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The Machine Girl

2008 · 96 min

A gleefully gory splatterfest that plays its revenge rampage for outrageous laughs and absurd slapstick set pieces.

Tagline
It's Payback Time!
Overview
The life of a young, Japanese schoolgirl is destroyed when her family is killed by a Ninja-Yakuza family. Her hand cut off, she replaces it with various machines-of-death, and seeks revenge.

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Tone
  • absurdstrength 3 of 3
  • campystrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • revenge
  • family
  • violence
  • grief
  • betrayal
Places
  • big city
  • suburbs
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action9
Horror7
Humour8
Realism3
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
action, adventure, comedy, crime, horror, thriller
Directed by
Noboru Iguchi
Written by
Noboru Iguchi
Starring
Minase Yashiro, Asami, Yuya Ishikawa, Kentarō Shimazu, Honoka, Noriko Kohara, Ryosuke Kawamura, Nobuhiro Nishihara
Cinematography
Yasutaka Nagano
Runtime
96 min
Country
Japan, United States of America
Languages
Japanese

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