Review Dan Auty 23 Sep 2013 - 06:38
Japanese splatter comedy shogun Noboru Iguchi returns with killer food horror, Dead Sushi. Here's Dan's review of a proudly idiotic film...
One of the first rules of exploitation filmmaking is that if you find something that works - ie. makes money - then keep doing it. This is certainly the principle that has guided Noboru Iguchi for the past five years. The former porn director achieved international success in 2008 with his splatter comedy Machine Girl and has continued to make films in much the same vein - RoboGeisha, Zombie Ass, Karate-Robo Zaborgar and so on - all ridiculous, loud, gaudy and cheap. They are also made with the overseas market very much in mind, delivering a form of exaggerated entertainment that both satirises and embraces the various stereotypes that exist about Japanese comedy.
Dead Sushi is Iguchi's latest opus, and it very much sticks to the formula.
Japanese splatter comedy shogun Noboru Iguchi returns with killer food horror, Dead Sushi. Here's Dan's review of a proudly idiotic film...
One of the first rules of exploitation filmmaking is that if you find something that works - ie. makes money - then keep doing it. This is certainly the principle that has guided Noboru Iguchi for the past five years. The former porn director achieved international success in 2008 with his splatter comedy Machine Girl and has continued to make films in much the same vein - RoboGeisha, Zombie Ass, Karate-Robo Zaborgar and so on - all ridiculous, loud, gaudy and cheap. They are also made with the overseas market very much in mind, delivering a form of exaggerated entertainment that both satirises and embraces the various stereotypes that exist about Japanese comedy.
Dead Sushi is Iguchi's latest opus, and it very much sticks to the formula.
- 9/20/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
It's been a little too sane around here lately, so it's time to spice things up a bit with a little Dead Sushi. Noboru Iguchi, the near legendry director of classic Japanese splatter-fests RoboGeisha, The Machine Girl and Mutant Girls Squad, went back behind the camera in 2012 to direct the deliriously deranged Dead Sushi, a bizarre new movie inspired by the likes of Piranha 3D and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. Iguchi's last picture was the equally bizarre F is for Fart, a juvenile short film that brought light relief (and light release) to the hit and miss horror anthology, The ABCs of Death. You can check out the official website just here and the glorious trailer at the link below. Starring Rina Takeda( High-Kick Girl!), Shigeru Matsuzaki (Space Adventure Cobra) and Kentaro Shimazu (The Machine Girl, Tokyo Gore Police), Dead Sushi arrives on U.K. DVD September 23rd 2013. Now...
- 9/10/2013
- 24framespersecond.net
It's been a little too sane around here lately, so it's time to spice things up a bit with a little Dead Sushi. Noboru Iguchi, the near legendry director of classic Japanese splatter-fests RoboGeisha, The Machine Girl and Mutant Girls Squad, went back behind the camera in 2012 to direct the deliriously deranged Dead Sushi, a bizarre new movie inspired by the likes of Piranha 3D and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. Iguchi's last picture was the equally bizarre F is for Fart, a juvenile short film that brought light relief (and light release) to the hit and miss horror anthology, The ABCs of Death. You can check out the official website just here and the glorious trailer at the link below. Starring Rina Takeda( High-Kick Girl!), Shigeru Matsuzaki (Space Adventure Cobra) and Kentaro Shimazu (The Machine Girl, Tokyo Gore Police), Dead Sushi arrives on U.K. DVD September 23rd 2013. Now...
- 9/10/2013
- 24framespersecond.net
Dead Sushi
Directed by Noboru Iguchi
Written by Noboru Iguchi and Jun Tsugita
Japan, 2012
Jiro Dreams of Sushi, a sincere documentary about a humble 85-year old sushi maker, was an “effective, ultimately heartfelt, and handled deftly” film about the skill, spirit, and dedication needed to fully grasp the rarely mastered culinary art. Now, imagine if Jiro was having a menacing nightmare, a salacious wet dream, and was euphorically high off his head on smack at the same time, you’d have Noboru Iguchi’s otherwise impossible to explain Dead Sushi.
The story follows Keiko (Rina Takeda), the daughter and apprentice of a master martial artist and sushi maker (Jiji Bû). Despite her father’s attempt to mold her into a master of both trades, her femininity prevents her from becoming either (apparently). Distraught, Keiko runs away from home and takes up a job at an inn owned by a married...
Directed by Noboru Iguchi
Written by Noboru Iguchi and Jun Tsugita
Japan, 2012
Jiro Dreams of Sushi, a sincere documentary about a humble 85-year old sushi maker, was an “effective, ultimately heartfelt, and handled deftly” film about the skill, spirit, and dedication needed to fully grasp the rarely mastered culinary art. Now, imagine if Jiro was having a menacing nightmare, a salacious wet dream, and was euphorically high off his head on smack at the same time, you’d have Noboru Iguchi’s otherwise impossible to explain Dead Sushi.
The story follows Keiko (Rina Takeda), the daughter and apprentice of a master martial artist and sushi maker (Jiji Bû). Despite her father’s attempt to mold her into a master of both trades, her femininity prevents her from becoming either (apparently). Distraught, Keiko runs away from home and takes up a job at an inn owned by a married...
- 10/25/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
We've updated our Film4 Fright Fest line-up story with tons of images. Read on to see what you may have missed and what's brand spanking new! Dig it!
Programme - Screen 1
Thursday Aug 23
Opening Film - The Seasoning House (World Premiere)
Special make-up prosthetics and splatter genius Paul Hyett makes his directorial debut with a harrowing exploration into tense claustrophobia, hard-hitting action and rollercoaster suspense. In a Balkan brothel, where girls kidnapped by soldiers in war-torn zones are prostituted to the military and civilians alike, Angel (Robin Day) is the deaf mute orphan enslaved to care for the inmates. But unbeknownst to her captors, she moves between the walls and crawlspaces of the seasoning house planning her escape. Psychological horror in the nerve-shredding Alfred Hitchcock and Roman Polanski style but with an ultra-modern twist.
89 mins Director: Paul Hyett UK 2012
Rosie Day – Angel
Sean Pertwee – Goran
Kevin Howarth – Viktor
David Lemberg...
Programme - Screen 1
Thursday Aug 23
Opening Film - The Seasoning House (World Premiere)
Special make-up prosthetics and splatter genius Paul Hyett makes his directorial debut with a harrowing exploration into tense claustrophobia, hard-hitting action and rollercoaster suspense. In a Balkan brothel, where girls kidnapped by soldiers in war-torn zones are prostituted to the military and civilians alike, Angel (Robin Day) is the deaf mute orphan enslaved to care for the inmates. But unbeknownst to her captors, she moves between the walls and crawlspaces of the seasoning house planning her escape. Psychological horror in the nerve-shredding Alfred Hitchcock and Roman Polanski style but with an ultra-modern twist.
89 mins Director: Paul Hyett UK 2012
Rosie Day – Angel
Sean Pertwee – Goran
Kevin Howarth – Viktor
David Lemberg...
- 7/3/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
You will have to bear with me on this one as Google Translate hasn’t done a very good job. Japanese gaming site 4Gamer.net has spotted a PlayStation Poster featuring nothing more than a picture of Shigeru Matsuzaki. Don’t worry, I don’t know who that is either, from what I gather he’s an actor of sorts.
The poster was spotted on the Yamanote train line in Japan. No other information is on the poster other than the Ps logo. According to 4Gamer.net, the poster will be running until 27 June with a reveal expected on the 28 June. What the reveal is, is as much of a mystery as trying to understand the Google Translation. You can see a snippet of the poster over at 4Gamer.net...
The poster was spotted on the Yamanote train line in Japan. No other information is on the poster other than the Ps logo. According to 4Gamer.net, the poster will be running until 27 June with a reveal expected on the 28 June. What the reveal is, is as much of a mystery as trying to understand the Google Translation. You can see a snippet of the poster over at 4Gamer.net...
- 6/25/2012
- by Paul Collett
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Leave it to horror cult director Noboru Iguchi (The Machine Girl, Karate-Robo Zaborgar) to conjure up the ridiculous idea of a killer sushi in his appropriately titled film Dead Sushi. As exploitatively promised in the trailer, you can expect to see "Sushi Action!", "Sushi Erotica!" and "Sushi Violence!". Um, yeah, no kidding about the "Sushi Erotica" part and I don't mean Nyotaimori. The cast include martial arts actress Rina Takeda (High Kick Girl) and Shigeru Matsuzaki.You'll find the trailer embedded below....
- 2/22/2012
- Screen Anarchy
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