Synopsis
It's Payback Time!
The life of a young, Japanese schoolgirl is destroyed when her family is killed by a Ninja-Yakuza family. Her hand cut off, she replaces it with various machines-of-death, and seeks revenge.
2008 ‘片腕マシンガール’ Directed by Noboru Iguchi
The life of a young, Japanese schoolgirl is destroyed when her family is killed by a Ninja-Yakuza family. Her hand cut off, she replaces it with various machines-of-death, and seeks revenge.
The One-Armed Machine Girl, Kataude Mashin Gāru
It’s kill, kill, kill!
The Machine Girl of Death.
Ami already lost her mom and dad, now she lost her brother, ruthlessly killed by a Ninja-Yakuza clan. As she seeks her revenge, they kidnap, torture, and cut her arm off. Two mechanics build her an oversized retrofitted machine gun; locked and loaded, ready for damage! Heads will explode— Scanners style! fights with various groups will commence and her enemies will face the wrath of Machine Girl!
Blood splatter and bodily dismemberment, fried tempura arm and sushi fingers, wonky CGI and epic practical effects, bright red blood seeping out of cut off countless body parts. Machine Girl, where have you been all my life with all this grindhouse charm?
Hard not to like a film that has countless comedic set pieces mixed with choreographed ninja fight scenes, and chainsaw-wielding madness in the finale?! FUCK YES.
ima need a drill bra, stat!
Thank you Phobos Anomaly for the rec! 🩸
Bat shit crazy splatterfest with cheesy looking special effects that made me laugh so hard I nearly coughed up a lung!
Forget blood splatter this film is jam packed with human geiser's of blood going off on a regular basis!
Good evening and welcome fellow Children of Chaos.
Machine Girl Kelly? No wait that would be awful, talentless, and ugly. That is nothing like this movie.
I love how stupid this movie is. Like there is a scene where Ami is in this hallway confronting the Yakuza assholes and the mistress pulls a gun and shoots. Ami dodges and runs and the lady is like "Get her" So these goons pop out and start throwing shuriken at her.
Like dude, if she is the kind of ninja master who can dodge bullets, a few bits of sharpened metal being thrown isn't going to do much.
Also there are 3 ninja who put their swords together and turn it into this…
This was obviously made on a shoestring budget and with that in mind this is a really impressive movie. Great gore effects, fun characters, an average revenge plot, drill titties, every scene with the machine gun, and even the choreography is really darn impressive.
However, it does look pretty bad. I can’t look past some of the effects even with the budget in mind. The movie also needed more of the machine gun. There’s a lot of in between down time where stuff is going on but they really needed to just go full crazy with this.
Overall, highly recommend it if you like low budget, violent Japanese stuff.
God i love absurd japanese shit like this, its very flawed but enjoyable as hell.
(watched with balex and demon slayer)
Way more fun then I expected! A girl with a battling gun for an arm wages war against Yakuza. Every bit as fun cartoonist as an anime movie with over the top gore and blood. It looked like it was fun to make.
a bit overlong, almost too campy, and occasionally shot too apparently through an unremarkable DTV lens, however, the entertainment/goof factor becomes impossible to resist, especially when stockpiled with geysers of blood and chunks of gore in an essence of outrageous hilarity which seldom strays from its vengeful path that keeps on going and giving. churns out some total blasts of sequences to find new ways to bring metal to and through flesh, and the lead role’s one-eighty snap into hyper-violent psychosis adheres to this with immediacy, and total glee, reciprocating the thrill to the viewer, and taking us along for a ludicrous ride well worth the admission.
Great in spurts, but Iguchi hasn't really got the whole "cinema of attractions" thing down consistently enough at this point. Crude and comical practical effects have to make way for an unimaginative story too long. Starting the movie in a more exciting present sort of ends up feeling like a necessary promise of things to come, as she only becomes "The Machine Girl" like an hour in. Every scene with Asami is obviously gold. Four stars is a bit generous, but hey it's me rating a Noboru Iguchi movie so what do you expect?
Batshit ultra-violent movie about a girl with a machine gun for an arm.
Movie is completely insane. Super entertaining.
It's not a masterpiece but worth it for the craziness on screen.
Tampura Fried Hand / 10
Machine Girl runs the infinite ammo cheat and Asami has a chainsaw, what more could you possibly need from a movie?