Tokyo Gore Police
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tokyo Gore Police |
| Original title | Tōkyō Zankoku Keisatsu |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 (shortened) or unchecked (unabridged) |
| Rod | |
| Director | Yoshihiro Nishimura |
| script |
Kengo Kaji Sayako Nakoshi Yoshihiro Nishimura |
| production |
Yoshinori Chiba Yōko Hayama Satoshi Nakamura |
| music | Kou Nakagawa |
| camera | Shu G. Momose |
| occupation | |
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Tokyo Gore Police ( Japanese 東京 残酷 警察 , Tōkyō Zankoku Keisatsu , Eng. "Tokyo cruelty police ") is a Japanese splatter film from 2008. Directed by Yoshihiro Nishimura . The film premiered on May 29, 2008 as part of the Japan Film Festival in Hamburg .
action
Tokyo in the near future: the police have been privatized and rule over the city. Manipulated people are up to mischief in the city itself. The so-called "Engineers" were created by the Mad Scientist "Key Man", who introduced them to an object similar to a key. If these people lose a part of their body, a powerful weapon grows back. The only way to stop these monsters is to cut off the body part with the "key". The only ones who are up to the threat are the "Engineer Hunters", a special military unit of the police that acts with merciless brutality.
Ruka watched her father get killed by a killer when she was a child. She then grew up with her adoptive father, the chief of the Tokyo police. Now she is the best "Engineer Hunter" in Tokyo and was put on the "Key Man". When they first meet, he manages to introduce her to the key.
When she finally confronts him, she learns the whole truth about her father. In fact, he was a loyal police officer who, however, spoke out against privatization. Her adoptive father had set a professional killer on him, the father of the "Key Man". That same day he switched them both off. The "Key Man" retired to university and studied medicine. In an experiment on himself, he injected himself with the genes of all known mass murderers and went insane. While trying to kill himself, he met the devil, who gave him the key. He copied it and administered it to a number of people in order to defeat the police regime. Ruka believes him and cuts him in half.
When she returns to the city, the police are completely nuts: they torture civilians and kill innocent people. When Ruka's girlfriend is quartered , Ruka finally bursts the collar: she kills every policeman she meets and finally confronts her adoptive father.
background
Yoshihiro Nishimura, who had already created the special effects for The Machine Girl , was hired by the production company to make another film. He chose Tokyo Gore Police, a remake of Anatomia Extinction , a short film he had made years earlier. The film was made for the US American uncut label Tokyo Shock and contains pretty tough scenes, such as fountains of blood, fetish sex and body modification . The brutal scenes, however, are completely exaggerated, in the style of the Grand Guignol Theater and the films by Paul Verhoeven ( Robocop , Starship Troopers ).
The propaganda spots, which repeatedly interrupt the plot, were filmed by friends of the directors Noboru Iguchi and Yūdai Yamaguchi . In Germany, a version shortened by around eight minutes was published on I-ON New Media.
Reviews
“It would certainly be wrong to gloss over TOKYO GORE POLICE into highly explosive, razor-sharp social and media satire. But it is at least as wrong to dismiss it as stupid gröl joke without substance. With its conflict-laden heroine and black humor, the film oscillates somewhere in between and thus stays in the memory longer than an ordinary party film. You can shout, but you don't have to be ashamed if you are careful. "
“Blood-soaked fantasy story, the images of which exceed pain limits, while the erratic construction prevents the narrative flow. A splatter and avenging film with unsympathetic characters. "
Web links
- Tokyo Gore Police in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Rodney Perkins: An Interview with TOKYO GORE POLICE Director Yoshihiro Nishimura. (No longer available online.) Twitchfilm.net, archived from the original on June 15, 2010 ; Retrieved March 27, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Andreas Neuenkirchen: Review. The manifesto, accessed March 27, 2010 .
- ^ Tokyo Gore Police. Lexicon of International Films , accessed March 27, 2010 .
