RoboGeisha

Not a good film, i am not going lie, this Movie is just lacking, Special effects is just weak,acting just awful, Worst than Meatball Machine 2005, so give it a 5/10,

Noboru Iguchi's films have a reputation. You know people are going to die in them, but you are never entirely sure who will be next. Or what the weapon will be. Or from what orifice the weapon protrudes from. Robogeisha carries on this fine tradition, but as a teensy-weensy spoiler, there's more use of CGI blood this time around. I guess it saves on the cleaning bills.

So two sisters, one a geisha, the other the attendant, get invited to perform at a dinner for the big bad guy, and end up being recruited into his army of highly-trained female killers masquerading as more geisha. Oh and there's a few cybernetic upgrades on the way as well.

I can't really say much more to this movie that you can't already tell from the trailer. So I'll just say that I, and practically everyone else in a tiny cinema in the backstreets of Shibuya, was in fits of giggles throughout this movie as we were regularly surprised at what Iguchi's imagination would throw at us. Think of Wacky Racers with cast-iron Shimadas, comedy instead of splatter and only a slight feeling of disappointment when some of the set pieces are cut too short then there's still laughs to be had. Anyone for fried shrimp?

The picture quality is amble, it looks very digital. Shot in a reminiscent way to Crank (2006) and this is effective in hiding a smaller budget and creating excitement. The sound design was a little odd but effective and dynamic which pleased me. This is just taking a simple idea to the maximum insanity. Occasionally the pace slowed down and became a little boring but mostly pressed forward with crazy visuals, mad situations and breast-guns. Just my kind of film. Fast pace and lots of insanity. Also blood everywhere. This is a production of the time, where nonsensical over-the-top insanity was popular.

I genuinely marvel at the unbound creativity of Iguchi's zestfully eccentric, majestically mutable, freakishly fabulous, deliciously demented, skull-splittingly sensational'RoboGeisha'! This gloriously gonzo, gore-giddy chunkblower features some insanely inventive mecha-Geisha perpetrated carnage by VFX genius, Tsuyoshi Kazuno! Some of Kazuno's more outlandishly designed, gloriously gaudy prosthetics are truly wondrous to behold! Bullet-paced,plasma packed, and with nary a static moment, 'RoboGeisha' remains a surrealistic, hyperbolically violent, monstrously fun exercise in unexpurgated, logic-defying escapist lunacy! I've never quite understood why someone would favour a tired old slasher over something infinitely more vivid like, Noboru Iguchi's almost absurdly hyperactive, kaleidoscopically kooky, deliriously dismembering, Cyber-Sexy Sci-fi bloodbath 'RoboGeisha'.

To enjoy this you have to take it for what it is, a movie made for fun with a low budget and no pretensions to be anything other then a campy B movie.

If you enjoyed the 70s-80s Japanese monster and robot movies with the rubber costumes you will enjoy this. I don't think the producers intended this movie to be taken seriously. It had robot geishas with swords from their bums, automatic weapons from their head gears, breast gatling guns and acid squirter's, giant robot castles, gun toting grannies etc.

Story wise its not bad either; mad scientist intending to blow up japan creates killer geishas with the top geishas turn into killer robot geishas. There isn't a lot of gore....unless you count the buildings that gushes blood when the robot smashes them. I think they must have had fun writing this movie.

Good movie. I liked it.