Dragon Blue
Director: Takayo Wada
Year: 1995
Production Company: Gaga Communications
Running Time: 76 minutes
Much of the running time of this reminds you
of some Saturday morning children’s fantasy film with a rubber suited monster
creating havoc – that is except for the occasional intrusions of nudity
filled sex scenes that might send the parents of these children running
in terror! It is an odd mixture to say the least and it’s hard to visualize
who the audience is for this film except for people who get fooled into
seeing it. Neither the sexual exploitation aspects nor the fantasy parts
are all that effective but the presence of the very pleasant and attractive
Hiroko Tanaka makes this a somewhat painless waste of time.
Mayuko (Hiroko Tanaka) is a feng shui novice whose
goofy master seems more interested in her legs than anything else but also
recognizes that she has deep yet unrealized powers. An apparition appears
to her of a wizard (Junkichi Orimoto) from Edo times who tells her that
she is the blood heir of the Clan of Dragon and it is her duty to fight
demons on earth. The other good news is that the forces that have been
keeping these demons imprisoned are decaying and the earth is in deadly
danger. If this was due to the ozone level being destroyed or simply the
everyday wear and tear of supernatural force fields was not explored. At
any rate Mayuko is less than thrilled to hear this – she just wants to
be a normal Japanese girl who sells her panties to make money – oh wait
wrong movie. But fate has a way of hooking you in to your destiny panties
or no panties.
A feng shui customer shows up at their office
to hire them to investigate some strange occurrences on the small island
of Tatsunomiya where he lives. Three years ago construction began on a
resort and soon afterwards workers began getting sick and people dying
– and recently some women were abducted and their boyfriends killed in
ghastly fashion. Mayuko arrives to find more dead bodies have washed to
shore and one of them with the face of a woman that she had dreamed about.
She also meets the daughter of the man who hired her – Satomi – a high
school student in love with a teacher – and she takes Mayuko around the
island. Even with all these mysterious killings happening, silly couples
are still having sex on the beach and sure enough it attracts the attention
of this rubber suited sea monster that not co-incidentally looks an awful
lot like the monster from the film “Predator”. The reason for this being
that it was designed by Steve Wong, who also did “Predator”. This monster
seems to double as a peeping tom and likes looking in on couples making
it. Give him access to the internet and he would be fine.
Our heroine teams up with a tough looking detective
played by Keiji Mutoh who I take it is a big star in Japanese wrestling
– he certainly has the build for it, but oddly his acting isn’t as bad
as one might expect. The two of them track down the monster in his lair
where he is keeping all his female captives – now looking like extras in
a vampire movie – to service his sexual needs – and it looks like the sweet
and surprisingly busty Satomi is next. Mayuko has to draw on all of those
dormant powers to defeat the beast and she sort of transforms into a hybrid
human to do so. The action is quite bad – the naked breasts are fairly
nice – and there isn’t much more to say about this film except that the
detective seems to like a girl who can turn into part lizard – but then
don’t we all.
My rating for this film: 5.0