Summaries

Maimed while seeking revenge, a girl becomes stronger than ever.

Ami is a typical college girl. She's bright, friendly, popular and athletic, with nothing to set her apart from other girls her age other than the fact that she is an orphan, left to care for her younger brother after her father committed suicide after being falsely accused of murder. But while there is tragedy in their past, the siblings' future looks good, except for one thing. Ami's brother has racked up a considerable debt to another boy at school, and that boy just happens to be the heir to a clan of vicious ninja-yakuza. Ami's brother can't pay, violence breaks out and in the course of trying to avenge her brother, Ami is captured by the clan. They torture her and hack her arm right off. Ami escapes, barely alive, and is taken in by the owners of a machine shop who build her a customized, bullet-spewing arm. From that point, the quest for revenge is on in earnest.—Todd Brown for Fantasia Film Festival

Details

Keywords
  • attempted rape
  • female protagonist
  • reference to william tell
  • splatter comedy
  • female murders a male
Genres
  • Action
  • Thriller
  • Comedy
  • Horror
Release date May 22, 2008
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Not Rated
Countries of origin United States Japan
Official sites Official site
Language Japanese
Filming locations Japan
Production companies Nikkatsu Fever Dreams

Box office

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 36m
Color Color
Aspect ratio

Synopsis

『片腕マシンガール』

The life of a young, Japanese schoolgirl is destroyed when her family is killed by a Ninja-Yakuza family. Her hand cut off, she replaces it with various machines-of-death, and seeks revenge.

All Filters