Meatball Machine
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Theatrical poster to Meatball Machine (2005)
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Yūdai Yamaguchi Jun'ichi Yamamoto |
| Produced by | Yukihiko Yamaguchi |
| Written by | Junya Kato |
| Starring | Issei Takahashi Aoba Kawai Kenichi Kawasaki Shōichirō Masumoto Tōru Tezuka Ayano Yamamoto |
| Cinematography | Shinji Kugimiya Shuji Momose |
| Distributed by | King Record Co. (Japan) TLA Releasing (USA) |
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90 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Meatball Machine (ミートボールマシン Mītobōru mashin?) is a 2005 Japanese science fiction horror and gore film directed by Yūdai Yamaguchi and Jun'ichi Yamamoto based on a film by Yamamoto from 1999. Special effects and makeup effects were by Yoshihiro Nishimura.
Yōji is a young lonely factory worker who falls for an equally lonely girl co-worker, Sachiko, but is unable to tell her of his interest. After he is assaulted in a theater by a crossdresser, Yōji finds what looks like an alien insect and hides it in his room. The next night, he comes across Sachiko being sexually attacked by another fellow worker. He attempts to come to her aid but is beaten. Sachiko feels sorry for him and returns with him to his apartment. During this encounter, Sachiko is attacked by the alien object which penetrates her and turns her into a bio-mechanical monster, a NecroBorg. These parasites take over human bodies and use their flesh to create weapons which they use to fight each other. Yōji is also infected and the plot eventually leads to a showdown fight to the death between the two would-be lovers. A side plot concerns a father who is out to kill the NecroBorgs who have also infected his daughter.
Meatball Machine is based on a 1999 film of the same name written, produced and directed by Jun'ichi Yamamoto. The 70 minute theatrical version was released in Japan on May 22, 1999 and starred Toshihisa Watanabe, Akiko Sasaki and Rino Sōma.
The special effects, special makeup effects and moldmaking for the NecroBorgs were done by noted effects artist Yoshihiro Nishimura who would go on to do effects for The Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police.
The movie was released theatrically in Japan on September 23, 2006. The DVD was released in Japan on February 7, 2007. The USA version of the DVD with English subtitles came out June 5, 2007. The DVD releases also contain the original 1999 version of Meatball Machine edited down to a 13-minute short, a making-of featurette and another short Reject or Death which expands on the side plot of the scientist father and his daughter.
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