This film is filled with violence and gore, severed heads and limbs. So, why am I recommending it? Its fun to watch despite all that. The core of the plot is good. Ami, played by the pretty Minase Yashiro, avenges the murder of her younger brother Yu at the hands of a group of sadistic young people who are part of the Kimora clan. Ami's arm is hacked off in her first attempt to kill the son who caused Yu's death, but she manages to escape and is taken in by Miki, whose son Takeshi was also killed by the gang with Yu. It is Takeshi's mother Miki who goes along with Ami on this mission. If you don't like blood and gore, you can't watch this film. I normally do not like it, but this movie moves along at a good pace and Minase Yashiro actually does a good job as Ami. So, if you can handle buckets of blood, I think you'll enjoy it.
Plot summary
Ami is a typical college girl. She's bright, friendly, popular and athletic, with nothing to set her apart from other girls her age other than the fact that she is an orphan, left to care for her younger brother after her father committed suicide after being falsely accused of murder. But while there is tragedy in their past, the siblings' future looks good, except for one thing. Ami's brother has racked up a considerable debt to another boy at school, and that boy just happens to be the heir to a clan of vicious ninja-yakuza. Ami's brother can't pay, violence breaks out and in the course of trying to avenge her brother, Ami is captured by the clan. They torture her and hack her arm right off. Ami escapes, barely alive, and is taken in by the owners of a machine shop who build her a customized, bullet-spewing arm. From that point, the quest for revenge is on in earnest.
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Bloody, Gory But Still Pure Escapist Fun
Inspired Japanese lunacy
Sweet young high school student Ami (played with tremendous spunk by the adorable Minase Yashiro) has her life turned topsy turvy after both her brother and his friend are killed by sadistic bullies. After losing her left arm to said bullies, two garage mechanics create a machine gun appendage for Ami so she can exact a harsh revenge.
Writer/director Noboru Iguchi keeps the enjoyably absurd story hurtling along at a brisk pace, brings a blithely twisted tongue-in-cheek comic book sensibility to the deliciously demented premise (the whole sequence with the lethal drill bra in particular is simply sidesplitting!),pulls out all the exciting insane stops for the action set pieces, and even manages a few moments of touching humanity amidst all the gloriously gonzo carnage. Best of all, Iguchi pours on the outrageous over-the-top graphic violence with lip-smacking unhinged glee and gusto: Geysers of blood squirt and spurt everywhere (the red stuff actually sprays all over the camera lens in a few scenes!),limbs are hacked off, heads are completely obliterated, bodies are riddled with bullets, a hapless chef is forced to eat his own fingers, one poor guy has nails pounded into his face, and torsos have massive holes blown in them. Asami brings a winning sense of raw ferocious grit to her role as the tough and determined Miki while Nobuhiro Nishihara cuts an appropriately hateful figure as vicious head bully Sho Kimura. A berserk treat.
I've turned into the devil
Boy gets killed. Sister gets revenge against the Yakuza. To say anything more would ruin this oh so complex Gordian plot...not. Girl has machine gun on left arm which may or may not be better than the right leg. There are some plot issues, mostly involving biological impossibilities. For those who loved blood spray, I mean the fire hose "Kill Bill" spray, this film has plenty of that, plus torture.
Guide: No swearing. No nudity. Near rape. Idiotic cat fight