Genkai jinkô keisû (1995) User Reviews

The start...

[BandSAboutMovies · 5/10 · 3 January 2021]

Otherwise known as Anatomia Extinction, this film starts what Tokyo Gore Police would push forward thirteen years later.

A salaryman sees a murder in the subways and is soon pursued by the killer, who wants him to join a group called The Engineers, who have taken it upon themselves to reduce Japan's overpopulation. Despite not wanting any part of joining, the man begins to mutate, much like Tetsuo: The Iron Man, running throughout Japan and fighting his urge to kill.

Yoshihiro Nishimura wrote the script, directed this and also created all of the special effects. He would go on to make Meatball Machine Kodoku, Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl and, of course, Tokyo Gore Police.

This feels like a cyberpunk giallo made on no budget - which is true, as it was all funded by Nishimura - and has an interesting build to the body horror insanity that it leads up to.

This is why it was remade into "Tokyo Gore Police"

[bazmitch23 · 1/10 · 14 August 2015]

I found this online and I decided to watch it because I liked "Tokyo Gore Police". Whereas that movie was insane, extreme and fast paced. This short on the other hand is very, very, very, very slow paced and not a lot happens in it.

The main character is this wimp with badly dyed blonde hair who pukes every now and then (it's never revealed why), he gets attacked by a mutant and is on the urge of transforming into one himself.

The quality is not that great. It was off an old VHS, it was mostly dark, so it was hard to see what was going on and I didn't get a good look at the gore.

However, it had a creative way of using the English subtitles.

There isn't a lot of action in it, unless you count our wimpy hero running a lot.

We have plenty of nauseating shaky cam for his POV.

If you liked Tokyo Gore Police, then this short might disappoint you. If you're expecting to see something as shocking and gory as that, this short is nothing like the feature film it was remade into.

Anatomia Reviewed

[Wetbones · 10/10 · 31 August 2010]

This was fascinating to watch. TOKYO GORE POLICE is far from a direct remake of this film, though there are commonalities. The Engineer is already in this short and he does infect people by inserting a piece of mutant flesh/tumor into the opened-up bodies his victims. There is also already some of the satire regarding the privatization of the Tokyo Police Department. But that's where the similarities end.

The story is about a man who becomes infected by the Engineer and slowly mutates. The chase scenes between the man and the Engineer are very reminiscent of Tsukamoto's TETSUO: THE IRON MAN, in my opinion. Once infected, the Engineer's victims go on relentless murder sprees (there is a hilarious nod to DEATH RACE 2000 in a scene of vehicular homicide) and it is made quite clear that this is seen as the only way to get the exploding population (the world's in general and Japan's in particular) back under control.

In short, ANATOMIA EXTINCTION is sort of set in the same creative universe as TOKYO GORE POLICE but ANATOMIA EXTINCTION and TOKYO GORE POLICE tell totally different stories.

Nishimura showed plenty of talent with this early short film and in retrospect it is both surprising and a bit sad that it took so long for him to be recognized and given more chances to work. ANATOMIA EXTINCTION is definitely something fans should seek out to discover where Nishimura started from.

Small fries can nevertheless carry big flavor

[I_Ailurophile · 8/10 · 12 October 2023]

Never, ever doubt low-budget, independent film production. More can sometimes be achieved with a mere few dollars, a camera, and sheer determination than can be dreamt up with all the support of major studios and enormous casts and crews. The nearest points of comparison one may drum up here are titles of an equally low-grade nature, like Shinya Tsukamoto's 'Tetsuo' or at most Peter Jackson's 'Dead-alive,' but let there be no doubt that 'Anatomia extinction' is a creation all its own. Even with modest resources filmmaker Yoshihiro Nishimura gives us blood, gore, and effects that are gnarly and imaginative, and furthermore illustrates shrewd ingenuity in terms of sets, costume design, and fundamental orchestration of shots and scenes. That's to say nothing of the near-future setting, a fraction of a hair removed from reality; very carefully laid out scene writing and dialogue; and the narrative that weaves together growing madness, murder, and the real-life issues of what constitutes sustainable population - all swirled together in a saga of dark misanthropic fantasizing and bombastic violence. The production values may show their limits, but this 1995 romp is a total blast, a resplendent slice of horror that holds up better than some movies that have benefited from wide-scale release.

Star Kisei Ishizuka unreservedly embraces the wild journey of the unnamed protagonist and he's clearly have a great time, not least with all the tangible, visceral creations that Nishimura gives him throughout. The same is true to only a slightly lesser extent of Tomoko Haseyama, given the task as the "BCG" news anchor of cheerfully reporting and encouraging murder sprees. From particular and very active cinematography to sharp editing, every element here is bent toward accentuating the infectious zeal of the fictional "engineer" movement and the vibrant energy of the carnage. I'm also a big fan of Osamu Mizukami's original music, themes that are at once harsh and dark and wry and cheeky, befitting the overall tone of the feature. The filmmaker had a grand vision that's so colorful and creative that it well exceeds the bounds of the means he had to realize it; we see the artifice, but it doesn't matter. 'Anatomia extinction' is pointedly swift and small, a picture so far removed from the mainstream that it's almost experimental, but it's inescapably fun and gruesome even in its reduced capacity, and made with all the terrific skill and intelligence that Nishimura so obviously cultivated so early in his career from a love of cinema, and the outrageous. By the nature of the violence it won't appeal to all, any more than the genre does generally, yet the end result very ably scratches that itch for horror, and I think anyone who appreciates such fare will feel right at home here. Clocking in at under one hour, 'Anatomia extinction' is a superb piece of indie film-making that shows what can be accomplished outside major channels, and I'm pleased to give it my hearty recommendation!