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In an abandoned factory on the Japanese island of Okinawa, the U.S. army secretly developed a serum called "DNX" that is able to bring the dead back to life. Something went wrong and all scientists were killed. Now meet Saki and her gang. They just robbed a jeweller and are on their way to meet some Yakuza for a big deal. Guessed their meeting point? It doesn't take long time and an army of bloodthirsty zombies is after them. Soon everybody is running and fighting for his life...

20 years after the heydays of ultra-gory Italian zombie movies, the Japanese start to produce somehow very similar movies like this one. Heavily influenced by such films as George A. Romero's zombie trilogy, Italian and Spanish shockers from the late 70's and early 80's and the 1992 Japanese film "Living Dead in Tokyo Bay", this is a fun splatter film, and as such it delivers what fans would expect. The gory special effects are done very well most of the time - if you can't stand dismemberment, heads blown into pieces and gut-munching zombies, stay far away! On the other side, splatter movie fans will have plenty of fun with this movie.

Director Atsushi Muroga does it again... after having taken parts from "Reservoir Dogs", "Natural Born Killers", "The Getaway" and numerous other action/crime films to mix it all together for his gore loaded actioner "Score" (1995) about jewelry robbers versus criminal couple versus double crossing Yakuzas, he mixes Lucio Fulci's "Zombi 2" (aka "Zombie Flesh Eaters" etc.) with George Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" and "Day of the Dead" and "Re-Animator", plus "Return of the Living Dead" 1 and 3, and, concerning the basic plot, his own "Score" (which means the film has also elements of the above mentioned American non-Zombie productions) to create a modern Zombie movie that looks like one that was made in the early 1980s: almost nostalgic.

That doesn't mean that the movie is totally unoriginal. It's the first of a recent "Zombie wave" from Japan, followed by the nonsensical "punk rock horror" movie "Wild Zero" and the best of the bunch, the stylishly but a bit too long "Versus". "Junk" delivers all a Zombie fan needs, although it's been all there before, and - at least concerning the ideas lifted from Fulci and Romero - it has been there better. But all the blood and guts, plus the relentless action Asian cinema is known for, make this film entertaining 83 minutes, best consumed with fellow Zombie freaks, enough beer (or else) and snacks.

Obviously Atsushi Muroga doesn't intend to reinvent well known genres or plots. But he wants to give the audience a good time with popcorn action and horror - and gore. And this he does very well. Rating: 6 out of 10.

I like zombie movies, and I like Japanese movies, but this one was just too amateurish. The acting went from bad to worse, at times getting so bad you couldn't concentrate on the movie - you had to stop and marvel at a line delivered particularly badly, wondering why it wasn't edited out and if that actor was possibly a funding source for the movie. To be fair, the Japanese actors, in general, did a much better job than their American counterparts.

For a better example of the Japanese zombie movie, see Bio Zombie. That at least has a decent level of humor. Junk had little to no humor, indicating that they took the movie a little too seriously. It wasn't so bad that I couldn't finish watching, but it was so bad I knew I'd never watch it again.

A group of jewel thieves is to meet some Yakuza members at an abandoned facility to hock the hot ice...little did anyone seem to know that this "facility" was a former military installation that was doing work on the dead, namely - bringing them back to life. Guess it worked, 'cuz now the place is crawling with the undead. The jewelry deal goes bad, and now we have some people to supply lunch for the zombies...

JUNK is a pretty cool zombie film. Nothing really ground-breaking or spectacular, and seems to be much more related to the American, Romero-type zombie films than the typically whacked-out Asian stuff. The story is pretty simple, there's plenty of gore to go around, and the film is never really self-indulgent or too serious. A fun way to spend a couple of hours, but not a "great" film either. I personally tend to like JUNK less than most others that I talk to....still would recommend a look- 7.5/10

This movie begins with the United States Army conducting an experiment consisting of bringing a beautiful Japanese woman named "Kyoko" (Miwa) back to life. What the scientists don't count upon is the fact that they have created a zombie who cannot be controlled. Not long afterward some jewel thieves agree to meet some members of the Yakuza to sell their goods at the same abandoned warehouse where this experiment was conducted. The negotiations break down and both factions end up battling each other for the jewels which results in a chemical spill that creates even more zombies. Complete chaos soon follows. Anyway, while this is clearly a low-budget film I thought the director (Atsushi Muroga) did a fairly competent job up until about the last 20 minutes or so. Things got a bit silly after that. In any case, the premise was pretty good and I liked the presence of both Kaori Shimamura (as "Saki") along with the aforementioned Miwa. But because of the breakdown at the end I have to rate it as slightly below average.

I stumbled upon this movie and got all excited because I love Asian horror AND zombie movies and this was right up my alley.

Even though the beginning felt like a straight up ripoff of Re-animator, I didn't mind that much because I honestly wouldn't mind seeing a Japanese version of that movie so why not.

Then the movie switches gears to military talking heads with really bad monotone dubbing and the typical "something went wrong" scenario that has been in horror movies since the 50s.

Then it switches gears again to some interesting characters who end up being jewel thieves. I got really excited when a guy with spikey blond hair pulled out a samurai sword but all he did with it was smash a case with the handle. He gets stabbed in the foot with a pen, drops the sword, and we never see it again. I guess the pen really is mightier than the sword... heh heh. (Sorry.) But damn, I wanted to see that sword again.

Then they get into their getaway car and the driver seems less interested in the road than the guy with the stabbed foot and they almost crash several times because of it. Again, stuff we've all seen before but done way better.

And that, I think, is the problem with this movie - there's just nothing new here and in most cases their rehash of old material was just not as good as what most of us have seen before.

There's lots of action, gore, blood, zombies, Yakuza, an attractive cast, a decent premise (even if it isn't exactly original), and even some nudity, but I found myself bored and it felt really weird because they were ticking all these boxes I love in movies like this.

It didn't help that there was absolutely no chemistry between the blond spikey hair guy and the getaway driver when there's supposed to be. And I honestly didn't care about either of them. The more I watched them, the more I kind of wanted them to die, honestly.

I know this wasn't some huge budget production, but it just didn't do enough for me to rate it any higher than 4/10. Your results may vary.

After a robbery,a group of thieves meets up with the Yakuza at an old abandoned factory in order to exchange money and jewels.However unknown to them the factory was an old military facility which was working on reanimating the dead.And they succeeded,meaning the factory is loaded with bloodthirsty zombies."Junk" is slowly getting a minor cult following,because it has creepy,old-style zombies that are a combination of Romero/Fulci/O'Bannon's zombies.The gore is plentiful and the feel of the film is very reminiscent of the Italian gut-munchers of the late 1970/early 1980 period.The film doesn't take itself too seriously and is pretty silly at times.There is plenty of gory mayhem on display-lots of headshots,zombies biting parts of their victims and eating intestines etc."Junk" is extremely entertaining,so fans of Japanese horror or zombie cinema won't be disappointed.

I like Junk: sure, it's extremely derivative stuff (female super-zombie aside, of course), but it has absolutely no pretensions, delivering fans of your more traditional shuffling undead all the gut-munching, brain-blasting action that they could ask for.

The plot sees a gang of amateur jewel thieves (including sexy getaway driver Saki) bite off more than they can chew when they arrange their meeting with a Yakuza fence and his men at an abandoned factory: the derelict building is, in fact, a top secret army base where experiments in raising the dead have resulted in flesh-eating zombies, and it's not long before the criminals are fighting for their lives against hordes of mouldy walking cadavers.

This weak set up is simply an excuse for a series of violent gun-fights and bloody encounters with manky zombies, so it is easy to forgive the silly script, many glaring plot-holes and terrible acting (particularly from a handful of westerners, playing US Army dudes). Director Atsushi Muroga (who also directed jewellery-heist-gone-wrong action flick Score) wisely keeps the action flowing thick and fast, and ensures that gore-hounds are kept happy with plenty of splattery effects.

Eventually, things get very daft indeed, with the aforementioned super-zombie stealing the show in the film's finale: wearing thigh high kinky boots, this surprisingly sexy corpse runs rings around the surviving gang members, before being shot in the head. Unfortunately, this only makes matters worse: the she-zombie becomes even stronger (and, inexplicably, albino!), fighting on after having been completely cut in half!!!

Cool, crazy, and covered in blood, this undemanding undead actioner is recommended to those who want to switch off their brain and simply enjoy some gory mayhem.

Throughout the late 18th century a grand Japanese-fever swept the regrettably not vaccinated western nations like a swarm of African killer bees from Irvin Allen's archetypal classic of the same name, leading, among other things, to myriad French impressionist art works and Gilbert and Sullivan's `The Mikado', which is for all intents and purposes about as Japanese as Shepard's pie - and for that we shall be forever be indebted to Mr. Gilbert's and Mr. Sullivan. Now, with many of the Japanese's recent imports, the unabashed scrounging of the other culture's art technique has come full circle. So enthralled are the pitiable, deluded fools by our lowest common denominator pop culture orts that they expend large amounts of their time and energy on plagarizing what is already watered down Tarantino, Romero, and Zimmer, by which I mean that this movie has in fact more in common with Paul Anderson's awful adaptation of the `Resident Evil' games, in themselves a tribute to Romero's classic `Living Dead' trilogy, Roger Avary's almost equally awful `Killing Zoe', needless to say a very second-rate imitation of `Reservoir Dogs', and the musical excretion of Klaus `The Uncomposer' Badelt, who has become rich and famous by simply imitating his only slightly superior and in general grossly overrated mentor Hans Zimmer.

The fundamentals that make up this movie's meager `plot' are recognizably familiar: The Avarian bank heist, the bickering gangsters, the Yakuza double-cross, the James Whalian ersatz-Frankenstein who crosses a line man was not meant to cross in order to reanimate his beloved dead wife, the Bay-esque macho military men with their Sam Elliot moustaches and Manuel Noriega-like skin, as well as the hilarity and wackiness that ensues when these forces clash. However, the imitation is not of a very high caliber, lacking the flaire and technical skill of a Tod Browning, a Romero or even, and this is particularly embarrassing, a Michael Bay or Roger Avary (I suggest the people responsible, especially the director, graciously commit harikari immediatly). Even without understanding a word of Japanese, the overacting and awkward, at times even idiotic, scripting is painfully obvious, as is the film's complete lack of original or memorable visuals. The pseudo-Badelt score is possibly the film's worst single aspect, full of hyperkinetic, depth-free, poorly synth-orchestrated, ultra-simplistic power-anthems of such a monumentally turbid, desiccated lifelessness that even if it fell off a junk, in this case not referring to the movie but to a Chinese flatbottom ship with a high poop and battened sails, it wouldn't be capable of rehydration.

Still, one does have to give credit to any movie that has the guts to call itself `Junk'.

this movie was awful and boring, and this is said from a person who loves to watch many what other people would call 'boring' sundance films. first of all, i was expecting way more gore. there was barely any. it didn't start out to bad at the beginning since there were yakuzas acting sort of funny but then it went downhill from when the main characters went into the factory.

this movie was dull. i hate to rate a movie so low, 4/10 but i just had to. out of all the asian horror cinema i have seen, this is by far the worst.

"Junk" is as it's own name suggests, well junk really. A low budget Japanese zombie film that can neither impress with great visual effects nor strong acting or plot. But what does do and does well in my opinion, is to recreate the feeling and entertainment value of eighties Italian zombie flicks. In other words "Junk" is trashy fun.

After successfully pulling of a jewelry heist the group of four robbers head of towards an abandoned warehouse where the supposed buyer would be. Unknowingly to both parties, that same place was the dumping ground for a failed American military experiment on bringing the dead back to life. Needless to say what happens when our heroes arrive. It's a simple well known plot that doesn't demand any form of thinking. You just sit-down with a beer-pack and some popcorn in hand and enjoy the on screen carnage. The unpretentious design is what holds "Junk's" charm and of course the violence does also help in that matter.

The acting again in the spirit of Italian horror leaves something to be desired. The Japanese actors did relatively well for this sort of film. Which basically means they didn't get on my nerves with absurd performances or just monotonic line reading. American actors on the other hand were awful, unbearable. Director Atsushi Muroga should have written their characters off plot and sticked with only Japanese actors. The reason for the bad performance does not fully fall on the actors's hands. In this case it's easy to see that the language barrier and Muroga's inability to properly direct the English speaking cast due to his own apparent lack of knowledge in that language are the true problems.

The action is fairly good. Practically most of the movie's running time is filled with shootouts, zombie attacks or both combined. Muroga keeps a fast pace and with a short running time "Junk" doesn't get boring. As any other zombie movie so is this one packed with gore. Necks bitten, legs and arms cut off, people being eaten, heads smashed it's got the needed ingredients to deliver a fun experience.

Atsushi Muroga' "Junk" makes for a delightful yet forgettable zombie film. Mainstream audience should definitely pass the chance on seeing it. But highly recommendable to fans of the trashy low-budget horror genre.

this in no way is a bad movie, yet all through it my mind kept wondering to earlier much better Zombie fare. The gore effects are pretty good and there is a high splatter quotient, but the acting is less than top notch, which would be fine if I actually cared which criminal lived or died. Speaking of the acting, when that Chinese scientist talks in undecipherable English, it took me out of the movie that much more. Despite all that it's a good film, provided you watch it at a party under the influence of alcohol.

This is not one of those eerie Japanese thrillers like "Ringu" but rather a typical zombie flick. If you enjoy films like "Dawn of the Dead" and more specifically "From Dusk Till Dawn" you will undoubtedly enjoy this.

Their is definite Tarantino feel to this production about a heist that goes wrong and the meeting up in an abandoned warehouse. The twist is that the warehouse is full of zombies, inactive at first but - well you can guess the rest. Film buffs will no doubt enjoy the irony of an Asian film taking inspiration from "Reservoir Dogs" which itself was inspired by earlier Asian film.

Miwa Yanagizawa makes a very gory but sexy Zombie Queen and we don't see enough of her - no I'll rephrase that - we don't see her often enough in the film. Otherwise this is an enjoyable but not terribly original addition to the zombie genre.

Mooshing together the "Reservoir Dogs" plot with a dose of "Re-Animator" and "Dawn of the Dead", this concerns a bunch of diamond thieves who meet up with mobsters at an abandoned military base, only to be ambushed by the living dead. Gleefully fast-paced, with zombies resembling the ones featured in "City of the Walking Dead"...i.e. the zombies look like they have mud all over their faces. Good gory fun, without the hassle of a plot. Too bad there ain't more of this kind of stuff these days. Most of the zombie stuff of late (House of the Dead, Resident Evil) treat zombies as just another shoot-'em-up element. Here they are the thrust of the story...what story there is.

Junk (2000) was one of the new wave zombie films to come from Japan during the turn of the century. Like the others it was made on the cheap but highly entertaining. This film's about an experiment gone awry (can't those scientists get anything right?). The gore level is very high and it features two very unlikely heroes and some hot Japanese ladies. Why can't they make zombie films like this in the United States instead of rubbish like Resident Evil (which parts of this movie were taken from). Junk (like Score) was partially shot in English. I love this movie and I know you will to.

Highly recommended

George A. Romero would be pleased.

Did I mention there were two hot Japanese ladies in the picture?

I have seen my share of zombie movies and I can honestly say that this is one of them. I bought it so long ago because I had seen another Japanese film called, Versus that had lots of fighting and action and some zombies and I had asked if there were any more films like it in a post and this is one of the films mentioned. Well, this one was a better zombie film than that one, but it was not as fun. The action was not as good and despite a rather short running time, it tends to lag in places. Not that it was all bad, it still has its moments and it does feature one thing that makes it stand out as far as zombie films are concerned and that is a very attractive and cute zombie girl. Other than the cute one though, they are the typical slow moving horde of the living dead terrorizing like one warehouse. Yes that is right, all the action as far as the zombies are concerned takes place in one warehouse and so the scope of the film is rather small as they do not even have that many people to kill and what they do have gets killed quickly and you are just left with these two running around with the guy being particularly annoying.

The story has an experiment done by an American to resurrect the dead. He is successful, but as is typical with a zombie film, the dead comes back a little bite happy. This man is not the originator of the formula though, but rather a Japanese man who has left said project. He is summoned by the U.S. military and then we are introduced to four people performing a jewel heist. They get through it, though one guy gets stabbed and plan on selling their jewels to the Yakuza. Though their bag of jewels does not look particularly large to me. Well they pick a place to meet up and it is in the warehouse where the zombie formula is and as is typical a zombie horde is unleashed. Now the thieves must fight their way out of the warehouse, the guy who created the formula must try to blow up the facility and the cute lead zombie will try to avert the explosion!

As I said, just not as good a film as Versus as it really is just a typical zombie film that has rather slow pacing. The tag line is "Everybody Fights!", but really there is not a lot of cool action going on in this one. Just a lot of running around and screaming and things that make one scratch their head in wonder. Like why did they feel the need to have American speaking actors in this and why in the world did they have the one scientist guy trying to speak in English? Seriously, any scene where he is talking in English is almost impossible to understand. Then he is given a machine gun with a grenade launcher as he plans on going to the warehouse and detonating the bomb...I'm rather sure a scientist would not be given that particular weapon and I am pretty sure he would not be all that capable of handling it. Still, there is some good gore in this one and it is short so while not super great or anything, it is a rather fun watch...just not a film that holds up under repeat viewings I'm afraid.

Not the best zombie movie ever, but certainly not the worst either. Fun splatter effects, but boy, weren't those the slowest moving zombies you've seen ever! My grandpa even moves faster than that, and he's dead for over 15 years... But that evil Japanese zombie-chick was so cool! Naturally, this film shouldn't be taken too seriously, as the filmmakers never intended it that way either.

You'll be able to spot several winks/homages to other films. The zombies are styled after the blue-ish ones from Romero's DAWN OF THE DEAD. We get to see the syringe filled with green fluid from RE-ANIMATOR. And since we're dealing with thieves and yakuza here, all running around in an abandoned factory, you might as well add Tarantino's RESERVOIR DOGS to the list.

JUNK (2000) would make up for a fine and fun Japanese zombie double feature night together with STACY (2001).