10 Outrageous Japanese Films Hollywood Wouldn't Dare Remake

10. Junk

Reservoir Dogs meets From Dusk Till Dawn in this outrageous (and outrageously bloody) heist/zombie film, surely the most fun you’ll ever have reading subtitles.

The gory mayhem kicks off when a group of jewel thieves rendezvous with their colleagues at what they think is an abandoned army base. It isn’t – it’s home to a mad doctor’s experiments with DNX, a drug that reanimates the dead. As the gangsters start falling victim to zombies the doctor leads an attack on the base, little realizing that the zombie horde is being commanded by his late fiancée, the prototype recipient of DNX.

To give you some idea of what’s in store, the Japanese pressbook promised “Torn up flesh, gouged entrails and splashing blood,” giving a fair idea of director Atsushi Moroga’s intent. Like Robert Rodriguez, he can stage a gun battle and loves comic book violence, but the ‘acting’ of the English-speaking players, whose scenes appear to have been tacked-on to expand the running time, are mostly good for laughs. If you can put that aside, then Junk is everything a zombies versus gangsters movie ought to be – loads of fun.