This article is about the Japanese action film. For the music band, see Machine Girl (band).
The Machine Girl
Directed by
Noboru Iguchi
Written by
Noboru Iguchi
Produced by
Yoshinori Chiba Yōko Hayama Satoshi Nakamura
Starring
Minase Yashiro
Asami
Noriko Kijima
Honoka
Kentarō Shimazu
Ryōsuke Kawamura
Kentarō Kishi
Ryōji Okamoto
Tarō Suwa
Cinematography
Yasutaka Nagano
Edited by
Kenji Tanabe
Music by
Takashi Nakagawa
Production companies
Fever Dreams
Nikkatsu
Distributed by
Spotted Productions
Release dates
May 23, 2008 (2008-05-23) (US)
August 2, 2008 (2008-08-02) (Japan)
Running time
96 minutes
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
The Machine Girl (片腕マシンガール, Kataude Mashin Gāru, "One-armed Machine Girl") is a 2008 Japanese horror action comedy film written and directed by Noboru Iguchi, and starring Minase Yashiro, Asami, Kentarō Shimazu and Honoka. The plot follows an orphaned Japanese schoolgirl whose life is destroyed when her brother is killed by a son of a Ninja-Yakuza clan. When her hand is cut off, she replaces it with a makeshift machine gun and seeks revenge.
Special effects were completed by Yoshihiro Nishimura, who went on to direct Tokyo Gore Police. It was initially released in the United States on May 23, 2008 before premiering in Japan on August 2, 2008.
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