The Machine Girl (2008)
- Original title
- 片腕マシンガール
- Directed by
- Noboru Iguchi
- Genre
- action film, horror film, exploitation film, girls with guns
- Country
- United States, Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Rated
- 18
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 232 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A teenage girl loses her brother to a yakuza family's son. After her hand is cut off, she replaces it with a machine gun and goes on a revenge spree.
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What happens
The Machine Girl (Japanese: 片腕マシンガール, Hepburn: Kataude Mashin Gāru; lit. "One-Armed Machine Girl") is a 2008 Japanese-language horror action comedy film written and directed by Noboru Iguchi, and starring Minase Yashiro, Asami, Kentarō Shimazu and Honoka. An international co-production of Japan and the United States, the plot follows an orphaned Japanese schoolgirl whose life is destroyed when her brother is killed by a son of a Ninja-Yakuza clan. When her hand is cut off, she replaces it with a makeshift machine gun and seeks revenge. Special effects were completed by Yoshihiro Nishimura, who went on to direct Tokyo Gore Police. It was initially released in the United States on May 23, 2008, before premiering in Japan on August 2, 2008. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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