It shouldn't be a surprise to you that this movie is bizarre, gory and perverse and for adults and genre-fans only. The title is obvious enough and anybody who disliked this movie can't tell me that he didn't know what to expect from this weird b-movie.''Tokyo Gore Police'' takes places in a dystopian future where the Tokyo Police Force has been privatized and recalls elements of a radical paramilitary organization. The organization fights so-called ''Engineers'' which are monstrous humans that sprout bizarre weapons from an injury. A superb Eihi Shiina, most known for her stunning debut in Takashi Miike's ''Audition'', incarnates a lonesome police officer with Borderline personality disorder who fights these creatures and tries to identify the crazy scientist that first created the ''Engineers''.While the story seems to be simplistic at first sight, it's not as shallow as it seems. Over the course of the movie, we get to know the background story of the police officer who had a mentally deranged mother and whose father was a proud police officer who was killed by a hit-man. The background story of the crazy scientist as well as the reasons for the existence of the radical paramilitary organization are also explained step by step and lead to a brutal showdown.This movie is filled with hilarious ideas and memorable scenes. Among the transformed monsters, we can see female sex slaves whose arms and legs have been replaced by swords or machine guns for example. The most deranging scene is probably the part that takes place in a decadent strip club where a police officer gets tortured by a prostitute whose lower body parts change into the upper body part of an alligator.We also get to see some social criticism in this movie. The main plot is sometimes interrupted with short television advertisements that promote self-harm and similar decadent behaviours in a humorous way. These clips criticize dangerous and weird trends in our society.You can enjoy this movie as the abnormally nasty horror flick that it is or as some bitter social criticism in a most dystopian world. It's your choice whether you simply want to be emotionally entertained or intellectually instructed by this film while a mixture of both is probably the most recommended manner to approach this unusual production. No matter what your choice is, please be aware that the content of this film is highly disturbing for those who aren't familiar with the gore genre or experimental Japanese cinema.

TOKYO GORE POLICE is one of the earliest and most famous of the Japanese wave of independent, low budget, cheap, gore/bad taste movies of which other titles include MEATBALL MACHINE and MACHINE GIRL. Having just watched it, I thought it was mildly enjoyable but somehow lacking at the same time. The plotting is simplistic stuff indeed and just a bare skeleton on which to hang a handful of action sequences, none of which are particularly amazing.I'd seen other films in the same genre first, such as VAMPIRE GIRL VS. FRANKENSTEIN GIRL and HARD REVENGE MILLY, and thought that they were more entertaining. Still, TOKYO GORE POLICE has its moments with some truly outlandish special effects work typically involving body modification and extreme blood sprays. The main character is an offbeat policewoman played by AUDITION's Eihi Shiina who goes around killing 'engineers', who are genetically modified killers.There are flying samurai killers, chainsaw deaths, a half woman/half crocodile, plus lots of sniggering, bad taste shots. The acting is over the top but not as frenzied as the directorial style. I can't help but think that the people who make this stuff try a little too hard with their limited resources; Ryuhei Kitamura handled low budget genre fare much better with the likes of VERSUS, which concentrated on style over cheesy effects. Still, it does remain enjoyable - albeit just about.

I really wanted to LOVE 'Tokyo Gore Police.' I'm a big fan of loud, dumb, deliberately over-the-top movies, so I had high hopes for this one. It fulfilled my expectations, but only half as much as I thought it would.Yes, it's a Japanese movie (so anyone who can't watch a film with subtitles might as well move on right now) and it's set in a futuristic Tokyo where the police have been privatised and catching criminals is big business. This would be awkward enough, if it wasn't for the presence of the mysterious (and also insane) 'engineer's (no, not the same ones from Prometheus, thankfully) who can turn severed limbs into weapons – a feat that has to be seen to be believed. Unfortunately, the extent of these engineers' criminal tendencies doesn't just stop with overcharging you to repair your Honda at the garage. They seem to delight in mass murder and general chaos. Enter 'Ruka' – our surly heroine who specialises in slicing these freakish nut-jobs to pieces before they can grow a rocket launcher where their ankle used to be (seriously, that's the sort of thing they do). So, she sets off to hunt every last one of them down (and possibly learn how they came to be if she has the time).It has all the makings of a decent enough B-movie, but it has the word 'gore' in its title. Therefore, it has to live up to its name. And it does. If you like gore then you will leave this film fulfilled. It has some of the most hideously memorable monstrosities ever to grace the silver screen. I thought many reminded me of some sort of early David Cronenberg film where 'body horror' is used. Until you've seen a woman turn a certain part of her anatomy into a giant crocodile and eaten a man alive then you haven't lived.So it has the gore. It also has the 'look.' And this is where I call it *almost* an 'art house' film. The director seems to have taken great care to frame and colour his shot. There's a lot of colour. It's almost like a living comic book with its brightly-coloured sets. Plus many of the shots are long and deliberately drawn out, giving a sense of offering the viewer more than just a mere slash-up-the-monsters film.So, it gets its plus points for being gory and nice to look at – so far so good. The only thing I felt it lacked was a coherent story. Yes, there is a story in there somewhere, but it seems to lose its way at times. It's nearly two hours long and I felt that it could have lost about twenty minutes in the first half to concentrate on getting from A to B. The second half seems to be a little more focused and therefore makes more sense. However, in the first act I found myself staring at the screen blankly, wondering what was going on (and just waiting for the next gore moment to arrive).Overall, I enjoyed the film. I'm glad I watched it and it has definitely left images in my mind that will never go away (no matter how hard I try to make them!). I just wanted it to have a tighter story, as (when nothing hideous was happening in the first half) I found it a little boring and hard to watch. One of those rare films where it needs a director's cut to actually shorten the film!http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/

I was intrigued by the poster for this film, with a sexy Japanese girl in what looks like a Catholic school uniform, which gave me flashbacks to my early years at St. Ann's. A scientist creates a virus which causes weapons to sprout from wounds. These mutants are engineers. The Tokyo police force is privatized to battle the enemy by using torture and street assassinations.Ruka is the star here, as she kills engineers with great skill. She also is hunting down the man who murdered her father. She tracks down Key Man, a villain being sought by the police. Key Man tells her of the deep corruption of the cops, and she joins him to fight them. The violence is brutal, with severed limbs and heads being decapitated, much in the style of Kill Bill. Eihi Shiina is Ruka, and she is sexy and entertaining as the female assassin. Tokyo Gore Police does not have Tarantino's wit, but it is still fun to watch.