Phil Hubbs Talk about frenzy, this film is completely screwball crazy with guns and explosions on top! Quite literately a frenetic manga adaptation which is balls to the wall with massive fights, lopped off body parts and fountains of blood.Its Japanese and you do expect this but even this is insane, the plot isn't too complex and basically revolves around a Yakuza assassin getting vengeance against the killing of his gang boss father. There is double cross in there too but this film is really all about the crazy ass effects and shock value gore. The cost doesn't look too high as much of the effects on show are your basic old techniques which range from looking effective to down right silly but this isn't really suppose to be more than a fun low budget B-movie.Add in some outrageous CGI when 'Shozo' gets his arm replaced with a mini-gun and his knee turned into a rocket launcher (yep you read correctly) and you get some really quite daft looking results. Tonnes of carnage and a never ending stream of henchmen, both fun and stupid.The only cast member I know of is good old Tak Sakaguchi and here he plays the main role, it suits him well and he looks good with his little porkpie type hat on. The whole film swings from slick and cool to down right ludicrous and will only appeal to people who like these type of Japanese ultra violent comicbook films. Personally I think the original manga comic probably works better, I haven't read or seen it but clearly its something that's hard to translate to film (bit Like 'Tank Girl').5/10

KineticSeoul This is one of those Japanese movies that is so bad it's good or passable or so bad that it's awful. In this case it's alright. Sure the CGI and action scenes look so fake but it's not distracting for a movie like this and adds to the humor of it all. The fight choreography is designed by the team that did "Versus" which isn't really a good movie but a passable one as well. Everything about this movie is just plain wacky and cartoon like and to a degree it works. But the makers of this flick knows what direction it's trying to go. And it's a far from serious one. It's obvious they just mixed in their wacky vision with a shoe string budget. And to some degree it's amusing and that is what this flick is. It's a amusing action packed violent flick. Just when some parts seem predictable it goes in a amusing wacky direction that is humorous. Even the action is unpredictable and has shock factor to it. The protagonist is likable for a selfish conceited obnoxious yakuza as well and is a badass. And the guy can take a beating and when I say beating means can take a hit from a RPG. And his sidekicks are likable as well. Overall if you like movies like "Machine Girl" and such with bunch of wacky scenarios that doesn't make much sense and a lot of violent action that is over the top. You just might enjoy this one. I didn't have much expectation for this flick but my enjoyment factor elevated as the movie progressed.8/10

zardoz-13 Nipponese filmmakers Tak Sakaguchi and Yudai Yamaguchi co-wrote and co-directed the outlandish, larger-than-life, Asian actioneer "Yakuza Weapon" about honor and vengeance in contemporary Japan. They used Ken Ishikawa's manga as the basis for their screenplay. This audacious crime thriller resembles "RoboCop" in part because the protagonist turns into half-man and half-weapon after a radical surgical procedure. Furthermore, this epic boasts a high body count with cartoonish action sequences. Indeed, blood, guts, and gore splatter this swiftly-paced but wholly improbable contemporary shoot'em up with a double-digit body count. Sakaguchi and Yamaguchi never miss a moment to poke fun at their characters and their predicament. The son of a yakuza boss, Shozo Iwaki, learns that his father has been murdered. When he returns home from the jungle, he resolves to exact vengeance. Before it is over, Japan's best doctors and engineers have installed a M61 Vulcan in his right arm so all he has to do is snap his wrist and this multi-barreled cannon sprouts from his limb. Meanwhile, as a presumable back-up, our pugnacious protagonist has an anti-tank missile launcher in his left knee-cap. The worst thing about "Yakuza Weapon" is the marginal special effects, but this 105 minute ruckus never wears out its welcome."Yakuza Weapon" opens with this prologue: "In the mid 1950s, in the midst of post-war chaos, organized crime units known as "kumi" sprung up throughout Japan. They became the yakuza. The yakuza underworld is ruled by chivalry and loyalty. This is known as "jingi." If a yakuza violated the "jingi," there is hell to pay for the yakuza live and die by this principle." The action unfolds deep in the South American jungle as soldiers in camouflage fatigues with submachine guns blaze away with fusillade after fusillade at our fearless hero Shozo Iwaki (Tak Sakaguchi) and his two companions. The defiant Iwaki wears a fedora and a huge red sash around his waist as smokes a cigarette in front of them while uttering comments like: "You only get hit when you're afraid of getting hit. I can scare landmines with a glare! It's time to settle the score." He charges headlong into a squad of machine gun wielding troops and dodges every round they fire at him. Moreover, he manages to survive exploding grenades as they go off near him. Once he makes it to the shooters, he uses martial arts to fight them, taking on as many as three at a time. Even after he has disarmed them, they brandish knives and fight. After he triumphs over these troops, he steps on a landmine and uses it to catapult him out of the jungle and into Colonel Joseph's headquarters where they battle to the death. When Colonel Joseph opens fire on Shozo at point blank range with a submachine gun, our hero thrusts his iron-soled shoe forward like a shield to deflect the lead and then shoves it into the officer's face, burying several bolt-like nails into his face so that he looks like a sieve.Afterward, Shozo encounters two Japanese government agents who have news for him about his father. They inform him that his father (Maro Akaji) was shot 88 times six months ago when he left a Western Japan Yakuza council meeting. Nevertheless, Shozo's father remained alive long enough to kill his assailant. As it turns out, Shozo wasn't really on good terms with his dad. The last time that they spoke, his father threatened to kill him if he saw him again, all because Shozo wanted to take over the family business. For the record, our hero has been in exile for four years when he receives the new. Shozo and his cohorts parachute from a propeller-drive plane over Tokyo and head to a loan store that once headquartered their operation. Shozo encounters Yakuza business leader Kurawaki (Shingo Tsurumi), learns that the latter controls the family business, and betrayed his father. "Yakuza Weapon" is overboard in every aspect but delivers consistently entertaining material. Of course, there isn't a stitch of realism in this insane nonsense, but it is fun to watch what happens. My favorite scene occurs in the hospital room after the surgeons have grafted an electrically powered Gatling gun to his arm. Several machine gun toting dames masquerading as nurses enter our hero's room and he surprises them with his new arsenal. Literally, he shoots one treacherous nurse with a burst of gunfire that keeps her spinning in the air above him before she vanishes in a bloody explosion.

gavin6942 This is the story of a yakuza member who goes off to be a mercenary in South America, and returns to find the criminal underworld run by his enemies.While this movie has some funny parts, and the story has some level of potential, it is just so poorly made. The film quality is bad, the special effects are bad, the CGI is bad.The only film I can remotely compare this to is "Machine Girl", with one big difference: Machine Girl is awesome, and this film is awful. Fans of Asian sci-fi may enjoy it, I am not sure. But I just found practically nothing redeeming in it.My suggestion is to avoid this.