Samurai Chicks

On the southern islands of Japan lies the Orion Dancers Academy where girls learn to sing and dance… or so they’d like you to believe. Actually, the dance academy is a front for a school of female warriors-in-training. Disguised as singers and actresses in Tokyo, these girl warrior secret agents are out to gain independence from the island. Watching music …

Cool Dimension: Innocent Assassin

Haunted by a long-lost childhood memory, a beautiful assassin tries to escape her dangerous career in this action-packed thriller. From the time she was a child, Shiori was forced to be a trained killer, but when she recalls a suppressed memory, the femme fatale decides to leave the only life she’s ever known. Now, she’s ready to face the future, …

Robo Geisha

Director Noboru Iguchi and gore master Yoshihiro Nishimura team up for this hyper-violent and hilariously grotesque depiction of a very angry army of butt sword-wielding geisha robots with enough strength to embed tempura shrimp in villains’ eyes. Special effects in Iguchi’s (Machine Girl) over-the-top, feminist melodrama include chainsaw lips, blood-spouting buildings, geisha transformers, machine gun bras and some basic decapitations. …

Beautiful Prey

This Japanese thriller finds a beautiful policewoman becoming entangled in Japan’s S&M underground while investigating a gruesome murder. Soon, her investigation has led her to a seductive sadist and his equally appealing masochist victim. Falling prey to her suspects’ powerful allure, she struggles to extricate herself from an increasingly torrid affair to solve the mystery she set out to investigate. …