Above is a sales poster for Noboru Iguchi's The Machine Girl (Kataude mashin gâru). Distribution rights for the movie - a Fever Dreams LLC (U.S.) production - are to be offered for sale by Nikkatsu Corporation (Nikkatsu K.K.) at this year's American Film Market (AFM) in Santa Monica, California.

The screenplay for The Machine Girl was written by Iguchi. The movie stars Minase Yashiro and Asami. Yoshihiro Nishimura and his company Nishimura Motion Picture Model Makers Group (Y.K. Nishimura Eizô) - "NMPMMG" for short - were responsible for the movie's special effects, special make-up effects, and molds. Yûji Shimomura was its action choreographer. (Shimomura himself directed Death Trance.)

Here's a synopsis for The Machine Girl from the Fangoria article "Fever Dreams returns to Japan for MACHINE GIRL": "[The Machine Girl] is about a teenager named Ami who sets out for revenge on a gang of bullies who tortured her little brother to death. She winds up losing an arm along the way, and replaces it with a high-powered gun, à la Rose McGowan in Grindhouse. But she doesn't stop at one limb; Ami continues to lose body parts and replac[e] them with more weapons [apparently including a drill bra (doriru bura)]."

Iguchi's previous directing credits include Cat-Eyed Boy (Nekome kozô), Manji, Sukeban Boy (Oira sukeban), Snake Girl (Madara no shôjo), Saishû seiki! Natsume Nana - kyûkyoku no erosu, Impolite Education (18-kin - abunai kankei: the kinshinsôkan), and A Larva to Love (Koi suru yôchû).

NMPMMG: The Machine Girl (w/ stills)
AFM: The Machine Girl
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GOMORRAHY.com: Cat-Eyed Boy (w/ trailer, etc.)
GOMORRAHY.com: Manji (w/ trailer, etc.)
Sukeban Boy flyer (432 KB JPEG)
Sukeban Boy Japanese rental DVD cover (188 KB JPEG - viewer discretion is advised)
Snake Girl trailer (downloadable 5.6 MB MOV file)
Saishû seiki! Natsume Nana - kyûkyoku no erosu stills set (64 KB JPEG - viewer discretion is advised)
GOMORRAHY.com: Trailer Park subsite (w/ trailer for A Larva to Love, etc.)

Above is a second sales poster for The Machine Girl, together with a variation of the first one.

The abovementioned drill bra in The Machine Girl apparently isn't worn by Ami (Minase Yashiro), but rather by a character played by Honoka. BTW, Noriko Kijima is also in the movie.

A page for The Machine Girl has been added to GOMORRAHY.com, and on that page is a stills gallery for the movie.

GOMORRAHY.com: Noboru Iguchi's The Machine Girl (Kataude mashin gâru)

The Machine Girl trailer (QuickTime)

The Machine Girl trailer (Windows Media Video)

A clip from the Minase Yashiro idol video (IV) Dôshitemo... has just been added to the page for The Machine Girl on GOMORRAHY.com. BTW, Hiroko Yashiki and Erika Terajima are also in The Machine Girl. (For an extensive cast list for The Machine Girl, see the page in question.)

GOMORRAHY.com: The Machine Girl

This trailer has been tearing up the internet(s) as of late. Both Entertainment Weekly and VH-1 have picked up on it:

http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2007/12/machine-girl-tr.html

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2007/12/12/trai...-he-could-make/

Just going to show you that cute Asian girls that kill people with their robotic arms is the subgenre to watch!

I'm waiting for MACHINE GIRL VS. GO GO YUBARI.

With regard to the widespread criticism that the character Ami (Minase Yashiro) in The Machine Girl is a rip-off of the character Cherry Darling (Rose McGowan) in Grindhouse, above is a set of vidcaps from Iguchi's 2006 movie Sukeban Boy (Oira sukeban), which was based on the manga serial "Oira sukeban" by Gô Nagai.

BTW, Unicorn Entertainment International Limited released Sukeban Boy on DVD (NTSC, region-free, English subtitles) in Hong Kong on February 1st of this year; the DVD can be purchased for only $5.13 U.S. from DDDHouse.com (Haus Ltd.).

DDDHouse.com: Sukeban Boy H.K. DVD

NMPMMG: Sukeban Boy (viewer discretion is advised)

Sukeban Boy flyer (432 KB JPEG)

Sukeban Boy Japanese rental DVD cover (188 KB JPEG - viewer discretion is advised)

Tiara: Asami (star of Sukeban Boy, co-star of The Machine Girl)

Below are direct links to the trailer for Sukeban Boy and the clip from Dôshitemo....

VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED

Sukeban Boy trailer (QuickTime)

Dôshitemo... clip (QuickTime)

Source: GOMORRAHY.com Trailer Park subsite (an "NSFW ghetto", and unabashedly so!)