Japan, 2008, 108 minutes, Narrative
Japanese with English subtitles
Cast: Eiha Shiina, Itsuji Itao, Yukihide Benny and Tak Sakaguchi
“The blood doesn’t just gush; it sprays like a firehose from severed limbs and heads and assorted other
bodily injuries. By the film’s end, one of the characters is actually jet-propelling himself through the
air with the plasma blasting out of the stumps where his legs used to be.” - Fangoria
Brace yourself for a jaw-dropping cinematic experience!
Tokyo is burning! Set in a future-world where the police have been privatized and bitter self-mutilation
is so casual that advertising is often specially geared to the "cutter" demographic, this is the story of
samurai-sword-wielding Ruka and her mission to avenge her father's assassination. The Tokyo Police
Corporation is locked in a bloody war with the “Engineers.” These unstoppable, genetically modified
super-criminals can bio-fuse their open wounds with weapons, turning self-mutilation into a deadly combat
form.
Ruka (Eihi Shiina from Takashi Miike’s Audition), the daughter of a murdered police officer, is now the
corporation’s top Engineer Hunter. With cold-blooded efficiency she infiltrates the mutant Engineers’
organization and finally tracks down their secret headquarters, a truly bizarre fetish club. Nothing
steers Ruka from her solemnly sworn duty- not even the shocking discovery of the truth behind her father's
death!