Review of Tokyo Gore Police (2008) by Caroline F — 16 Feb 2009

TOKYO GORE POLICE (TGP) is one of those films that comes along ever-so rarely; despite the fact it's a (nearly) non-stop gore-fest that'd make H.G. Lewis and (old) Peter Jackson puke, it also has that indescribable "thing" that makes a cult film a GENUINE cult film.

From it's opening roof-top raid that brings the opening scene from the original DAWN OF THE DEAD to mind (right before getting into some insane dual-chainsaw mayhem), to it's STREET TRASH meets SHIVERS ultra-satisying ending, TOKYO GORE POLICE is all that and a bag of limbs. And guts. And geysers upon geysers of the red stuff (I think more stage blood was used in this film than any other I can think of).

The gore-gous Eihi Shiina plays sword-wielding cop Ruka, the ultimate exterminator of "Engineers," a group of bio-engineered mass murderers who, when wounded, mutate into stronger killers with even fiercer weapons. When Ruka eventually tracks down the head of the Engineers, a nifty back-story is explained to tie-up the slight confusion so we can get back to enjoying the comic-book styled carnage.

TGP features a "canteena" scene that'll make you forget all about the one in the original STAR WARS, the wickedest castration scene since I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE, an attack by an alligator-hooker-mutant (!) and so many more inventive, bizarro action sequences I couldn't even keep track of them. Add a plus here for some hysterical commercials seen throughout the film, as well as a varied and ass-kicking soundtrack.

I'm not a big fan Asian cinema, but TGP blew me away. A must see for lovers of twisted cinema.