Battle Girl: The Living Dead in Tokyo Bay
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| native_name = Batoru gâru
| director = Kazuo Komizu
| producer = Kazuo Komizu
| writer = Daisuke Serizawa
| starring = Cutie Suzuki
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| released = {{Film date|1991}}
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| country = Japan
| language = Japanese
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{{nihongo|Battle Girl: The Living Dead in Tokyo Bay|バトルガール Tokyo Crisis Wars}} is a 1991 Japanese horror film directed by Kazuo Komizu. It stars Cutie Suzuki as a survivor of a zombie apocalypse in Tokyo.
Plot
After a meteor lands, the population of Tokyo transforms into flesh-eating zombies, and the military quarantines the city. A survivor, Keiko, fights her way through the city and attempts to defeat General Hugioka's evil mercenaries, who indiscriminately kill both humans and zombies.
Cast
- Cutie Suzuki as Keiko
- Kera
- Heiko Hayase
- Kenji Ohtsuki
Release
Synapse Films released Battle Girl on DVD on February 23, 2010.{{cite web|url=https://dreadcentral.com/news/15508/dvd-details-battle-girl-the-living-dead-in-tokyo-bay/|title=DVD Details: Battle Girl: The Living Dead in Tokyo Bay|last=Barton|first=Steve|work=Dread Central|date=2010-02-02|accessdate=2015-02-05}}
Reception
Bill Gibron of DVD Talk rated it 2/5 stars and called it a boring attempt to imitate Troma Entertainment.{{cite web|url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/print.php?ID=41651|title=Battle Girl: Living Dead in Tokyo Bay|last=Gibron|first=Bill|work=DVD Talk|date=2010-02-10|accessdate=2015-02-05|archive-date=2016-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233618/http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/print.php?ID=41651|url-status=dead}} David Johnson of DVD Verdict wrote, "I don't know how you screw up a movie about a zombie-killing girl played by a professional wrestler, but the folks behind Battle Girl perfected the formula. Simply put, this is one of the most boring, nonsensical, bloodsucker excursions I've seen."{{cite web|url=https://dvdverdict.com/reviews/battlegirl.php|title=Battle Girl: The Living Dead In Tokyo Bay|last=Johnson|first=David|work=DVD Verdict|date=2010-02-05|accessdate=2015-02-05|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150628192305/https://dvdverdict.com/reviews/battlegirl.php|archivedate=2015-06-28}} Writing in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, academic Peter Dendle said that the "low-budget effects and goofy costumes are devastating for a science fiction apocalypse feature such as this one".{{cite book|title=The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia|last=Dendle|first=Peter|authorlink=Peter Dendle|publisher=McFarland & Company|year=2001|page=106|isbn=978-0-7864-9288-6}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0225156}}
Category:1990s science fiction horror films
Category:Japanese post-apocalyptic films
Category:Japanese zombie films
Category:1990s Japanese-language films
Category:1991 science fiction films
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