Line #23 Film/RoboGeisha


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3	-> "'''Geisha is... Japanese girl. Geisha is... ''beautiful''. Geisha is... ''wild''. Geisha is... ''ROBOT''.'''"
4	-->-- The ''[=RoboGeisha=]'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyTFkrSUQ24 trailer]].
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6	''[=RoboGeisha=]'' is a Japanese splatter-horror/action/comedy film directed by Creator/NoboruIguchi. It stars Aya Higuchi as Yoshie, Hitomi Hasebe as Kikuyakko, and Takumi Saito as Hikaru Kageno. Originally released in Japanese theatres in 2009, it was later licensed for distribution in English by Creator/{{Funimation}}. See [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd James Rolfe]] review it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikyi7uU2E_I here]].
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8	''[=RoboGeisha=]'' is the story of two sisters: Kikuyakko "Kikue" Kagusa, a {{Geisha}} who is renowned for her beauty, and Yoshie Kagusa, who works as a servant in the same teahouse as Kikuyakko. Yoshie suffers near constant abuse at the hands of her elder sister, who derides her lack of grace and potential for becoming a Geisha at every opportunity. While Yoshie for the most part tries to take this treatment in stride, at times her rage boils over and manifests itself in almost-superhuman feats of strength.
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10	Their lives change when the young heir of the Kageno Steel Manufacturing corporation notices one of these feats, and forces the sisters to become part of his private army of geisha assassins. Accepting their fate, the sisters quickly rise through the ranks of the geisha corps, constantly replacing their human flesh with ever more deadly and bizarre mechanical body-parts and weaponry, each hoping to out-do the other in their ongoing rivalry.
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12	However, when Yoshie is given the order to eliminate the family members of the other girls that have been kidnapped and forced into servitude by the corporation, she has a change of heart. Vowing to bring down the company and its cadre of cybernetically enhanced assassins once and for all, she puts her nearly unmatched skills in the arts of death-dealing to use in an effort to avenge the lives the corporation has taken in its mad rise to power. This decision puts Yoshie on a path that will inevitably lead to a final confrontation with her now more-machine-than-human sister, and to uncovering the secrets of the men who have been pulling their strings all along.
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15	!!! ''[=TropoGeisha=]'':
16	%%* {{Action Girl}}s: Yoshie and Kikue, and, well, the entire geisha army.
17	%%* AlasPoorVillain: When [[spoiler:the Tengun]] are killed.
18	* AssShove: Shows up with the cybernetic [=AssSword=], which is exactly what it sounds like. Considering the rest of the film, it's surprising when the girls point out that using a sword protruding from your ass is not only embarrassing, but also really awkward to use. It doesn't stop them from having a sword fight around a conveniently placed stripper pole.
19	%%* BMovie
20	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Both played straight and subverted - [[spoiler:the most damage Yoshie gets to her face is having the skin of her cheekbone torn off, revealing her cyborg implants, and it doesn't look ''too'' bad, but poor Kikue has the skin on her face removed from the bridge of her nose down as part of her full transformation.]]
21	%%* BewareTheNiceOnes: Yoshie is a pretty nice person... until you push her too far.
22	* BlackComedy: In a level that would make Creator/{{Troma}} jealous. Sometimes it doesn't even require blood, such as the interrogation where every time a man is hit, sinking his head into his torso, it reemerges covered in undigested food.
23	* BladeBelowTheShoulder: One of the many hidden weapons in Yoshie's arsenal are a pair of retractable katanas that emerge from her armpits.
24	%%* BloodyHilarious
25	%%* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Kikuyakko, by the end of the film.]]
26	%%* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Kikuyakko, towards the end.]] Also the Tengun.
27	%%* TheBully: Kikuyakko starts out as one towards Yoshie.
28	%%* CallingYourAttacks: Happens often.
29	%%** "Wig napalm!"
30	%%** "Breast milk from hell!"
31	* '''{{CAMP}}''': Oh dear boy. The costumes include garish bikinis with weird masks, the robot implements are over-the-top and implemented with poor CGI, all the cast is hamming it up while delivering ridiculous lines...
32	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When confronted with a killer robot with a blade in its mouth, the victims aren't worried about getting ''killed'', only about getting ''cut.''
33	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Hikaru Kageno and his father Kenyama kidnap and force young women into becoming their personal assassins, attempt to murder anyone and everyone who gets in their way, and they ultimately desire to ''destroy Japan'' to achieve their goals.
34	%%* {{Dark Action Girl}}s: The Tengun.
35	%%* DirtyOldMan: Kanai has shades of this, notably during [[spoiler: his death.]]
36	%%--> This is paradise!
37	* EvilPlan: The Kageno's true goal is to [[spoiler:drop an atomic bomb into Mt. Fuji,]] which they believe will destroy Japan so that they can rebuild it in their own image.
38	%%* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
39	* EyeScream: When one of Yoshie's targets gets too fresh with her during her performance as a geisha, she responds by gouging his eyes out with a pair of fried shrimp.
40	* FacialHorror: Often, and usually, but not always, PlayedForLaughs. For instance, the very first scene has a man whose facial features are reduced to [[https://viceland-assets-cdn.vice.com/blogs/uk-film/files/2010/07/_rg60413-665x445.jpg a twisted hole]].
41	%%* GainaxEnding
42	* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: It started as one was a geisha, the other her beleaguered assistant. And then they were turned into cyborg assassins...
43	* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:After getting caught up in a suicide bomb blast intended as a trap, Yoshie is seen crawling away from the wreckage, minus her lower half.]]
44	%%* HandicappedBadass: There's a man in a wheelchair who has a gun in his knee.
45	%%* HaventYouSeenXBefore: "You've never seen a castle-shaped robot before?"
46	* HighPressureBlood: While this is present in nearly every battle ([[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank to exaggerated levels]]), perhaps the most bizarre example of this is when massive gouts of it can be seen erupting from ''damaged buildings''.
47	* HumongousMecha: [[spoiler:The final battle includes a giant castle robot that goes wrecking?]]
48	%%* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: [[spoiler:Yoshie towards [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Kikue]], during their final battle.]]
49	* ImprobableWeaponUser: Yoshie uses ''Fried Shrimp'' to gouge out someone's eyes.
50	%%* {{Jerkass}}: Kikuyakko, although later she is shown as more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
51	%%* JobTitle: Yoshie works as a geisha.
52	%%* LampshadeHanging: A lot, particularly in re the repeated use of NewPowersAsThePlotDemands.
53	%%-->'''YOSHIE''': "I never thought I'd be able to turn into a tank."
54	%%** The characters acknowledging the embarrassing nature of the [=AssSwords=] qualifies as well.
55	%%* LargeHam: Pretty much the entire cast.
56	* LegFocus: Yoshie and Kikue legs are highlighted by SailorFuku skirts and [[KickChick gratuitous high kicks]].
57	%%* MoodWhiplash: The overall fun, campy silliness is toned down a ''lot'' when it is revealed that [[spoiler:Hikaru sent Yoshie on a suicide mission. And [[ForcedToWatch forces Kikue to watch]].]]
58	%%* NightmareFetishist: Hikaru, if what he does to [[spoiler:Kikuyakko's exposed brain as he kisses her]] is anything to go by...
59	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Cyborg assassin geishas! There's a also a samurai robot at a certain point.
60	%%* OverlyLongGag: Some of the death scenes.
61	* RobotGirl: The Kagusa sisters, as well as the deranged members of Kageno Steel's elite "Goblin Corps". Although they're not fully robotic, only implemented with as many lethal mechanical enhancements as possible.
62	%%* {{Seppuku}}: An unfortunate geisha assassin recruit is ordered to kill herself by means of stabbing after she decides that she doesn't want to go through with the initiation and wants to leave.
63	* SiblingFusion: [[spoiler:Yoshie and Kikue combine into one being at the end, using their combined powers and weapons to defeat Hikaru and his giant castle robot.]]
64	* SpiritualSuccessor: It's fifth in an unofficial series preceded by ''Film/MeatballMachine'', ''Film/TheMachineGirl'', ''Film/TokyoGorePolice'', ''Film/VampireGirlVsFrankensteinGirl'', and succeeded by ''Film/MutantGirlsSquad''.
65	%%* {{Stripperiffic}}: The Tengun.
66	* TankGoodness: One geisha turns her lower half into a tank.
67	* ThirtySecondsOverTokyo: There is not a Japanese stereotype in existence that this movie does not portray. {{Yakuza}}, Geisha, Ninjas, Samurai, SailorFuku, {{Kaiju}}, {{Toku}}satsu, you name it.
68	%%* {{Toku}}
69	%%* TookALevelInBadass: Yoshie, naturally.
70	* TorpedoTits:
71	** Kikuyakko's first cybernetic upgrade is to have her right breast converted into a machine gun. Her left breast is turned into the trigger.
72	** The Tengun fire acidic breast milk from their boobs.
73	%%* TheUnintelligible: Kanai, except when he is talking about Kageno.
74	* WordSaladLyrics: The song played over the closing credits has lyrics that, translated into English, include such lines as "the snow in our breasts" and "lungfuls of the last vestiges of light."
75	%%* WorldOfBadass
76	* WorldOfHam: Not only the whole cast is overacting as hell, but all the imagery helps, between the weird costumes, gratuitous roboticization (ranging from implants such as anal shuriken shooters to [[spoiler:a castle becoming a Megazord of sorts]]), and ridiculous violence.

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