10 Fantastic Asian Horror Films You Must See Before You Die

5. Tokyo Gore Police (2008)

tokyo gore police In a futuristic Japan, a man known as 'Key Man' has spread a terrible virus that makes humans into grotesque beings called Engineers who spout weapons from any injury. A special task force has been set up to deal with them. They use violence, cruelty and sadism and executions to maintain order. Helping them is Ruka, an expert dispatcher of Engineers. She is looking for the man who killed her father who was a policeman. Ruka is told to hunt down Key Man but he infects her. A nationwide crackdown on Engineers is ordered after a policeman turned Engineer wastes an entire precinct in Tokyo. Ruka meets up with Key Man again and details of their shared past come out in the wash. Key Man's father was a police sniper who resigned from the force after a sniping gone wrong. To ward off destitution, he took a paid job to assassinate Ruka's father who was campaigning for the privatisation of the force. He shot her father and was then shot and killed himself by the mastermind of the operation - the chief of police. Intent on avenging his father's death, Key Man injected himself with the blood of several killers to mutate into what he is now. So Key Man and Ruka want revenge on the same man. Going back outside, Ruka sees a friend of hers drawn and quartered. Her left arm mutates into a monstrosity and she beheads the officers behind it. Ruka goes on a violent rampage until she meets the chief of police whom she takes great pleasure in decapitating. Tokyo Gore Police is so over the top in its blood shedding and violence that it is impossible not to laugh at the film. The film makers seem to have some sort of bet going that any gory movie that has gone before, they can outdo - with a cavalcade of flying decapitated heads and dismembered limbs. And as if that isn't bad enough, the site of the lost appendages sprout grotesque weapons for even more carnage! The film is smart and inventive and throws about 100,000 gallons of red stuff at the screen. For J-Horror fans and gorehounds, how can you resist this depraved little number?
 
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My first film watched was Carrie aged 2 on my dad's knee. Educated at The University of St Andrews and Trinity College Dublin. Fan of Arthouse, Exploitation, Horror, Euro Trash, Giallo, New French Extremism. Weaned at the bosom of a Russ Meyer starlet. The bleaker, artier or sleazier the better!