Meatball Machine Kodoku

It is obvious that Japan is a rich society. You see, this movie is the best proof: these film people are really full. Obviously, they eat too much and are too full.

It was a great experience watching this movie. It had the right amount of silliness, cultness and trashyness, but I think it had a bit too much blood. I think it's an aligory for capitalism and the meat industry and it tells you to go vegan.

Having seen the 2005 "Meatball Machine" movie, then I wasn't particularly in a hurry to watch the 2017 "Kodoku: Mîtobôru Mashin" (aka "Kodoku: Meatball Machine") movie.

But still, being a fan of Asian cinema and having a fondness of gore, I opted to sit down and watch this 2017 movie from director Yoshihiro Nishimura nonetheless. But it wasn't with much of any expectations at heart.

Turns out that this movie was every bit as odd, bizarre and well silly as the 2005 "Meatball Machine" movie.

Yeah, a simplistic storyline served with an abundance of blood and gore, and over-the-top creature ideas and pseudo-low budget special effects. Some enjoy this combination tremendously, others don't, and some even just find it to be mediocre.

I wasn't particularly impressed with this movie, and I found the storyline to be way too stupid and simplistic to offer any real enjoyment. And the characters in the movie weren't exactly fleshed out - pardon the pun - in an overly exciting manner, which resulted in the characters being mundane and pointless.

However, I did enjoy the gore, the grotesque ideas for creature designs and the downright campy, craziness that there was to the movie. But it was hardly sufficient to alleviate for the movie's shortcomings in terms of script and characters.

I was, however, pleasantly surprised to see Eihi Shiina make an appearance in this movie. But then again, she is no stranger to this particular weird genre of Japanese gore.

My rating for this movie is a less than mediocre four out of ten stars. The movie wasn't impressive, nor particularly entertaining or enjoyable. Sure, there were some golden moments here and there, but in general, don't get your hopes up for this one.

Lead actor Yoji Tanaka (Yuji Noda) brings it, his character has had it with being scammed by coworkers, family & a possible love interest. Watching Yoji's daily life was engaging, highlighting Japanese culture in over the top but hilarious scenes. Ok, Eihi Shiina has a few cameos in this early on, it was awesome.

When crap hits the fan, things really progress, there is some outer space shenanigans, a forced quarantine zone, gallons of Nishimura-san's iconic blood geysers and boobs! This long awaited sequel won me over, the visual barrage of insanity was a beautiful thing, the droplets of crimson became infinity, I couldn't stop watching. The ending was a low blow but yet a calculated liver shot, who knows? I was happy.

I wish it was less quirky,more "serious"

be on drugs or/and big screen would help.

have also lots of breast showing .

I thought Tokyo Police Gore was better in many aspects.

still, recommended for at least one viewing.

Over the top.