As threatened, GameSetWatch columnist Matt Hawkins has reviewed the American premiere of Oneechanbara, which had its American debut at the New York Asian Film Festival. Hawkins looks at it from a different perspective from the review we linked earlier — that of a person who was awake and actively watching the film. It’s exhaustive, but for those who want a quick summary, Hawkins, at one point writes on whether the movie is good or not, “Define ‘good.’”
He also writes “exposed breasts” which has us firing up the Netflix queue.
Watched so you don’t have to! The New York Asian Film Festival recently kicked off, showing lots and lots of, you guessed it, Asian films. Included in that pan-Pacific cinematic buffet was OneChanbara — a film we actually want to see. That Girl from the cleverly named That Girl’s Site saw the flick, blogging:
I went to go check out Chanbara Beauty on Friday but unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) I had a little too much to drink right before the movie so I didn’t get to see it in its entirety because I fell asleep. I remember some zombies and some chick in a bikini named Aya who had a sword, and she used this sword to fight the zombies. At some point I woke up and she was fighting some other chick who was in a school uniform of some kind. I don’t remember ever seeing this little girl [with arrow]in the movie so I have no idea who she is or what she has to do with the movie. And then the movie ended.
We would’ve remembered everything if we had seen it. But we didn’t, so tough tooty.
OneChanbara Review [That Girl's Site]
Japanese figure maker Alter has put up new listings for its fall figurine line-up which includes a Persona 3 Elizabeth from sculptor Fumiki Saitou and an Oneechanbara VorteX Aya from Goutarou Takeuchi. The Elizabeth (pictured) is 22cm tall and books at ¥6,090 (US$58), while the Aya (after the jump) is 25cm tall and priced at ¥8,190 (US$78). Aya, of course, is more expensive because she is 3cm higher and not because she is in her skippies and carrying swords. Oh no.
Yep! That first Oneechanbara: The Movie trailer was just a tease. So many blanks to fill in! Like, well, yeah. Anyway, this is pretty much exactly what we were imagining — down even to the schmalzy music, cheesy effects and exploding decapitated heads. What, you were expecting something else? Oneechanbara Trailer [Megatonik] More »
newVideoPlayer("oneechanbara.flv", 475, 376,""); Blood-drenched, katana-wielding cowgirls are pretty much the best thing to ever happen to Japanese budget publisher D3. That and Earth Defence Force are its current bread and butter. We’ll see how well the film adaptation of Oneechanbara, the bikinied hack ‘n’ slash zombie-killer holds up to 90 minutes of “story” when it’s released abroad in April. Since I’ll be watching it with the sound off anyway, it should get the job done. For now, a trailer and some imagination will have to suffice.
