best movie i've ever seen.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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.

This is so over the top full of gore that even if you aren't into Asian flicks you will love it. Everything gorehounds love is available in this entertaining flick. The red stuff is sputtering all over bodies, even on the camera lens. There are decapitations, ninja fighting, bodies been cut in two, beheading, bodies being burned an of course you just can't take it seriously. If someone would encounter the things that are happening with the main lead you just won't survive it. But if you watch the opening credits than it's clear that they wanted to make some kind of exploitation. The surely succeeded in it. There are naturally some use of CGI and some cheap effects or stupid mistakes for example when one of the girls is being killed you still can see her heart beating in her neck. Nevertheless, big fun. And I was lucky to have met Asami, one of the coming stars in the genre, she was so friendly, I even had signed this DVD and had a picture together with her.

Life in Japan is tough for school-kids. Constantly terrorised by katana-happy sons of ninja-yakuza can have one hell of an influence on the psyche. Fortunately given Japanese youth have seemingly unparalleled survival instincts most of the kids have serious kung-pow powers. Especially adequately Asian-porn attired schoolgirls. After bullies incite the death of Yu Hyuga (Ryôsuke Kawamura) his big sis Ami (Minase Yashiro) decides to go out with a vengeance killing whoever comes in her path. Even losing an arm does not weaken her resolve to kick bottoms, so with the help of allies she mounts a machine gun on her stub and initiates a sequence of events, which will require about 1000 litres of tomato juice from the SFX crew.In this absurd crash course into Japanese ultragore nothing really seems to hit home. The plot and acting is laughable, but given the whole movie is basically an overlong joke, that isn't much of an issue. Watching such a ridiculously bloody film with arm-chainsaws, leg-chainsaws, finger sushi and drill bras you don't expect to be in awe with the script. You basically expect no-holds-barred fun.Nonetheless the movie fails in its ridiculousness, as it quickly becomes tedious and tiresome. And I am not one to criticise a movie for corny gore, as I fond of movies such as "Ichi the Killer" and "Tokyo Gore Police" immensely entertaining. Nonetheless in "The Machine Girl" the mix never works, which in a large part is owing to overlong build-up with lack of plotting to keep you interested. The movie may be audacious, but that it itself is not enough to keep the eye focused.

"The Machine Girl" I thought for sure that I had had enough of the "Tokyo Shock" scene after seeing "Tokyo Gore Police", after seeing that film I nearly gave up on the sub-genre all together. Feeling froggy I figured it would be safe going with a Tokyo shock as long as it wasn't written and directed by Yoshihiro Nishimura. It was OK that he had done the FX, his work in that department is really quite good. Instead I went the safe route (really sarcastic) with porn director Noburu Iguchi's " The Machine Girl" Thank goodness there was no penis gun this time around. Just your classic "Tokyo Shock" Nishimura style! Fingers, heads, arms all cut off with the single swipe of a Katana blade. Imagine again the fan like sprays of blood in full force."The Machine Girl" was a very stylistic, well written and acted yarn that spins itself around young High Schooler Ami Hyuga (MInase Yashiro).When Ami's brother Yu and his friend Takeshi are murdered by a young gang, led by the son of a Yakuza Clan Leader, Ami stricken with anguish, vows to avenge her brother, doing whatever it takes, including becoming a "demon" for her family and tracking down his killers."The Machine Girl" was a really cool film with elements of "Master of the Flying Guillotine" "Mighty Morphine Power Rangers", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and Tekken. The Yakuza boss is a dead on ringer of "Heihachi Mishima, he even sounded like him too. This film never really takes it self too seriously and exploits itself in all the right ways. The characters were all very likable and stylized end over end.One scene in particular that really stood out, raised it's arm, waived and screamed at the top of its cinematic lungs, was when Ami visits the home of one of the young gang members. She extracts info from him and proceeds to cutting his head off, the scene cuts to his mother setting the table for dinner when suddenly the power goes out and suddenly back on. Well, in that short amount of time, Ami put his head in a stew pot and when the mother opens it to see her sons head inside, she screams, giving Ami the moment to stab her in the back of the head with a kitchen knife. What comes out of her mouth is , including pints of blood, a bit of her intestine, yellow puss? I think? The camera cuts from her mouth spewing to the stew put filling and covering the boys head or the hand in boiling oil making a Tempura hand. Really intense and very well done( In a exploitive, over the top sort of way). Ohh, I forgot to mention that Ami loses her arm during a torture scene led by the Yakuza boss and his clan, including his sadistic wife. Only to have a Gatling gun prosthesis to replace it."TMG" is nothing but style and fun. The ninja "Mighty Morphine Power Ranger" looking scenes were very cool and any time you have a flying guillotine grabbing peoples heads and legs and ripping them off and showing it, is pretty freaking amazing too. Chime in the bra drill in the closing scene and you have an exploitation film at its very best. The film does exactly the way you want it to do. No weird twists and turns or perverse scenes to derail this locomotive of shocking fun. Interesting that a porn director has no nudity in the film, but a very nice touch. For a good time....check out " The Machine Girl" BruceVain