aeiou 11235 This is a completely mindless splatter and gore-film for people who consider fountains of fake-blood, flying body parts and looking at Japanese girls' panties a time well spent. Or in other words: one has to be very drunk, mentally challenged or sexually retarded to be able to enjoy this junk. I can imagine that an all-boy frat-house-party might be the right screening place.It's like watching gangbang-porn, with the difference that all penetration is substituted with stabbing, chopping, slicing. Instead of sperm you'll see ejaculations of fake blood and instead of sex-organs you'll see intestines and brain-matter. Same as in porn the act of f*cking / killing itself in all its weird variations is considered to be completely sufficient for a movie plot, but the constant flow of blood and violence is numbing and debilitating and it's honestly extremely boring.You will see random acts of cheap violence over and over again, nothing changes: chop chop chop, head body arm, left right across. So if you're the kind of guy who's hysterically laughing again and again about the extremely cheap and mindless cinematic execution of the same kind of dumb violent joke repeated over and over for 90 minutes then this might be the right film for you. For anyone else it's boring after 5 minutes.Conclusion: avoid by all means.PS: If you're interested in violent Japanese cinema then watch "Itchy The Killer" instead; if you're into weird Japanese cinema then watch any "Pink Eiga" movie from the late 70ies / 80ies. I'm not sure if these films are available outside of Japan though (I'm living in Japan).

billcr12 Another Japanese action film with a female avenger, The Machine Girl stars Minase Yashiro as Ami, a girl whose brother is killed by a gang of boys associated with the yakuza. She tries to fight back, but is beaten and has her left arm cut off. A couple of garage mechanics make a machine gun prosthetic arm which provides endless bloody entertainment, as Ami makes her villains into Swiss cheese with her weapon. This ain't Shakespeare, but it is fun.Ami and her best friend, Miki, who helps her gal pal with a chainsaw, track down the yakuza at their hideout, and this leads to a vicious battle with limbs flying everywhere. It's Kill Bill without Tarantino's wit. The girls are cute and the action frequent, so just sit back and watch the pair of Asian beauties who will surely give you a happy ending.

tedg There's something disturbing about American filmmakers going to other cultures to borrow porn tropes. "Kill Bill" just never seemed right, like a traditional Jewish grandmother making Tacos for her goyim daughter-in-law's brownie troop because she thought that's what it was all about.Today, when we watch influential French new wave films, we laugh when we see that much of what they thought movies were about was poses of actors that had become cultural tokens. We see how shallow that vocabulary is for all its power. That is why, if I want to experience pure trash for whatever reason, it needs to be genuine trash. That's what this is. It is empty and offensively trivial but at least it is pure, genuine. That gives us as viewers something to build a story upon, because it exists and is popular. Kids, panties, coy girls turned terrifying ninjas. Injury always as explosive demonstration. Parents as swirling misdirected forces. You can get something from this because it is situated in its source. Seeing a fecund Rose McGowan with a machine gun leg killing those looking up her crotch, is fundamentally different from the frail, barely pubescent sister with the machine gun arm.Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.

julian kennedy Machine Girl (Kataude mashin gâru): 7 out of 10: People in Japan must have very high blood pressure. They don’t bleed in Machine Girl, as much as they outright gush gallons of the red stuff. The effect is so over the top it adds a sense of outrageous humor to what could have been a fairly grim affair. After all the story concerns a college girl who gets a prosthetic weapon attached to her elbow after a member of the Yakuza amputates her lower arm to disused her from investigating the suiciding of her younger brother.This quick synopsis actually understates the depravity our heroine undergoes before she gets all Death Wish on anyone with a shiny business suit.Our Rick Allenesqe heroine is played by the delightful and delicious Japanese model/actress Minase Yashiro. In fact one of the movies strong points is a quite attractive cast wearing schoolgirl outfits and cameo like some cosplayers wet dream. Mono-named Asami and Honoka join Yashiro to round out the attractive female cast.Machine Girl however never really hooks the viewer emotionally. It is all so over the top and cartoonish. Exploitation films often benefit from allowing the audience to get emotionally involved with the characters (Think Mad Max or Savage Streets). I don’t blame the actresses in this case; I simply think the script could have taken a breather from the silliness to add some much needed poignancy.The entire film plays like an overlong Monty Python skit. It has great set pieces, decent special effects and enough fetish material to keep a Chaku-ero fan in his basement for a week. It simply doesn’t tell a compelling story, nor does it allow one to become attached to any of the characters involved.That said however, I simply cannot dislike a film that features a bra made out of industrial drills. So turn you mind off, send the misses out shopping and enjoy.