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Itsuji Itao | ... |
Key Man & His Father
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Yukihide Benny | ... |
TOKYO POLICE Chief Officer
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Jiji Bû | ... |
Barabara-MAN
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Ikuko Sawada | ... |
Bar INDEPENDANT Owner
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Cay Izumi | ... |
Dog Girl
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Mame Yamada |
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Ayano Yamamoto |
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Akane Akanezawa | ... |
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Tsugumi Nagasawa | ... |
Alligator Girl
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Maiko Asano |
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Daisuke Matsuki |
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Naofumi Murata |
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Takashi Shimizu |
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Oppe Ma | ... |
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Set in a future-world vision of Tokyo where the police have been privatized and bitter self-mutilation is so casual that advertising is often specially geared to the "cutter" demographic, this is the story of samurai-sword-wielding Ruka and her mission to avenge her father's assassination. Ruka is a cop from a squad whose mission is to destroy homicidal mutant humans known as "engineers" possessing the ability to transform any injury to a weapon in and of itself. Written by Anonymous
Wowza! Along the lines of Evil Dead and Dead Alive, this splatterfest is sure to be a cult classic. Eihi Shiina, famous for playing the crazy girl in Takashi Miike's Audition, stars as a member of Tokyo's police force. Her specialty is hunting "engineers", genetically modified humans who can reconstitute their flesh wounds as weapons. I think 90% of this film's budget was spent on red Kool-Ade and fire hoses. Every severed limb produces approximately 30 gallons of fake blood. A movie like this can easily become repetitive and thus boring, but the true worth of Tokyo Gore Police comes from its endless inventiveness. Yoshihiro Nishimura, who has spent his career up to now as a makeup artist, keeps upping the ante, showing us some horrible new thing we've never seen previously in every sequence. It's all extraordinarily disgusting and depraved, but it's the best film of this type I've seen in a while.