Tokyo Gore Police is hands down the most insane movie I have ever had the pleasure of watching. Even now, as I try to write a review of this (because god knows you can't watch anything if I don't review it *rimshot*), I'm having trouble finding a way to adequately explain just exactly what the hell I watched. Still, I will press on, and hopefully by the end of this, something will click and I'll start making sense. If not, think of it as an homage to the movie presented before you.
Tokyo Gore Police is set in the near future in the city of Tokyo (obviously). The police force has been privatized (much like Robocop), owned by corporations. Also spurting up is the new generation of criminal, known as "engineers". These engineers are genetically modified killers who are able to regenerate lost limbs into weapons of destruction (from a gun to an alligator head... seriously) to keep their rampage going. Ruka (Eihi Shiina) is the best engineer hunter the Tokyo Police Corporation has, and the story generally follows her on her quest to avenge her father's killer.
I say "generally" because, well, the plot does not matter whatsoever. It's really there to lend some sort of coherence to the events, but it doesn't really accomplish that in any believable way. There are plot holes aplenty, you don't really know how the Tokyo Police Force is affected by being privatized (only that it is), and none of the characters are particularly well fleshed out. And while these issues would matter for a film striving to be classically good, Tokyo Gore Police just spits in its face and goes on a rampage.
What a rampage it is too. If you thought the violence in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 or more recently Kick-Ass was over the top, you haven't seen anything yet. Tokyo Gore Police is the most violent thing I have ever seen. Save for about ten minutes where the movie attempts to give Ruka some sort of backstory, the screen is constantly filled with violence on top of blood on top of more violence. I don't think my eyes have ever been assaulted with such force before. The opening scene sets the stage completely: a Leatherface-ish dude is wrecking havoc, shooting chainsaws (!) from his arms and decapitating police officers. Ruka comes in to save the day and the chops the guy to smithereens, the blood squirting out like a faucet turned on high. If you really want to see if you'll like Tokyo Gore Police, watch that opening scene because that is the tamest thing that happens.
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