SHOGUN’S NINJA Trailer: Koichi Sakamoto Returns This Month With More Kunoichi Hero Action!
Koichi Sakamoto is back with more fun stuff in 2025!
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RISE OF THE MACHINE GIRLS Confirmed for North American Release
The follow-up to the sensational Japanese film The Machine Girls, Media Blasters recently announced the upcoming release of Rise of the Machine Girls for March 22. The original film is a story of revenge, featuring gravure idol Minase Yashiro in her film debut as protagonist Ami Hyuga. After the murder of her brother Yu and his friend Takeshi by members of a ninja-Yakuza family, she seeks revenge. Ultimately failing, they cut off her left arm. She seeks shelter with Takeshi’s family, who fit her with a prosthetic Machine Gun arm. Teaming up with Miki, Takeshi’s mother who wields a chainsaw, they eventually act out their bloody revenge, massacring the clan and eventually the leader of the bullies himself. The film was released by Media Blasters in a special Blu-Ray and DVD remaster in 2019. In this new film, a soft-reboot of the original, we again follow Ami, this time accompanied by her […]
RISE OF THE MACHINE GIRLS: Girls, Girl Fights, Gun Fights AND Tak Sakaguchi? Yes, Please!
If at one point you thought you’d never hear from the infamous Japanese machine girls of yesteryear, Death Row Family helmer Yuki Kobayashi is here to steal your gaze once more for the next chapter in reboot form, Rise Of The Machine Girls. Actresses Himena Tsukimiya leads the way as Ami, the latest victim to lose an arm during a surprise attack on a black market organ-trafficking ring. When she eventually gets her arm fitted with some heavy artillery, she infiltrates the organization only to be forced to battle the newly-transformed killer cyborg that used to be her sister, Yoshie, played by Kanon Hanakage. Both actress are joined in reunion with Red Blade co-star and martial arts movie man-on-a-mission, actor Tak Sakaguchi, and if you’ve been a fan of Machine Girls or have been a DVD collector back in the heydays of Media Blasters (home to Noboru Iguchi’s 2008 original), […]