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'Tokyo Shock' is the word. This site has it all.

This is all reposting and wrapping up some favorite movie themes. An Easter weekend can give you some silly thoughts. Just follow the links and pick what you like.

Three on a row and you're in. I called it New Japanese Gore (NJG) in one of my previous blogs because these movies definitely have some similarities. The hallmark is over-the-top violence, extremely graphic, chain-saws, samurai-swords and other sharp utensils, fountains-of-blood, chopped faces and limbs, split-skulls, brains and intestines coming out, penises cut off and some more exhilarating candies.

It's also 'new' because of the Woman-Anti-Hero. You rarely find this theme in mainstream movies. The main woman character starts in an underdog position and then comes back in a terrible way. The theme is not new. 'Not a Nice Picture' was an inspiration for 'Kill Bill'. But our Japanese friends gave it an extra push with these movies.

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'The Audition' (1999) from Takashi Miike was the first movie I would consider an NJG. Eihi Shiina (as Asami Yamazaki) amputated this guy's foot with a piano-string. Takashi Miike and Quentin Tarantino are friends. The opening scenes of their Sukiyaki Western Django from 2007 says it all.

The Audition Trailer is a Little Piece of Art on its own when you remember that this is a sadist-psycho-horror movie witch some heavy thanks to Alfred Hitchcock.

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Same Eihi Shiina is Ruka as a Tokyo police officer with a self mutilation syndrome in the 2008 innovative SF movie 'Tokyo Gore Police'. Sorry, I here mixed up with Maiko Asano with Eihi Shiina.

Ruka challenges a chain-saw-creep with her Samurai Sword in the first scenes. A Japanese Samurai Sword is a Semi-Holy-Object and only allowed for male nobleman. With these movies (and also in Kill-Bill) women are using this weapon. This must be a shocker for Japanese traditionalists. I give this movie a Cult-A-Status because there is already a-movie-about-this-movie.

Some Gore Trailer from the Tube = Here.

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Then I came across 'The Machine Girl'. A young girl (Minase Yashiro) got her left hand chopped off by a Yakuza (Mob) gang (oh, these sharp Japanese utensils are so awful) while they were joyfully butchering her family. Her prosthesis is a multi-barrel machine-gun that comes in handy in her tour-of-revenge.
The first five minutes of the movie is also the trailer.

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My latest find is Miki Mizuno as the avenger in 'Hard Revenge, Milly'. Same theme same gore. A girl goes on a killing spree after they murdered her family. Visually attractive, lots of action, no subtleties, a straight slasher, English subtitles. With many thanks to Dharmox for the upload efforts;

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Enjoy