Gothic & Lolita Psycho

What can I tell about this flick. It's a typical Japanese flick but in the new way. This one do has a story but there isn't that much going on except a few flash backs and a lot of fighting scenes. The credits on the sleeve did mention the new attraction Asami but she's maybe for 2 minutes in this flick. On the other hand they tease you with Rina Akiyama who has won the Best Buttocks Award 2007. Guess she asks to much to show it.

I found it an average flick with the last fight having something special. Suddenly the flick moves into some kind of possessed flick with devils and monsters. Still, it's full of sputtering wounds, Japanese style. No nudity whatsoever. I have seen so many of those kind of flicks the last months with humour and gore that I can't tell which one was different from the other one. Only for the lovers of the new Japanese horror but for me, old school was much better.

Gore 3/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

Gothic And Lolita Psycho is a fun, comic book style action revenge film(sort of a low-rent Kill Bill without Tarantino's genius, of course; but if you feel like killing an hour and a half with a cute actress(Rina Akiyama-voted best butt in Japan a few years ago) this Japanese revenge blood and dismemberment fest is a thrill a minute.

After witnessing her mother's killing, Yuki(Akiyama) spends her time seeking revenge on the bad guys with well choreographed fight scenes and a cool black leather outfit. The only disappointment is no nudity, only much blood spouting from necks, arms & legs and every imaginable body part. Someone should have advised director Go Ohara of Ms. Akiyama,s best asset(pun intended); even so the ride is worth it.

Slight exaggeration there, but I thoroughly enjoyed Yuki's (Rina Akiyama) fight scenes and crazy gadgets her father builds for her (plus her boots are amazing), all in her hell-bent quest to bring down every person in the gang responsible for killing her mother.

Psycho Gothic Lolita is real light on plot (I've already covered it above, and I don't even think they explain why all these characters wanted her mother dead... though she was some sort of a demon?), but real heavy on style and entertainment value. There was a whole wave of these crazy female-led Japanese gore movies, and while there are certainly better ones out there (Noboru Iguchi is a genius), I would still recommend this one.

Only in Japan. The array of wacky characters, clever action, and oddball turns of events are a few of the things that make these movies great. The array of out-there characters she has to terminate, and the gory fights that ensue make for an entertaining evening. I think my favorite character was the psychic professor, whose sole ability is... to blow up young ladies' skirts. Which he also pulls on Lolita herself. Again, only in Japan! Another showdown is her against this whole bizarre "Kamikaze" gang, who choreograph their name(!), and she rescues this poor hapless beating victim... Only it turns out she chased off the gang to get revenge on that guy.

If your into revenge flicks, with a thoroughly badass female protagonist, and don't mind a complete lack of plot or character development, I would consider this movie a blast.

Her beloved mother murdered by a vicious gang of assassins, young Yuki (2007 Best Buttocks Award-winner Akiyama) transforms herself into a Gothic lolita killing machine, wielding a lethal umbrella that can blast, slice, and chop her enemies into oblivion.

I have no idea what the "Best Buttocks Award" is, but Last Chance Lance of Rue Morgue sums up the film as "the perfect combo of glam and gore that'll please perverts and gorehounds alike." That is pretty close to the truth. Not sure about the "glam" (though the fashions are a nice throwback to the best of the 1990s). The gore is there, and with a weapon that puts the Penguin to shame.

And the filming style. Maybe I just have not seen enough Japanese films, but this felt like all the best parts of "Kill Bill" rolled up into a fun little package.

If you are looking for a film that has a lot of plot development, develops characters really well and has a story that makes you think then please skip this film. It does none of these things, what it does do is move by quickly from one fight to the next with a bit of back story here and there to fill in the blanks a bit. Not entirely as I was still clueless about a couple of things at the end of this one. The story is simple, a girl whose mother was killed by a strange quintet of people clad in black robes is out for revenge against said individuals. The thing that sets her apart from the normal revenge seeking girl is her choice of attire and weapon. She dresses in a Gothic Lolita outfit and uses various parasols as her weaponry. You get to see her do her thing right off the bat as she raids a gambling den and proceeds to really decimate all of those within seeking the strange mistress of the place. I was thinking at this point that we would get this scene then have a whole lot of flashbacks detailing her change to this psycho goth, but we only get a small picture and then she is off to a school to take care of her next target. Good action, I enjoyed the fight scenes better in this one than in other films of this type such as Vampire Girl versus Frankenstein Girl, Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police. The gore is about the same as those films, I still give the edge to this one cause it moved by so quickly was not crammed with a bunch of back story on her transformation and it did not have those strange bits of humor such as wrist cutting. While it does poke fun at things, the odd humor does not get placed front and center. My main complaints is that you really do not get enough of an idea why the girl's mother was killed in the first place. Also, while her outfit was cute I was hoping to see more outfits than just the one. Overall, I found it to be a nice bloody and fast moving revenge action/horror film.