10 Outrageous Japanese Films Hollywood Wouldn't Dare Remake

A must-see for fans of gore-soaked ultra-violence, Tokyo Gore Police is a career high for special effects creator Yoshihiro Nishimura (who also directed), who designs the kind of creatures you don’t see in Hollywood fare, including a crocodile woman, a gangster with a six foot penis gun (whose lethal projectiles never miss) and breasts that produce flesh-devouring toxic waste.

Anyway, the plot: genetically modified super-criminals are on the loose in Japan and their ability to grow weapons from any injury means they’re proving tough to defeat. Known as “engineers”, they’re hunted across Tokyo by Ruka (Eihi Shiina, who’s also in Takashi Miike’s Audition) a samurai sword-wielding heroine who self-mutilates in order to stave off flashbacks to her father’s murder.

Intercut with all this are fake TV advertisements thay makes Robocop seem subtle. Best of all is the ad extolling the virtues of Tokyo’s privatized police force (“We will protect you!”) who claim to have no mercy for criminals….and immediately gun down a murderer live on film.

“Privatizing the police force will lead to more plentiful lives for us,” claims the narrator. “For a better society – Tokyo Police Corporation!”

Blood, monsters and satire – why can’t Hollywood make films like this?