Tokyo Gore Police (2008) - Kill Count | Death Count | Carnage Count

Tokyo Gore Police (2008) - Kill Count | Death Count | Carnage Count Tokyo Gore Police (東京残酷警察, Tōkyō Zankoku Keisatsu) is a 2008 Japanese action splatter film co-written, edited and directed by Yoshihiro Nishimura and starring Eihi Shiina as Ruka, a vengeful police officer. Tokyo Gore Police was released to several film festivals in North America. It received generally positive reviews, noting that it lives up to its title by being gory, perverse and bizarre. Eihi Shiina as Ruka Itsuji Itao as Akino Miyama/The Key Man Yukihide Benny as Tokyo Police Chief Officer Jiji Bū as Barabara-Man Ikuko Sawada as Bar Independent Owner Shun Sugata as Tokyo Police Commissioner General Tak Sakaguchi as Koji Tenaka Keisuke Horibe as Ruka’s Father Shōko Nakahara as Prostitute Club Owner Cherry Kirishima Mame Yamada Marry Machida Maiko Asano Ayano Yamamoto Tsugumi Nagasawa as Alligator Girl Cay Izumi as Dog Girl Sayako Nakoshi as Snail Girl Moko Kinoshita Kill Count Horror Kill Count Death Count Carnage Count Horror Kill Count Movie Film nostalgia critic Trailer Horror Count Fun reaction reviews Red Letter Media Chris Stuckmann ralpht the movie maker Jeremy Jahns Double Toasted The Cinema Snob While working on special effects for Noboru Iguchi’s The Machine Girl, Yoshihiro Nishimura was asked by Media Blasters if he wanted to do another film. Nishimura decided to make Tokyo Gore Police, a remake of an independent film that he made many years before called Anatomia Extinction which received the Special Jury Award in the Off Theatre competition at the 1995 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival.[1][2] Shot and completed in just two weeks, Tokyo Gore Police would be Nishumura’s first commercial film.[2][3] The fight choreographer for the film was Taku Sakaguchi who Nishimura has worked with previously on the film Meatball Machine. The comical yet satirical television commercial scenes in the film were filmed by Noboru Iguchi and Yūdai Yamaguchi. Yamaguchi suggested this to bring a different flavor to the film to balance out the rest of the film’s more dark tone. Tokyo Gore Police premiered in several film festivals before being released in Japan. The film had its North American premiere at the New York Asian Film Festival on June 21, 2008.[4] The film premiered in Canada at the Fantasia Festival on July 12, 2008.[5] The film has its Asian premiere at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival in July 2008.[6] A Region 1 DVD of the film was released on January 13, 2009 by Tokyo Shock[7] A Region 2 DVD of the film was released on April 13, 2009 by 4Digital Media.[8] A straight to video prequel has been announced for release in Japan Tokyo Gore Police was received well by American critics on its original release. The film ranking website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 82% “Fresh“ rating and an average rating of 6 out of 10, based upon a sample of eleven reviews.[10] Brian Chen reviewed Police with a score of 3.5/5. He comments, “It’s not a horrible film; it’s not a great film; it’s just everything it tries to be — perverse, grotesque, bizarre — and a little more.“[11] V.A. Musetto of the New York Post gave the film three stars out of four calling the film “bloody good“.[12] Michael Esposito of the Chicago Tribune gave the film three stars noting the film as “sick, twisted and gory, but surprisingly funny in an adolescent boy fantasy way — Beavis and Butt-head would love it.“[13] Russel Edwards of Variety claimed, “Like Tokyo Shock’s recent “Machine Girl,“ for which helmer provided gore effects, [the] pic[ture] will fleetingly exist in midnight sidebars at fests and much longer on fanboy ancillary.“ Edwards also said that Tokyo Gore Police had “occasionally witty moments, but the relentless catalog of mutilations lacks the emotional power of similar fare in pics by, say, fellow Japanese gorehound Shinya Tsukomoto