Shy Japanese school girl Yoshie survives a near fatal blow to the head. After undergoing extensive training and receiving a few modifications to her body, Yoshie decides to get revenge on the heinous criminals who murdered her friend Ami and left her for dead. I really liked "Machine Girl", but this short was too ridiculous to enjoy. Somebody must have had some money left over after the main feature was in the can, and wanted to give his girlfriend a little more exposure.<br/><br/>I would be lying if I said that I didn't enjoy much of Yoshie's training, and her peppy dances, but the plot(?), writing(?) and acting(?) ruined it for me. I would rather have seen a short in which Yoshie was saved from death, and trained to become a good basketball player, in Ami's honor. Or beach volleyball player … that would have worked, too.<br/><br/>If you watch this, do yourself a favor: ignore the story, and focus on the visuals, if you know what I mean … and I think you do. "The Hajirai Machine Girl" or "Shyness Machine Girl" is a Japanese 22-minute live action short film from 2009, so this one will have its 10th anniversary two years from now. The writer and director is Noboru Iguchi and this one here is directly connected to "Kataude mashin gâru", his most known work perhaps, as several characters from the full feature film show up here too. One of them would be the central character who apparently was the protagonist's best friend and she takes on her job now as a gun-firing killer assassin. After some training of course, training that is packed with (not very) subtle explicit references. Yeah you could absolutely call this film a sex comedy from start to finish and the fact that she has a machine gun installed to her butt is just one of the less explicit references. I am not sure if this was a good watch, don't think so, but it definitely has some guilty pleasure trash potential, which is why I would say this is even an underseen film. And yes it sure was embarrassing somehow how she talked about being embarrassed and that resulted in her bringing the big guns (no pun intended). From some weird perspective, it actually is a sexy and funny film, but you need to be a bit f*cked up to see it as such I guess. A good film it is certainly not, in terms of production values. I give it a thumbs-down all in all.
The Shyness Machine Girl is one of the best or scariest Japanese horror movie that I watch for this past few years. There a lot of scary scene that my wife is hitting me in the arm everytime there was a jump scare on the movies. I will definitely not watch this movie again with my wife LOL! To calm down a bit I played the akinator game on my phone and start competing with the web genie. I also played gacha life and visit gacha club to check for other players online.
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