10 Outrageous Japanese Films Hollywood Wouldn't Dare Remake
6. The Machine Girl
A revenge movie with a difference, The Machine Girl is an impassioned plea for restraint that argues violence never solves anything and that diplomacy will always save the day.
Nah, just kidding – it’s a movie about a shining innocent who avenges her brothers murder by killing those responsible, but when she has her arm cut off as punishment she she seeks medical advice from her local mechanic (wouldn’t you?), who stitches up the wound with a needle and thread.
Given a replacement limb in the form of a custom-made machine gun that can blast flesh from bone and blow gaping holes in its targets, this “machine girl” so terrifies the Yakuza that they hire a group of samurai warriors in bulletproof football helmets and shoulder pads.
Indefensible, senseless and as subtle as a chainsaw, Machine Girl exists for no reason other than to see how much gratuitous bloodshed it can squeeze into its running time. There’s really no reason not to like it.