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RoboGeisha Japan Movie 2010
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RoboGeisha Japanese Review

I have been waiting to see this flick for quite some time now but I was really disappointed by what I got. If you’ve seen the trailer for this one, which many people have, then you’ve seen all the best parts. Noboru Iguchi leans more into the comedy zone for his films but I was hoping for more of a Tokyo Gore Police. Iguchi previously directed Machine Girl which I really enjoyed and his style is evident here. Lots of guns attached to breasts, way too many things coming out of or going into butts and tons of really wacky, over the top ideas. What the movie was lacking was the blood spray and the action.

This one seemed to take a little while to really get going. There are a few moments in the beginning of the film showcasing some of the outrageous body modifications that the geisha assassins undergo. Two girls, the Tengu girls I guess I’ll call them, wear these crazy masks, shoot ninja stars from their butt and acid from their breasts. Yeah, this film is going there. The two of them and the sisters, the geisha and her assistant, make up the majority of the insanity. Each sister seems to be trying to one up the other by getting more and more robotic body replacements. First it’s a breastplate chain gun for one, then the other gets swords that come out of her armpits, by the end of the movie the two of them aren’t even really human anymore.

One of them transforms her lower body into a tank and the other can split in two, her bottom half walking around kicking everything and her upper half attached to a jet so she can fly around. The ideas are outrageous but the action is too short. There are a few big fight scenes. One is at the beginning and one is at the end, obviously, but in between it’s usually just very short action scenes showing off the next crazy idea for where a sword can come from. There is some good comedy in there and the big fight scenes are crazy to watch but the rest of the film was too slow for me.

Another big problem is the CG blood. Nothing looks worse than that and it’s always a big disappointment to see it used. Even more confusing is that some scenes have great usage of fake blood so why rely on the CG stuff so much. Nothing sucks more than seeing someone get a blast of CG blood to the face and then they don’t get any on them. I think I was going into this one expecting too much. I figured it was another in the line of the splatter flicks that Machine Girl, Tokyo Gore Police and Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl were. This film focuses much more on the outrageous ideas and action sets than those other films and less about the graphic blood spray and insane prosthetic effects.

It can get slow at times but getting to see the next geisha robot can make it enjoyable, especially at the end when the giant building robot fights the half tank girl. Even more bizarre is the bleeding buildings. When the building robot starts smashing up the town every building he hits starts gushing CG blood. I have no idea why but it left me laughing at least. While this may not have fulfilled my need for insane amounts of blood and creepy prosthetics, the next film by Iguchi should do it. A collaboration with Yoshihiro Nishimura, who directed TGP, and Versus star Tak Sakaguchi titled Mutant Girls Squad will see each man direct one-third of the movie, bringing their unique styles to their own segments. Now that flick looks like what I was expecting here. Robogeisha should be enough to hold fans of the genre over until Mutant Girls Squad comes out. Hell, it should at least satisfy your urge to see girls fighting with swords that come out of their butts!

Cast And Crew
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Cast:Yoshihiro Nishimura,Asami,Takumi Saitô,Aya Kiguchi,
Director:Noboru Iguchi
Writer:Noboru Iguchi
Release Date:10 July 2010
Genre:Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Language:Japanese
Country:Japan