Product Details

• Actors: Cutie Suzuki
• Directors: Kazuo Gaira Komizu
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Synapse Films
• DVD Release Date: February 23, 2010
• Run Time: 74 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002VRNIAE
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #220,477 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Battle Girl: Living Dead In Tokyo Bay (Ws Sub)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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6 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars What the.......?, February 26, 2010

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Matt M. Fichter - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Battle Girl: Living Dead In Tokyo Bay (Ws Sub) (DVD)

I waited months to see this movie after I heard Synapse films was putting it on dvd. I really like most of the movies Synapse puts out like STREET TRASH, THE DEADLY SPAWN, & BRAIN DAMAGE are some of my fav horror flicks. So I bought this movie right away. Battle Girl looked like a cool cheesy horror/sci-fi movie and it's NOT! I didn't even finish watching this movie! Yeah, that's how boring it is. GORE? NO! ACTION? NO! COOL PLOT? NOT REALLY. K-ko ( Cutie Suzuki) a Japanese Pro Wrestler plays Battle Girl and let me say I have seen better acting in porn. WOW. Pro Wrestling in japan must be waaaaay different because this Battle Girl can't even throw a punch! I would hate to see her in the ring. lol.
If your looking for a Gory goodtime from japan get "RIKI-OH THE STORY OF RICKY" Synapse films should be ashamed of putting this crap on their lable. Save an hour of your life and just watch Godzilla.

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2.0 out of 5 stars "Full House" had better fight scenes., February 14, 2011

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T. Hunt "wasabi crush" (Billings, MT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Battle Girl: Living Dead In Tokyo Bay (Ws Sub) (DVD)

Battle Girl: The Living Dead in Tokyo Bay, (Batoru garu), is a 1991 film directed by Kazuo Gaira Komizu. If I had to pick one genre to describe it, I suppose I'd have to lean more towards horror, but this really does have a science fiction theme to it that may garner the movie a wider fan base. Either way, if there's any following at all, it's of the cult crowd.

In a nutshell, a meteor crashes to earth, namely Tokyo bay, which creates a sort of alien fog that resurrects the living. In the fallout, the area is taken over by zombies, villainous military personnel, and apocalypse-punks. Enter K-ko, (played by Japanese wrestler, Cutie Suzuki), who dons one of the more tackier suits in cinematic history to fight the legions of listed baddies.

The movie is just bad for a multitude of reasons. I won't bore you with the entire laundry list of failures, here, but I'll list a few because it's entirely possible they might actually be appealing to someone considering investing in the DVD.

The soundtrack is entirely synth and poorly orchestrated. Off and on, I actually caught brief bits and pieces that sounded an awful lot like snippets from Janet Jackson's, "Rhythm Nation 1814" album. Specifically, "Escapade". You may have seen this movie and find my observation completely unfounded, which is fine, but I'm sticking with my guns, here. Janet's album came out two years before this movie, so the timing is just right considering the travel time for pop music in that era. Also, to further support my theory, the video for Jackson's title song, "Rhythm Nation" holds a striking similarity to the foggy, industrial-style setting housed in Battle Girl. (Judge me if you'd like, but the fact remains that by being attracted to this movie in the first place, I proved myself a little wobbly. I can't be blamed.)

These would be the most flaccid fight sequences I have ever seen. The DVD case boasts that the protagonist is played by a professional wrestler, but she must have caught whatever scoliosis bug was making its rounds through the director's crew during the filming. Every scene consisted of her squaring up, taking a swing, getting dumped on the ground, then jumping back up vaguely surprised and squaring up again. Randomly throughout the film, she would have to disarm someone with the same sort of softness previously laid claim to by boiled carrots, and somehow succeed. It was devastatingly boring to watch. So much so that I sort of nodded off a little about mid-film and then jerked awake because my foot had slipped off my coffee table.

K-ko's Battle Suit was ridiculous. Nothing on board looked remotely helpful aside from adding some extra padding, and most of that went over her breasts. Round breast cones that spent the duration of this movie crooked. One side would be fine, the other would be drooping south a good 4-6 inches. It reminded me of Thom Yorke's eyes. (Oh, and I'd like to add that she's apparently of some military background, hence the suit, but she clearly had zero training with any military personnel prior to this production. In fact, I think it's safe to say that she's never even seen anyone in the military do anything remotely military-like at any point in time ever.)

I'm rambling. So...

I highly advise not watching this movie unless you're surrounded by a group of friends famous for their MST3K-like abilities. The only treasure found in, "Battle Girl: The Living Dead in Tokyo Bay", as far as I'm concerned, is in the people that will make fun of it.

Rent this puppy.

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