{"id":19996,"date":"2014-08-15T03:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tokyo-shock-cinema-a-retrospective-and-must-see-list-watch-online\/"},"modified":"2014-08-15T03:10:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T00:10:00","slug":"tokyo-shock-cinema-a-retrospective-and-must-see-list-watch-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tokyo-shock-cinema-a-retrospective-and-must-see-list-watch-online\/","title":{"rendered":"#Tokyo Shock Cinema \u2013 A Retrospective and Must See List Watch Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2d2196096df\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2d2196096df\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tokyo-shock-cinema-a-retrospective-and-must-see-list-watch-online\/#%E2%80%9CTokyo_Shock_Cinema_%E2%80%93_A_Retrospective_and_Must_See_List_Watch_Online%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Tokyo Shock Cinema \u2013 A Retrospective and Must See List Watch Online&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CTokyo_Shock_Cinema_%E2%80%93_A_Retrospective_and_Must_See_List_Watch_Online%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Tokyo Shock Cinema \u2013 A Retrospective and Must See List Watch Online&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>If you want to watch Tokyo Shock Cinema \u2013 A Retrospective and Must See List  visit the <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div><strong>Tokyo Shock Cinema \u2013 A Retrospective<br \/><\/br><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"225\"  src=\"https:\/\/horrornews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/tokyo-gore-2-400x225.jpg\"  title=\"tokyo-gore-2\" width=\"400\"><\/img>If you are a horror fan, if you are an Asian film horror fan or if you are an extreme horror fan, you have likely come across one if not more of these wonderfully quirky over-the-top films. The genre has struggled with classifying them as they tend to combine several different influences both Asian an Western. Lets throw out a few classifications, so that we are on the right page.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"300\"  src=\"https:\/\/horrornews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/tokyo-gore-1-400x300.jpg\"  title=\"tokyo-gore-1\" width=\"400\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>These modern style Asian gore experiences have gone more recently under the classification of \u201c<strong>Tokyo Shock Cinema\u201d<\/strong> or \u201c<strong>Tokyo Gore<\/strong>\u201d which in a way is a small tribute to one of its leading examples \u201cTokyo Gore Police\u201c. Though the classification may still seem not entirely inclusive as the films tend to combine a variety of influenced elements such as <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/anime-manga\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"6\" title=\"Anime || Manga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manga<\/a>, cyberpunk, comic books, samurai, gore, Japanese splatter punk, kabuki and martial arts. Now add to this an umbrella of dark comedy which easily separates the films from more hardcore torture p*rn style in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Horror <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> offers many more Asian Film Articles, make sure and check them out!<\/p>\n<p>When the \u201c<strong>Ring<\/strong>\u201d craze arrived, others were quick to lump similar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> under J-Horror, K-horror, and even the more interesting title of \u201cwet girls\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/horrornews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/hell_driver.jpg\" title=\"hell_driver\" width=\"335\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>It seems though that as quickly as the trend emerged, it faded almost as fast when westerners started to realize that every film in that genre resembled the next. \u201c<strong>Tokyo Shock Cinema<\/strong>\u201d arrived early on and on the most part snuck under the radar. We had earlier films like \u201c<strong>Meatball Machine<\/strong>\u201d that while received with varied results often confused viewers who didn\u2019t exactly know what they were watching. In fact one might even compare it to a shrunk down version of UltraMan episode.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"300\"  src=\"https:\/\/horrornews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/meatball_machine-400x300.jpg\"  title=\"meatball_machine\" width=\"400\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>This was often do to a perception of being a hybrid that takes the elements of extreme horror like gore, rape, and phallic sexual innuendos pumped out in a comedic, kinetic way that also manages to mix in several organic robotics. Add to that the element of varied levels of martial arts, and you have this adult version of a whacked out Sid and Marty Krofft meets SAW kind of experience. In fact it has been said that it\u2019s not uncommon for variations of creatures and human abominations <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earing like something out of a GWAR video.<\/p>\n<p>For viewers like me, this was not only a welcome addition but in my mind the most inventive of its kind. The early influences were still apparent to Asian horror film lovers who can recall back to films like \u201c<strong>Magic of Spell<\/strong>\u201d (1986) and \u201c<strong>964 Pinocchio<\/strong>\u201d (1992) using a much more less-practical-effects driven premise. Viewers might classify \u201c<strong>Meatball Machine<\/strong>\u201d (2005) as one of the earlier hybrids emerging out of this foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Cyberpunk lovers will also recognize the influence from films like <strong>\u201cShinya Tsukamoto\u2019s \u201cTetsuo: The Iron Man\u201d (1989)<\/strong> and <strong>\u201cTetsuo II: Body Hammer\u201d (1989).<\/strong> Though I would have to say that the Tetsuo approach was much more in a cyberpunk vein with its experimental usage of stop motion than it was as a Tokyo Gore icon.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, astute viewers can literally follow the trends and their culmination leading to the current batch of modern film styles. It is apparent that at least for now,Tokyo Gore style is here to stay.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo Gore is usually identifed by 2 other factors, it\u2019s editing style and it\u2019s use of modified body parts. The body parts may come in the form of a weapon or a abomination that is emerged in a fantastical way from human origin.. It seems if you can imagine it\u2026.. it will eventually will become cinema reality. Breasts that fire rockets, machine gun arm attachments, lethal crotch weapons, hands emitting swords, phallic nose missiles, robotic eyes, extruded or enlarged body parts\u2026\u2026well the list goes on. Now add to this a very high kinetic use of editing that almost becomes a character in itself. You\u2019ll know em when you see em.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"272\"  src=\"https:\/\/horrornews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/tetsuo.jpg\"  title=\"tetsuo\" width=\"400\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>As reports trickle in, it\u2019s apparent that while the Asian market is more or less embarrassed at times by this style (the traditional Asians), the western world is eating it up like \u2026well \u2026Sushi.<span id=\"more-37084\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This leads me to a more \u201choned in\u201d classification which seems to be driven by a films company almost entirely dedicated to this style of film making <strong>Sushi Typhoon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"274\"  src=\"https:\/\/horrornews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/nyaff09e-400x274.jpg\"  title=\"nyaff09e\" width=\"400\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the genre classification in future years will be simplified as \u201c<strong>Sushi Typhoon\u201d<\/strong> style to wrangle in the confusion. Sushi Typhoon\u2019s recent entry Alien vs. Ninja\u201d seems to be doing well with a few like-productions soon to arrive. These latest efforts being <strong>\u201cHelldriver\u201c, \u201cDead Ball\u201d \u201cMutants Girls Squad\u201d <\/strong>and<strong> \u201cYakuza Weapon\u201c<\/strong> They have also attracted an impressive pool of talent who are responsible for many of these style films.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"280\"  src=\"https:\/\/horrornews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Hell3.jpg\"  width=\"440\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>The one name to have had a master hand in Tokyo Gore productions is \u201cYoshihiro Nishimura\u201d You can literally follow Nishimura\u2019s credit list for a map of all things Tokyo Gore. His credits range from FX to Director. Though if you follow the breadcrumb trail, you\u2019ll also see the collaborative and directing talent of names such as <strong>Naoyuki Tomomatsu, Noboru Iguchi, and Kengo Kaji.<\/strong> I found that many of these films have alot of the same talents on board.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"282\"  src=\"https:\/\/horrornews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/vampire-girl-vs-frankenstein-girl-bloody-fingers-eyeS.jpg\"  width=\"500\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve included a master list for those who might be new to the style or who just want to check out other options. I cant say that every one of these is exceptional, but at least you\u2019ll stay within the genre pool.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below is an Essential Viewing list of \u201c<strong>Tokyo Shock Cinema<\/strong>\u201d style films:<br \/><\/br> (More will added as they become relevant)<br \/><\/br><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meatball Machine (2005)<br \/><\/br><\/strong><br \/><\/br><strong>Hard Revenge, Milly (2008)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Onechanbara (2008)<br \/><\/br><\/strong><br \/><\/br><strong>Tokyo Gore Police (2008)<br \/><\/br><\/strong><br \/><\/br><strong>The Machine Girl (2008)<br \/><\/br><\/strong><br \/><\/br><strong>Oppai Chanbara: S<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>tease Samurai (2008)<br \/><\/br><\/strong><br \/><\/br><strong>RoboGeisha (2009)<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br> Hard Revenge, Milly: Bloody Battle (2009)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Samurai Princess (2009)<br \/><\/br><\/strong><br \/><\/br><strong>OneChanbara: The Movie \u2013 Vortex (2009)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vampire Girl VS. Frankenstein Girl (2009)<\/strong><br \/><\/br><strong><br \/><\/br>Alien Vs. Ninjas (2010)<br \/><\/br><\/strong><br \/><\/br><strong>Mutant Girls Squad (2010)<\/strong><br \/><\/br><strong><br \/><\/br>Big Tits Zombie (2010)<\/strong><br \/><\/br><strong><br \/><\/br>HellDriver (2010)<br \/><\/br><\/strong><br \/><\/br><strong>Gothic &#038; Lolita Psycho (2010)<br \/><\/br><\/strong><br \/><\/br><strong>Yakuza Weapon (2011)<br \/><\/br><\/strong><br \/><\/br><strong>Deadball (2011)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead (2011)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tokyo Shock Cinema \u2013\u00a0 A Retrospective on the films and trends<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/horrornews.net\/37084\/tokyo-gore-style-a-retrospective-on-the-films-and-trends-tokyo-extreme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-movies-tv-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch Movies &#038; TV Series <\/a>category<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to watch Movies or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Tokyo Shock Cinema \u2013 A Retrospective and Must See List Watch Online&#8221; If you want to watch Tokyo Shock Cinema \u2013 A Retrospective and Must See List visit the Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com Tokyo Shock Cinema \u2013 A Retrospective If you are a horror fan, if you are an Asian film horror fan or if you are an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[31909,31911,31910,31773,31819,31912,31913,31858,31876,31848,31845,31849,31914,31908,31907],"class_list":["post-19996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-watch-movies-tv-seriess","tag-asian-film-articles","tag-cyberpunk","tag-exclusive-articles","tag-feature-article","tag-feature-lists","tag-japanese-cyberpunk","tag-meatball-machine","tag-robogeisha","tag-sushi-typhoon","tag-tokyo-extreme","tag-tokyo-gore","tag-tokyo-gore-police","tag-tokyo-shock-cinema","tag-tokyo-shock-cinema-a-retrospective-and-must-see-list","tag-tokyo-shock-cinema-a-retrospective-and-must-see-list-watch-online"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}