on. Plus there’s a great super sentai style villain in a tuna mask. And Rina Takeda is always cute and likable.
Putting pressure on the rice. Finding your own direction in a sudden splatter world. A flying squid making new friends (monsters). School of sushi. Eggy, the only monster sushi that matters. Rina Takeda and her own uniquely designed nun-chucks. Abundant use of uneven special effects, despite the charm. Sushi making and martial arts are similar (being really, really cool). Riding the sushi battleship, waiting for the familial love to be felt again.
Watched as part of my Hoop-Tober 2015 challenge
From the title and poster, I knew this was going to be a silly movie, but sometimes that's what you want to watch, right? Sure enough, it's pretty darn stupid, but executed with such gleeful enthusiasm by director Noboru Iguchi and his cast, that much can be forgiven.
Rina Takeda plays Keiko, whose father is a famous sushi chef (Jiji Bû). She wants to emulate him, but nothing she does is ever good enough. He even tries training her in martial arts to hone her focus and control, but it doesn't seem to work. She's clumsy and she'll never live up to his legendary reputation, so she leaves home to find her…
During a sushi chef's demonstration at a resort, an ex-employee unleashes a genetically-altered squid that attacks panicked attendees. Their only hope is a young aspiring cook when sushi pillowed in rice begins showing murderous intent...
About when the sushi roll battleship appeared, it became obvious writer-director Noboru Iguchi could craft a quasi-raunchy gore comedy out of anything. Sushi and sashimi spawning teeth, breeding, and creating zombies from those who consume. Rina Takeda is great either selling its self-belief messaging or battling a tuna man. Amid its mayhem, the midsection drags, but Dead Sushi rallies with an inspired sauna shower via decapitation. Uniquely Japanese yet not from Sushi Typhoon despite Yoshihiro Nishimura effects. Watched via Millennium Entertainment's DVD.
Though not as wholly enjoyable as some of Iguchi’s earlier projects (The Machine Girl, Mutant Girls Squad and RoboGeisha, for instance), there’s enough in Dead Sushi to make it worth the watch.
What it boils down to with these films, from my point of view, is the performances. And if the SFX are good and/or goofily entertaining, then all the better. The problem with this movie is: the stuff involving killer sushi does very little for me. Actually, I enjoyed all the sequences about the preparation (and adoration for) sushi much, much more.
Regardless, the film benefits from some very game performances, notably Rina Takeda, who makes apologetic, sushi-making-apprentice-with-wild-martial-arts-moves Reiko immensely likeable. But honestly, there are plenty of fun turns.…