The 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.
Plot
Ami Hyūga is an average high school girl whose world comes crashing down when her brother Yu and his friend Takeshi Sugihara are killed by bullies, led by Sho Kimura. As Ami tracks down Sho, she discovers that the bullies are associated with a ninja-yakuza family. She goes after the clan for revenge, but they brutally overpower her, cutting off her left arm. Ami escapes and seeks shelter with Takeshi's parents, Suguru and Miki Sugihara, two kindly mechanics who fit her with a multi-barrelled machine gun prosthetic. Ami and Miki (who uses a chainsaw) pursue the clan, massacring them one by one. Their victims' families, meanwhile, band together to get revenge.
More details
| author | Noboru Iguchi |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Tokyo |
| director | Noboru Iguchi |
| editor | Kenji Tanabe |
| events | revenge |
| genre | action comedy horror |
| keywords | chainsaw cut hiding place high school girl kill machine gun nothing one by one suicide |
| musicBy | Takashi Nakagawa |
| producer | Satoshi Nakamura Yōko Hayama Yoshinori Chiba |
| productionCompany | Fever Dreams Nikkatsu Tokyo Shock |
| publisher | Spotted Productions |
| theme | action comedy comedy horror exploitation girls with guns japanese splatter vigilante yakuza |