Zombie Self-Defense Force

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Zombie Self-Defense Force
Zonbi jieitai
Directed byNaoyuki Tomomatsu
Screenplay by
  • Naoyuki Tomomatsu
  • Chisato Ôgawara
Produced by
  • Kenjirô Nishi
  • Masami Teranishi
Starring
  • Miyû Watase
  • Mihiro
  • Kenji Arai
  • Yû Machimura
  • Masayuki Hase
  • Eriko Nagamine
Production
companies
Filmworks Movie King
GP Museum Soft
Distributed byGP Museum Soft
Release date
Running time
75 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Zombie Self-Defense Force (ゾンビ自衛隊, Zonbi jieitai) is a 2006 Japanese zombie comedy directed by Naoyuki Tomomatsu, written by Naoyuki Tomomatsu and Masami Teranishi, and starring Miyû Watase, Mihiro, Kenji Arai, Yû Machimura, Masayuki Hase, and . Mihiro plays a spoiled pop singer who barricades herself in a hotel with several soldiers during a zombie outbreak.

Plot[]

On a routine training exercise, soldiers from the Japan Self-Defense Forces encounter a UFO that releases strange radiation on a town. When the inhabitants turn into zombies, the soldiers and several survivors, including a spoiled pop singer, barricade themselves in a hotel and attempt to survive the assault.

Cast[]

  • Miyû Watase as Yuri Aso
  • Mihiro as Hitomi
  • Kenji Arai as Captain
  • Yû Machimura
  • Masayuki Hase
  • Jun Yamasaki as Hayakawa

Release[]

Zombie Self-Defense Force premiered at Dead by Dawn in Edinburgh on April 23, 2006. It was released on DVD in Japan on April 25, 2006.[1] ADV Films released it in the United States on October 13, 2009.[2]

Reception[]

Rodney Perkins of Twitch Film called it an uneven splatter film made in the style of Evil Dead II and Braindead.[3] Bill Gibron of DVD Talk rated it 3.5/5 stars and called it "a bucket full of bile topped off with a crazy comedic take on cannibalism" that is "meant to be stupid and weird and eccentric".[4] David Johnson of DVD Verdict wrote that although it equals Braindead in gore, it is not as well-executed.[5] Writing in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, academic Peter Dendle called it "a series of cheap homages and shock scenes delivered with underfunded cartoon aesthetics."[6]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Reminder: Naoyuki Tomomatsu's ZOMBIE SELF-DEFENSE FORCE (ZONBI JIEITAI) - a.k.a. "Zombie Jieitai"". Twitch Film. 2006-12-20. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
  2. ^ Rigney, Todd (2009-09-16). "Zombie Self Defense Force Coming To Region 1". BeyondHollywood.com. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
  3. ^ Perkins, Rodney (2009-10-24). "DVD Review: Naoyuki Tomomatsu's ZOMBIE SELF-DEFENSE FORCE". Twitch Film. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
  4. ^ Gibron, Bill (2009-10-13). "Zombie Self-Defense Force". DVD Talk. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
  5. ^ Johnson, David (2009-10-30). "Zombie Self-Defense Force". DVD Verdict. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
  6. ^ Dendle, Peter (2012). The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia: 2000-2010. McFarland Publishing. p. 230. ISBN 9780786492886.

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