Well Go USA announces ‘Samurai Princess’ DVD

The latest action gore fest from Japan is coming to North America courtesy of Well Go USA. The distrib has announced that SAMURAI PRINCESS will be arriving on DVD November 10 with an English dub included. The mondo macabre actioner is directed by Kengo Kaji, writer of TOKYO GORE POLICE, with make-up effects from Yoshihiro Nishimura (MACHINE GIRL) and visual effects supervised by Tsuyoshi Kazuno (CHANBARA BEAUTY).

SAMURAI PRINCESS takes place sometime, somewhere in an alternate universe version of feudal Japan, where people live together with highly developed mechanical dolls. However, excessively developed mechanical dolls start causing harm to the human society, leading to ghastly bloodsheds happening all over the place.

Under the circumstances, Kyoraku, a mad scientist, creates a female ninja mechanical doll. Equipped with 11 types of built-in weapons, the ninja doll is infused with the souls of eleven of her fallen sisters and she uses their combined power to take down anyone who stands in the way. The ninja doll will not die even if she is slashed by a sword or shot by a gun she is virtually indestructible on her quest to save humanity.

Japanese porn star Aino Kishi portrays the fighting lead with rather unconventional weaponry that includes scissor and chainsaw extensions for her legs and boobs that turn into grenades. If something like this had been conceived of any place other than Japan I might have been surprised, perhaps even a little shocked.