Cast: Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki, Chieko Masaki
Genre: Martial Arts Action, Horror, Zombies, Gore, Sci-Fi, Crime
Rating: *** = "Liked it"
This ridiculously over-the-top Japanese martial arts/samurai blood-fest i
s a mix of Army of Darkness meets Evil Dead meets Resident Evil. It has everything a B-movie blood-and-gore horror fan would want: zombies? check. low-budget gore effects? check. weapons galore? check. blood spraying decapitation and dismemberment? check. hilariously over-the-top acting? check. barely understandable-but-who-cares plot? big check.Tak Sakaguchi plays prisoner KSC 2-303. He escapes from a maximum security prison and meets up with some gangsters in a remote forest. For no real reason, he picks a fight with the gangsters, who have kidnapped some girl, shooting one of them dead, who, within minutes, immediately comes back to life. The rest of the movie has the gangsters, led by a mysterious figure who can not die, hunting down prisoner KSC 2-303 through the Forest of Resurrection, where they find out that anyone they kill comes back as murderous zombies. There's a whole good vs evil, eternal struggle sub-plot to the whole mess, but the weak plot simply serves as an excuse for a massive blood battle between the good guy and bad guys with intermittent zombies and living dead getting into the fray.
The film does have some pretty cool fast-camera martial arts action, which at times was fun to watch, but at 2 hours long the film drags and eventually you find yourself looking for the end. I liked it, but it's not something I would want to see again, hence the 3 stars.
What Parents Need to Know:
Common Sense Media has not rated this movie, but I would rate it as ok for teens above 16 years of age. The movie contains massive amounts of blood and gore but of the B-movie, laughable variety. The gore and effects are so low budget, the action so over-the-top, that it is hard to take this cartoonish movie seriously.
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 60% (Fresh)
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