Notizie

The official website for Kenichi Fujiwara’s Graffreeter Toki has been updated with an embed of its new 2+ minute trailer.

The movie is an adaptation of a comedic stage play performed by the theater troupe Feeld Stage in March 2011 which was heavily inspired by Keisuke Itagaki’s popular manga series “Baki the Grappler”.

The story is set in a downtown shopping district where there happen to be many fans of the Baki the Grappler manga. Chief among them is a woman named Shizue (Yuki Saito), an obsessive Baki fan who runs her missing husband’s chiropractic clinic.

Their neighborhood is at risk of a major overhaul from a company called “Happy Lucky Group”, or Happy-Lucky for short. Happy-Lucky wants to level the district and replace it with a giant onsen/amusement park combo. Shizue is a fierce opponent of the renovations, and hires a part-time qigong therapist named Ando (Kanji Tsuda...

As someone who tends to favor the low-budget, the twisted, and the purposely bizarre, it’s really no surprise that this endless wave of violent, over-the-top action currently streaming out of Japan amuses me to no end. It honestly doesn’t matter how trashy, sleazy, or generally unpleasant the picture may be — all I need is an abundance of intentionally strange set pieces punctuated with the sort of copious bloodletting that would greatly disturb the well-adjusted, socially productive members of society. Story, characterization, and a multi-tiered plot are nice things to have, but they aren’t necessarily required. I’m guess I’m just shallow like that. An organic sense of the absurd is essential to enjoying something as slipshod and low-budget as Kenichi Fujiwara’s goofy 2008 undead actioner “Zombie Hunter Rika” (aka “High School Girl Rika: Zombie Hunter”), a film that pulls absolutely no punches when it comes to wanton violence and stupidity.