Tokyo Gore Police

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Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura Year: 2008 Runtime: 110 min IMDb: ⭐ 5.9

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Synopsis

In a futuristic Tokyo where police have been privatized and bitter self-mutilation is so casual that advertising is often specially geared to the 'cutter' demographic, Ruka is on a mission to avenge her father's assassination. Ruka is a cop from a squad whose goal is to destroy homicidal mutant humans known as 'engineers', that possess the ability to transform any injury to a weapon in and of itself.

In a dystopian Japan, a mad scientist known as the "Key Man" creates a virus that mutates humans into monstrous creatures called "Engineers" that sprout bizarre biomechanical weapons from injuries. To deal with Engineers, the Tokyo Police Force forms a special squad called "Engineer Hunters." The Hunters are a private quasi-military force that utilizes violence, sadism, and streetside executions to maintain law and order. Among the Hunters is Ruka, a troubled loner skilled in dispatching Engineers. Besides helping the police, she is obsessed with finding the mysterious assassin who killed her father, an old-fashioned officer, in broad daylight. After killing a cannibalistic Engineer named Koji Tanaka, Ruka receives a new case that leads to the Key Man himself. He infects her by inserting a key-shaped tumor into her scar-riddled left forearm before disappearing. Meanwhile, while visiting a strip-club featuring several Engineers as dancers, the Police Chief becomes infected. He massacres the main precinct, causing the Tokyo Police Commissioner to order a city-wide crackdown on Engineers – indiscriminately executing anyone suspected of being one. Continuing her investigation, Ruka learns that the Key Man was originally a scientist named Akino Miyama, and confronts him at his home. There she learns the truth about their past. Akino's father was a police sniper forced to resign after a failed operation resulted in him sustaining a severe leg injury. Desperate to keep his family out of poverty, he agrees to assassinate Ruka's father, who was leading a rally against the privatization of the police force. Shortly after gunning down Ruka's father, Akino's father was killed by the police commissioner – the real mastermind. Determined to avenge his father's death, Akino injected himself with the DNA of several infamous criminals, turning himself into the Key Man. Realizing they are seeking vengeance on the same man, Ruka slices Akino in half with her katana and heads back to the precinct. On her way, she witnesses the police force brutalizing civilians accused of being Engineers. When her friend, a local bar owner, is drawn and quartered, Ruka's left arm mutates into an alien-like head with razor-sharp claws before she beheads the officers behind the execution. During her rampage, she is shot in the right eye by one of the officers, but her body quickly replaces it with a biomechanical one. Ruka confronts the police commissioner, who admits to her father's assassination, but explains that upon learning of the Key Man and the Engineers, he raised her to become the perfect Engineer Hunter as a form of atonement. Following a grueling sword fight, Ruka dismembers and eventually decapitates the commissioner – effectively ending his reign over the police force. The post-credit scene reveals the Key Man is alive, having mended himself with the help of one of his test subjects.

Summary adapted from TMDb and Wikipedia sources.

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someone is sexually assaulted

spoiler Main character gets felt up by a man on the subway. Another man keeps a woman without arms and legs as pet/slave and makes her perform oral sex on him.

a woman is brutalized for spectacle

Yes

there's abusive parents

Yes

someone gets gaslighted

Yes

someone is stalked

Yes

there's addiction

Yes

alcohol abuse

Yes

someone uses drugs

spoiler A man draws an injection needle on his arm and pretends like it’s real drugs. A man injects himself multiple times with injection needles filled with a bright green liquid that seems to make him stronger.

an animal dies

spoiler A man eats live insects.

there's a dead animal

Yes

animals were harmed in the making

spoiler roaches, as mentioned in other sections

there are spiders

spoiler An extra is seen eating roaches.

there are bugs

spoiler Very gross close ups of a man chewing on live insects.

there's an alligator or crocodile

Yes

there's genital trauma/mutilation

spoiler a dick is cut off

there's finger/toe mutilation

spoiler A b*m pincher has his hand cut off.

there's amputation

spoiler Multiple amputations throughout. Very graphic

hands are damaged

Yes

someone dislocates something

Yes

a woman gets slapped

Yes

someone is restrained

spoiler Restraint occurs several times. Early in the movie, a character is restrained with knife-like objects pinning them against a wall. Later, another character is restrained in a medical chair in a BDSM setting, with belts around their wrists and ankles. Later in the movie, another character is restrained with rope.

someone's mouth is covered

Yes

a kid dies

spoiler Kid dies in a police ad

a baby cries

Yes

a major character dies

Yes

someone dies

Yes

someone disabled played by able-bodied

Yes

a parent dies

spoiler The protagonists father dies in a flasback.

a family member dies

Yes

there are jump scares

Yes

trypophobic content is shown

Yes

there are razors

spoiler Multiple depictions of self-harm throughout

There's audio gore

spoiler The entire movie is filled with the sounds of blood spurting, people screaming in agony, bones crunching, flesh ripping apart, and flesh burning.

someone is eaten

spoiler Not shown in detail, but can be inferred. In the beginning of the movie, a man is shown eating meat before the camera pans to a human corpse. There is also a later instance of someone having their penis torn off.

someone wets/soils themselves

Yes

there's eye mutilation

spoiler The protagonist is shot in the eye at one point. It grows back.

teeth are damaged

spoiler No, *however* the first scene of the movie has a chainsaw plunged into someone's mouth.

heads get squashed

spoiler A head explodes in the first few minutes of runtime

there's decapitation

Yes

there is copaganda

spoiler There is in-universe copaganda (ex: ads advertising the police and glamourizing police brutality). However, said copaganda is satirical and the public is meant to see these ads as dystopian and messed up. The villains are the police. However, the protagonist and her father are framed as "good cops"

needles/syringes are used

Yes

someone has cancer

spoiler Bad guys have a key shaped tumors

there's a hospital scene

spoiler Two very brief scenes. The first one has a character laying in bed after being attacked. Nothing medical occurs. The second scene occurs near the end. A doctor is seen carrying a tumor in a vial.

there's misophonia

spoiler lots of extremely gross chewing/slurping sounds when a character is eating bugs (about 28 mins in)

someone suffers from PTSD

Yes

D.I.D. Misrepresentation

Yes

there's body dysmorphia

spoiler The premise of the film is that certain people's injured body parts regenerate as weapons due to the experiments of a serial murdering mad scientist.

someone has a mental illness

Yes

someone has a meltdown

Yes

someone's throat is mutilated

spoiler Early in the movie, one of the police officers has a chainsaw lodged in their throat. Throughout the movie there are multiple instances of decapitation. At one point, a character pulls away clothing to reveal intense throat scarring.

someone struggles to breathe

Yes

someone asphyxiates

Yes

somebody is choked

Yes

there's flashing lights or images

spoiler Lot of flashing, lot of sudden cuts, and a lot of shaky cam work. This is not an epilepsy-friendly movie.

there are sudden loud noises

Yes

shaky cam is used

Yes

there's screaming

Yes

there is obscene language/gestures

spoiler Surprisingly little swearing (other than a few instances of "shit" and "bastard") for a movie this edgy

someone is watched without knowing

Yes

there is a baby or unborn child

Yes

there's ableist language or behavior

spoiler a quadruple amputee is treated as a pet and/or sexual object

someone speaks hate speech

spoiler The Cheif of Police hates mutants.

there's blackface

spoiler Towards the end of the movie, a cop can be seen in blackface and acts highly inept. They're next to another cop dressed as a Chinese caricature who says they "love killing Japanese people".

a minority is misrepresented

spoiler Two extremely racist caricatures of a chinese person and a black person show up near the end

someone says the n-word

spoiler no n words but there is blackface towards the end

there's a large age gap

Yes

someone dies by suicide

Yes

Someone attempts suicide

spoiler doctor attempts to jump from a rooftop

someone self harms

spoiler The protagonist cuts herself.

someone says "I'll kill myself"

spoiler A character's mother is seen injuring herself while crying that she "can't take it anymore" and that she wants to kill herself. A satirical ad on the TV has an employee agree to commit suicide for failing at their job.

a minor is sexualized

Yes

there is sexual content

spoiler Certain mutants have weapons hidden in their... um... y'know... The protagonist encounters a bottom pincher on a subway car. An amputee is kept as a pet."

there are nude scenes

Yes

someone is sexually objectified

Yes

there's BDSM

spoiler Multiple references to BDSM in the movie, one occurring in a hotel setting, the other occurring in a club setting. Toys are visible in both settings and the club has multiple latex-suiters. One character in the movie is kept in a gas mask and on a leash.

there's pedophilia

Yes

sexual assault is mentioned

spoiler A character insults another by referring to them as having "been raped by an Engineer". This is present in the English dub, but may not be in the original Japanese version.

someone is terminally ill

Yes

there's end credits scenes?

spoiler Two brief scenes occur during the credits.

a person is hit by a car

spoiler Towards the end of the movie, a civilian is deliberately ran over by a cop.

a car crashes

Yes

a car honks or tires screech

spoiler Fairly certain there are, as there are multiple close-ups on tires spinning and several views of traffic.

there's blood/gore

spoiler It's in the title. If you're even interested in watching this movie, you probably know what you're getting into. The point of the movie is to be as bloody and gory as possible. I will note that it's all very over-the-top and not realistic, however.

there's gun violence

Yes

there's excessive gore

spoiler Right there in the title. It's over-the-top gory.

there's torture

spoiler In the sex club scene, a character is restrained and their genitals are bitten off before a drill is rammed into their ankle.

there's body horror

spoiler Where to start. 1. First Engineer encountered has chainsaws for hands and grows a flesh one after his arm is cut off. 2. During a flashback, a police officer's head explodes in spectacular fashion. 3. Another Engineer encountered rips his face off and grows gun turrets to replace his eyes. 4. A character is converted to an Engineer by having their arm "unlocked", splitting the flesh apart down the middle. This happens with someone's head later. 5. In the sex club scene, one Engineer is seen with teethed mouths replacing her breasts, another is seen with snail-like features, and another is a fleshy chair. 6. An Engineer's genitals and thighs are turned into a crocodilian maw. 7. One character's penis is turned into a large, fleshy gun that shoots people. 8. One girl has a boxcutter fused to her arm and her breasts spray acid. 9. The protagonist develops a toothy jaw to replace her arm as well as a red monocle-like eye.

there's cannibalism

Yes

there's shaving/cutting

spoiler Yes self harm is a theme in the movie and shown multiple times.

someone is stabbed

Yes

Someone becomes unconscious

Yes

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