Trailer - Assault Girls
Posted by Kevin Ouellette at 3:02pm on Friday, October 9, 2009
Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi, Future releases, Trailer Updates
Here’s the full theatrical trailer for Mamoru Oshii‘s live-action film, Assault Girls, the feature-length follow-up to his previous short films “Assault Girl: Kentucky no Hinako” and “Assault Girl 2”, both of which were part of omnibus action movies (2007’s “Shin Onna Tachiguishi Retsuden” and 2008’s “Kiru ~ Kill”, respectively).
Plot: In the aftermath of global thermonuclear war, the Earth’s surface has been turned into a desert battlefield. Three beautiful female hunters: Gray (Meisa Kuroki), Lucifer (Rinko Kikuchi), and Colonel (Hinako Saeki) traverse the barren landscape armed with powerful assault rifles to fight a group of deadly sand-dwelling monsters called “sunakujira” (sand whales). When the the epic battle eventually seems to be coming to an end, the sparkle of muzzle flash dies down and assault ship flies overhead. Suddenly, a gigantic super mutation called “Madara Sunakujira” attacks.
Tokyo Theatres Co., Inc. will be releasing “Assault Girls” at Theatre Shinjuku and Ikebukuro Theatre Daiya on December 19, 2009 with more national dates to follow.
Source: Official website
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Tags: assault girls, hinako saeki, mamoru oshii, meisa kuroki, rinko kikuchi, yoshikatsu fujiki
Comments
I’m totally willing to give it a pass for some questionable CGI moments, because this was most likely made at a tiny fraction of the cost of something like Blood: The Last Vampire which looked like utter shit on a $30m budget.
I do worry that it will be too artsy though. I’ve seen Assault Girl 2; it was incredibly boring and not at all what I expected. Hopefully this one is more about sci-fi action than art and symbolism.
This style of animation has been around a long time and has shown many advances since the Gojira days. I think the western audiences, which is where I am from, have not been introduced to this method of movie making in a way that surpasses the Power Ranger and its Saban variants. Believe it or not, there is alot within these movies that is based on yokai and similar legends. There is a terrific book called Pandemonium and Parade by author Michael Dylan Foster. If you find anime and Asian cinema a little confusing, I highly recommend this book. It will all make sense.
Just because a movie is low budget doesn’t mean it has to LOOK low budget. This is disappointing coming from the creator of Ghost in the shell
@Nyetwerke: Why the hell will it make sense, when this is simply idiotic ? I hope China wipes out Japan and makes them into their slaves.
never considered the high art tone of oshii’s interviews and story stylings to have much in common with energetic substandard dance beats. for me, this looks terrible - and it reminds me of his film “avalon” too, which isn’t doubly hard to take.