Junk (Shiryô-gari) - A 2000 Japanese Zombie Horror Movie
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The dead will devour the living
Junk Synopsis
In a top-secret military laboratory, scientists are struggling to defeat man's oldest rival. Death. With the development of the revolutionary drug, DNX, the fight to restore life has been won. But there is no time for celebration as the hapless scientists discover that those who have been raised from the dead quickly acquire an insatiable hunger for raw human flesh!
When a group of jewellery thieves agree to meet up with their fence, their meeting is to take place in an abandoned compound where corpses are secretly stored together with the DNX. Bad move! And things only get worse when the drug spills out all over the corpses.
Having to contend with a beautiful super-zombie and the hordes of the undead that she now commands, as well as the double crossing fence and gang boss, Ramon, the griup realise that if they want to survive, they have a battle to the death on their hands... WITH THE DEAD.
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Junk was the first Japanese zombie horror movie that I had ever heard of so I was quite intrigued as most of the zombie horror movies that I had seen were from Italy, the UK or the US whereas Japanese horrors tended to focus on the supernatural or just plain bizarreness! I was fascinated to see Japans take on zombies.
The movie begins in a lab where a couple of scientists are trying to perfect the re-animation of corpses for use as cannon-fodder in the military, after a bit of zombie nastiness the movie cuts to a group of small-rime jewellery thieves about to rob a jewellery store. The robbery goes off quite smoothly and the thieves go to meet the Yakuza’s who they have arranged to sell the jewellery to. As it happens the sale is set to take place in an abandoned warehouse where the military just happen to be storing vats of re-animation fluid and a number of corpses!
The sale to the Yakuza doesn’t go as smoothly as the robbery and after a bit of a gun scuffle the experimental re-animation fluid and the corpses collide. Before long the robbers and the Yakuza are amid zombie madness and anyone who dies does not stay dead for long.
The movie is very low budget and the acting (especially from the Americans) is especially poor but overall the movie is very entertaining and very reminiscent of George A. Romero zombie movies with a bit of Re-Animator thrown in. There is plenty of gore, plenty of slow moving disfigured zombies with missing parts, a few sexy super zombie chicks and masses of gunfights. Definitely worth watching but for a zombie movie with a traditional Japanese feel you should watch Stacy.
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