The Machine Girl

Although she is quite tough and excels in sports such as basketball, Hyuga Ami is a normal high school girl. However, there is one aspect to her that is a bit different than other girls, her parents committed suicide after being accused of murder. With this dark cloud hanging over her head, Ami fights to get by each day with the support of her younger brother Yu. Yet, there is a major problem. Yu, along with his chunky, bespectacled friend Takeshi, are the targets of a vicious gang of school bullies led by Kimura Sho, the son of a powerful yakuza and scion of the Hattori Hanzo clan, the name of a historical samurai and a name that should be familiar to all fans of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill films. Going beyond the normal bullying and extortion, Kimura and his gang kill Yu and Takeshi. Ami, unable to gain sympathy from anyone, goes on a killing spree herself when she finds her brother's diary which contains a list of the people he would like to kill. After arriving at the home of her first victim, the insanity truly begins.

After Kimura's underling heads off to school, Ami is attacked by the underling's parents, the father attacking her with a double golf club attack and the mother deep frying the poor girl's left arm like it was a big hunk of meat in tempura batter. Ami, however, is able to escape when she throws some boiling water on the dad. That night, Ami returns to the home and kills the mother and Kimura's underling. She then declares that she is a demon bent on Kimura's destruction, however, unfortunately for her, she is caught by Kimura's dad and has her fingers and arm cut off. After managing to escape, she makes her way to the home of Takeshi's parents, two mechanics, who aid her and build her a Gatling gun that attaches to the stump of her left arm. Now, the true action begins.

The Machine Girl is obviously a film that had a limited budget which it tries to make up for by adding enough blood and gore to make fans of 1970s and 1980s splattercore proud, and by adding enough eye candy, the bikini model Yashiro Minase as Ami, the former adult video star Asami as Miki, Takeshi's mom, and nude model Honoka as Kimura Sho's mother, for those who like cheesecake to go with their gore. Although incredibly bloody and gory, The Machine Girl is so over-the-top that the buckets of blood and guts produce laughs instead of cringes. Campy, poorly acted, and bizarre, The Machine Girl makes for a bit of mindless fun on a boring day.

Its doesn't get much better than this if you are looking for offbeat splatterrific entertainment.
Funny....YES
Clever...YES
Good Story.....YES
Good Characters.....YES
Action.......YES
Stupid Good.....YES
Blood....YES
Invite your friends over..........YES

WICKED AWESOME>>>>>>>>YOU BET

My short review would be Machine Girl is awesome! Unfortunately short reviews are for punks so I gotta keep going.

Machine Girl stars Minase Yashiro as Ami, a pretty high schooler who's a bit of a tomboy. Ami cares for her younger brother Yu since their parents committed suicide after a supposed murder frame up leaving the kids to fend for themselves.

Amis brother and his best friend Takashi are killed by an extorting bully who is also the son of a Yakuza Ninja couple who are a few rice balls short of a bento box.
Of course the only way for a young girl to get justice is to seek revenge on the boys who killed her brother. Maybe that murder frame up in her families past wasn't such a frame up since Ami seems really quick to turn to homicidal tendencies. Even her brother had a list in his diary of people he wanted to kill, which leads Ami in her schoolgirl uniform to her first violent confrontation with a family of one of her brothers killers.

I don't think I'm giving anything away by revealing Ami eventually loses an arm in her quest for bloody vengeance. This leads to an alliance with Takashis mechanic parents. Miki, excellently played by Japanese AV star Asami, takes her under her wing and trains Ami to fight while Sugeru, the father, constructs a machine gun arm to replace Ami's missing limb.

There is one other star of this film. Arterial spray. This flick shoots as much of the red stuff as any Lone Wolf and Cub film. Doesn't matter if you lose a finger or get stabbed in the head. Blood will spurt in unbelievable amounts. Half the film seems to be filmed in a pink mist, and that's fine by me. I haven't seen exaggerated maiming like this since the classic Story Of Ricky-O. As outrageous as Ricky-O was, the violence seems even stronger when it centers around a beautiful girl with an amazing smile.

I gotta tell you. Guy or gal, if you don't fall in love with the screen combo of Ami and Miki then your tastes probably run to the ultra fetishist or non human since both women are gorgeous, tough and sexy.

There are so many high points to this film. The Red Junior High School Ninjas, the Super Mourners Gang comprised of parents of boys Ami has taken revenge on. A chainsaw leg and a drill bra, I'll wait for that one to sink in, A Drill BRA rounding out the mechanics of destruction. Finger sushi, face nailing, the list goes on and on!

Machine Girl is a near perfect modern revenge flick. It is thoroughly entertaining and never takes itself too seriously. Of course if you don't like gore for gores sake, you may want to skip this one. I recommend putting the kids to sleep, getting some friends over and creating a drinking game based on this film and the copious amount of bloodletting. You'll be drunk before the credits roll.

Machine Girl moves into my top list of films to join such classics as Shaun and Dawn of the Dead, Battle Royale and Kill Bill to name a few.

Where does one begin reviewing Kataude mashin gâru (The Machine Girl)? With no spoilers, this film begins with great action which follows through the entire picture. Every single scene grabs your attention with no intent to let go until curtain time. Along with the gore comes a unique sense of humour that keeps even the most squeamish put till the very end. A very exciting, highly exaggerated revenge story with twisted humour that's sure not to bore.

Wow, what can I say about this terrific and absolutely ridiculous film. I'm just speechless, this film had my jaw drop to the floor so many times thinking "did I just see that". The Machine Girl is the latest gore flick that's also a tribute to old grindhouse cinema (check out the great credit sequence) and other films from the past. Director Noboru Iguchi completely understands this style of film, and the audience he's aiming for and you can tell from the way the film was shot that it also copies the styles of anime in the ridiculous poses right before a fight scene especially with the ninjas and theres even that cartoon sound effect. Ami and her brother Yu are struggling to make it on their own after their parents commit suicide after being wrongly accused of murder. Yu is continuously bullied at school by a crew of ruthless boys led by the son of a Yakuza clan and it ultimately leads to him being bullied to death and the boys make it look like suicide but Ami knows better, she goes in search of answers and she finds out that the group is led by the son of a Yakuza clan and basically gets her bloody revenge by killing, chopping and maiming some gang members only to be caught and tortured and then having her arm chopped off. She then gets her arm fitted with a prosthetic machine gun which is capable of blowing holes in people's faces and stomaches, there is also a Yakuza gang member that gets completely chopped in half by a chainsaw which I thought was rather cool, yes very nice! but some might think it was sick. This was the goriest and most over the top Japanese flick I've ever seen, it makes Kill Bill and Hostel look like Disney's Highschool musical. There is tons of blood and gore in this film so if your a gore hound then your going to love it but if your looking for a story then look elsewhere, the story worked fine by me cause it sets up all these gory and brutal death scenes and carnage. This has quite a few great fight scenes as well and I'm sure it will appeal to those of you who like gory horror/comedies and martial arts flicks like Dead Alive, Toxic Avenger, Ichi The Killer, Riki-oh etc. cause I noticed that a few scenes were also inspired by those films, infact it mixes alot of other elements from other films so its not exactly original and the acting was horrible but I think they've done that on purpose cause its so over the top especially with Ami's best friend who's high pitched and whiny voice sounds like she came straight from an anime cartoon, but I still thought it was great and it was also a hilarious and fast paced gore flick that was alot of fun. This is what you will expect from the film! gallons of blood spraying from everywhere, severed limbs, exploding heads, guys cut into pieces, a mechanical drill bra and theres more but I'm not going to ruin the surprise so just watch it. Yes there are some cliches but I don't think you'll find a gorier film than The Machine Girl this year, I highly recommend this enjoy.