Bloody Chainsaw Girl
Year: 2016
Director: Hiroki
Yamaguchi
Rating: 6.0/10
This low budget
straight to video (I assume) blood splattering gut churning intestine spilling
panty revealing film is rather nutty fun if approached with the right attitude.
Which is not to take it seriously for a minute of its 76 minute running time.
Within the Japanese film world this fits in rather well as they have an entire
sub-group of films that are independent, made for video, over the top films
filled with gore and lunacy. Think of Machine Gun Girl, Chanbara Beauty,
X-Cross or Tokyo Gore Police. Clearly not for all tastes. Especially good
ones. These are in their own way the misbegotten grandchildren of the Japanese
exploitation films of the 1970's like the Delinquent Girl Boss and Terrifying
Girl's High School film series. Lower budgets and less nudity but just as
outrageous. The only place they can find a home is in the video market.
Giko (Ryo Uchida) is the school bad-ass
- a juvie delinquent as she proudly identifies herself. Skips classes, smokes
on the roof and carries a chainsaw with her at all times. The teacher tells
her to keep it in a case. It comes in handy one day when she goes to school
and discovers that many of her classmates have been turned into mutant cyborgs.
And they all want to kill her. Some are now super ninjas of a different sex
than they previously were, others metal heads literally with sharp jaws that
still talk after being detached and one has been equipped with body parts
that shoot weapons - even her er er . . . vagina can shoot missiles.
Giko though has a test to make up if she
wants to graduate and so simply saws her way to school leaving body parts
in her wake. Nero (Mari Yamachi) was once bullied at school and is now a
psychotic evil genius using her skills to turn her previous tormentors into
cyborgs. But she wants Giko the most. Based on the manga Chimamire Sukeban
Chainsaw by Rei Mikamoto that began in 2009. Much to my amazement it appears
that not one but two sequels have been made! Never let it be said that good
taste drives cinema.
