Profound and Entertaining: Tokyo Gore Police

I don't feel as qualified as Hedorah to review this film, but as I really enjoyed this film, I'll give it a go.

"Tokyo Gore Police" is the latest in the wondrous world of j-horror, second to only "Machine Girl" in zaniness and awesomeness. A virus created by "The Key Man" (so called as his calling card, like the puzzle piece of Jigsaw, is a key shape) turns people in "Engineers," people who once injured, grow weapons from the point of injury. The TGP are an elite group of engineer hunters, who track down and destroy the Engineers from further spreading the virus. Ruka, who helps the TGP track down the Engineers, is looking for the killer of her father. Ruka meets the Key Man, who tells her about the corruption of the TGP. I won't cover the rest of the movie, because it's just too good to spoil. Seriously, you must watch this movie.

What makes it so great?

Gore. gore. gore. And more gore. Like "Machine Girl," TGP is full of geysers of blood spraying at the slightest injury. One notable scene is when a woman at a transit stop is cut into bits and pieces, her blood put into bottles, and her dismembered body neatly placed in a box. Any viewer will be left speechless at how sublime this truly is. When Ruka is harassed on a train, she teaches a lesson by cutting the mans hands off, which literally rain blood. The scene of her walking away, in a modern version of a Geisha's gown, with an umbrella shielding her from the blood is truly visual poetry. I'm not saying that to be funny, it really is a wonderfully composed shot.

Weirdness. Japanese culture is one of the best because it fully embraces weirdness. There's a scene where an Engineer grows a crocodile lower body to attack someone. Another engineer grows a giant penis (never thought I'd write that). The truly breathtaking, speechless scene in the movie takes place in what I call the Deformed Fetish Pleasure Club. A blend of a freak show and a cabaret, the weirdness of this club reaches unparalleled heights. A woman is no longer a woman, but a flattened piece of skin who is addicted to morphine. One woman had turned into a snail, her eyes like antenna. Another woman has sprouted a penis in place of her nose.

The depth. The club scene is one example of how enlightening and profound this movie is. It shows how desensitized society has become to the most debased sexual perversions, and how people will stop at nothing to satiate their sickened curiosities. Interspersed throughout the film are brief commercials which show that the country has become a police state, relying on martial law at the expense of individual freedoms. Other commercials show kids eagerly cutting their wrists with kawaii cutters, which conveys the troubled state today's youth is in, and ironically how widespread violence is.

If you want to be entertained on one level by campy gore and zaniness, watch this movie. If you want to intellectually stimulated and ponder the state of society, as presented through ironic and brilliant satire, watch this movie too.  
 
The gore delights of Tokyo Gore Police await you!