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When the Yakuza turns up to catch her once more, Ami opens fire and takes out the highly trained ninja's who attack, leaving them a bloody pulp. A quick pop into her school backpack, and she's now sporting a gattling gun where the lost appendage would normally be. Subsequent revenge attacks on the rest of the gang, leads to their parents forming themselves into a combat outfit supplied by the Yakuza boss to take on Ami and the mechanic mom. When her brother and his best friend are killed by the gang,. For anyone unfamiliar with the latest trend in Japanese films, it's not the horror films being remade non-stop. The mother attacks Ami, forcing her hand and arm down into a boiling pot of tempura being cooked, resulting in a terribly burnt arm covered in the batter.
On occasion I've chosen to let you know about other films making their way to direct DVD release. It's not for everyone, but this film does offer something new, something fresh, something different. Too bad because the Yakuza boss captures her in his house and rather than atone for his son's actions, applauds them and tortures Ami, finally cutting off her arm in a garden hose type squirting sequence that is so far over the top you find yourself thinking "Where do they come up with this stuff.". Ami escapes and with the help of the mother of her brother's best friend, a mechanic, is outfitted with the afore mentioned gattling type machine gun for an arm. Ami and her brother live on their own, their parents having been killed.
Today let's look at something else. The story moves to flashback where we learn how it all began. If that sounds interesting to you, give this one a look. This is Ami and she is on a mission to seek revenge against this very gang for destroying her family. And if you're just kind of curious to see what other cultures do when they make movies in their native tongue, then give this one a try.
This is no ordinary girl though. If you laugh at absurd extremism then this film should have you falling on the floor laughing. But all changes when Ami reveals that she's missing an arm. The ultra violent world of Japanese anime goes further than this film, so it's little more than one of those cartoons come to life.
When a group of young punks attack an innocent pair of school kids, a lone girl dressed in school uniform dress comes to their aid. The battle kicks off in high flying ninja-martial arts style, fist to fist. So is the film entertaining. As I said, it's so far over the top as to be cartoonish in the gore and blood flow. THE MACHINE GIRL starts out with action from the get go. Afterwards you might even be ready to take on OLDBOY, another over the top violent flick that's become a cult fave among DVD owners.
Instead, it's a gore drenched action adventure films that are over the top in their depictions and filled with blood soaked humor. Her brother is picked on by the local teen gang led by the son of a Yakuza (think Japanese Mafia) boss. The final blood gorged battle between them makes for one of the goriest sequences ever filmed. Ami tries to get the help of a local law enforcement official who turns out to be the father of one of the gang members. And she knows how to use said gun as she begins cutting her way through bad guys, splitting one right down the middle.
Movies that never see release in the US (or at best limited release) that find their way to DVD. When someone gets cut, they don't bleed, they gush fountains of blood literally. Yeah, it is. If you have a more subdued taste or find gore not to your liking then by all means pass this one by. The subject in question is THE MACHINE GIRL.
For the most part I've tried to write here about mainstream DVDs being released. Barely escaping, Ami sets out to get revenge the old fashioned way.
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