SAMURAI PRINCESS

What the f**k is wrong with the japs? Is it something to do with their post-war blanket ban on the depiction of pubic hair? The nation that gave us Hentai, bukkake, omorashi, kegadoru and vending machines offering shrinkwrapped used schoolgirl panties to sweaty salarymen quite clearly has a few sexy toys in the attic. So it seems their nationally stifled sex drives need to expressed in various other unpleasant fleshy ways. Here's the latest in the weird sci-fi gore bodyhorror genre that seems to be pretty popular with our repressed vertically-challenged asian brethren. Tokyo Gore Police, Machine Girl, Meatball Machine...it's along these (warped) lines.

Rubbery prosthetic phallic mutations? Check. Huge spurting geysers of blood? Check. Awful music? Yep. Incomprehensible plot with jolting mood shifts and spastic editing? Oh yeah. Just mental, like Bad Taste-era Peter Jackson directing an episode of Monkey. Spectacularly inventive gore effects but ultimately tiresome..the shrill "acting", goofy humour, cheap production values, amateurish cgi and generally overloud histrionics prove too much after about half an hour (what's all that nonsense with the guitar...?)

The story....group of girls get offed by bad men in a strange japanese forest. The sole survivor is turned into a "mecha" - a severely modified human - and goes off to wreak unneccesarily gory vengeance with swords, fists and bio-mechanical boob grenades. Dozens of overacting cannon-fodder get various body parts slashed off, skeletons punched out of their bodies, brains pulled out then squashed and stuffed back in, heads bifurcated, etc.