Japanese filmmaker/makeup FX artist Yoshihiro Nishimura (pictured) has tackled all sorts of genre staples and given them his own bizarre spin in his features, from the mutants of TOKYO GORE POLICE to the modern variations on traditional creatures in his new VAMPIRE GIRL VS. FRANKENSTEIN GIRL. While presenting the world premiere of the latter at the currently running New York Asian Film Festival, Nishimura revealed he’ll be tackling the walking dead next.
“I’m going to work on a film where high-school girls go around running over a bunch of zombies,” he said. “You heard it here first! I think it will be lighter, but also bloodier than TOKYO GORE POLICE.” Anyone who’s seen the latter knows that’ll be quite a feat. And those who attended the festival’s “Tokyo Gore Night” on Saturday, featuring Nishimura, MACHINE GIRL director Noburo Iguchi (who posed as VAMPIRE GIRL co-director Naoyuki Tomomatsu at times over the weekend), visual FX supervisor Tsuyoshi Kazuno and actor/action director Tak Sakaguchi, got quite a treat via several TOKYO GORE tie-in shorts, a screening of the feature with live commentary, the trailer for Iguchi’s forthcoming ROBOGEISHA and much more weirdness. See the video below for one of the evening’s highlights, and our previous report on VAMPIRE GIRL VS. FRANKENSTEIN GIRL here.
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|2009-07-01 09:15:19 JapanMan
People really need to give props to the American production company Fever Dreams. They've been financing all these guys movies since 2005 without a single line of press.
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