 | MOVIE #1,060 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 07.12.23 Every Wednesday, I mine my more than 3K deep Letterboxd watchlist via the shuffle function to find two movies for a rando double feature. I almost always have no recollection as to when, why or how I’ve added films to this unwieldy mishmosh of a list. So, naturally, results vary. Case in point: the English-dubbed version of this zombie comedy from mid 2000s Japan. This flick, based on a manga, is as relentlessly pointless as it is unnecessarily creepy and unfortunately homophobic. And it’s a real shame about the latter because this would have been a much more fun experience without it. I was reminded somewhat of the TRUE RANDOM selection G.O.R.A. I watched a few years back, although not nearly as egregious, re the homophobia. |
When they’re not busy doing weird/horrible sex jokes, the physical goofs — a mix of practical and shitty 00s CGI — are great and almost border on anti-comedy. Take this weird ventriloquist character who ends up becoming a prince in the post-apocalyptic zombie world…
What is that guy’s deal?? I have no idea! The aesthetic is off-the-wall and while it’s certainly ‘not good’ in any conventional way, it works for the zany low-budget tone. I mean, this looks like a lovably bad Wes Anderson rip-off and, honestly, the film needed more of it…
If the whole movie had been stuff like that and scenes like this…
…man, it would have been such a better movie. (Also: What is that fucking music?? lol.) Oh well. I spent way too much time on this review.
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A horror-comedy about two blue-collar factory workers (who happen to be jiu-jitsu experts) dealing with a ravenous, flesh-eating zombie uprising in Tokyo. It was released on December 10, 2005. tadanobu asano,shô aikawa,erika okuda
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