A while back it was announced that the Japanese hack-and-slash game OneeChanbara was being made into a movie, and now we have a brief trailer (embedded above). It may not show much, just some dark shots of the decidedly hot protagonist tilting her hat, doing expressive dance in a field, and staring at the camera, but it’s only a teaser after all.
While video game movies are notorious for just sucking in general, this one has potential. First, there’s no Uwe Boll in sight; and second, the game’s plot seems simple enough that it can’t be ruined by scriptwriters who think they know better than the people who created the game. Which brings us to where the real potential lies: the game is about a Japanese cowgirl who runs around in a bikini gorily killing zombies and other creatures with her katana.
Here’s a clip from the game:
Now imagine it’s live action, with the same over the top blood and dismembereddistorsoed legs, but with more realistic zombies, slightly less repetitive action, and Eri Otoguro in a bikini instead of a virtual woman. Tits, ass, violence, zombies–it pretty much writes itself. It’s planned to come out this April, and all they needed to do was make it last 90 minutes without bogging it down by including too much plot, so let’s hope they did it right and it turns out to be a campy, totally awesome zombie film. I mean, how can they go wrong?
*That’s rhetorical. I’m sure they’ll find plenty of ways to make it far less awesome than it should be.
While video game movies are notorious for just sucking in general, this one has potential. First, there’s no Uwe Boll in sight; and second, the game’s plot seems simple enough that it can’t be ruined by scriptwriters who think they know better than the people who created the game. Which brings us to where the real potential lies: the game is about a Japanese cowgirl who runs around in a bikini gorily killing zombies and other creatures with her katana.
Here’s a clip from the game:
Now imagine it’s live action, with the same over the top blood and dismembereddistorsoed legs, but with more realistic zombies, slightly less repetitive action, and Eri Otoguro in a bikini instead of a virtual woman. Tits, ass, violence, zombies–it pretty much writes itself. It’s planned to come out this April, and all they needed to do was make it last 90 minutes without bogging it down by including too much plot, so let’s hope they did it right and it turns out to be a campy, totally awesome zombie film. I mean, how can they go wrong?
*That’s rhetorical. I’m sure they’ll find plenty of ways to make it far less awesome than it should be.
