It shouldn't be a surprise to you that this movie is bizarre, gory and perverse and for adults and genre-fans only. The title is obvious enough and anybody who disliked this movie can't tell me that he didn't know what to expect from this weird b-movie.''Tokyo Gore Police'' takes places in a dystopian future where the Tokyo Police Force has been privatized and recalls elements of a radical paramilitary organization. The organization fights so-called ''Engineers'' which are monstrous humans that sprout bizarre weapons from an injury. A superb Eihi Shiina, most known for her stunning debut in Takashi Miike's ''Audition'', incarnates a lonesome police officer with Borderline personality disorder who fights these creatures and tries to identify the crazy scientist that first created the ''Engineers''.While the story seems to be simplistic at first sight, it's not as shallow as it seems. Over the course of the movie, we get to know the background story of the police officer who had a mentally deranged mother and whose father was a proud police officer who was killed by a hit-man. The background story of the crazy scientist as well as the reasons for the existence of the radical paramilitary organization are also explained step by step and lead to a brutal showdown.This movie is filled with hilarious ideas and memorable scenes. Among the transformed monsters, we can see female sex slaves whose arms and legs have been replaced by swords or machine guns for example. The most deranging scene is probably the part that takes place in a decadent strip club where a police officer gets tortured by a prostitute whose lower body parts change into the upper body part of an alligator.We also get to see some social criticism in this movie. The main plot is sometimes interrupted with short television advertisements that promote self-harm and similar decadent behaviours in a humorous way. These clips criticize dangerous and weird trends in our society.You can enjoy this movie as the abnormally nasty horror flick that it is or as some bitter social criticism in a most dystopian world. It's your choice whether you simply want to be emotionally entertained or intellectually instructed by this film while a mixture of both is probably the most recommended manner to approach this unusual production. No matter what your choice is, please be aware that the content of this film is highly disturbing for those who aren't familiar with the gore genre or experimental Japanese cinema.

One star of five; three black holes (opposite of stars) for cinematography, special effects, and acting.Cinematography: 2/10 Often dark with insufficient contrast and soft focus. Framing mistakes, jumpy camera work. Panning with blur. Blood on the lens, too many times. The blood here is Texas Longhorn orange; that is, not very red. Yellow and orange filters applied for no apparent reason.Sound: 2/10 Weak. The incidental music is often amateurish in composition, poor in quality, and hollow sounding. At times it seems the actors are not miked properly. There was a significant number of lines spoken in Japanese that had no related English subtitles. This did not help following the plot.Acting: 2/10 There are too many actors with total lack of affect: stone faced and silent without much body English. The protagonist is the prime example. Also, her fight movements are often out of sync by one to five seconds, as if reacting to off-camera cues.Screenplay: 3/10 Gallons of blood sprayed, followed by zero landing on actors' clothes. This repeated a dozen times or so. Acquaintance with the laws of physics and logic is out the window. Given that, we're down to special effects and character motivation. The FX were really bad, so motivation would have to drive the plot. Motivation is fairly well lost as well. One segment goes to another with little or no explanation. The plot is more of an archipelago than a road from here to there.Special Effects: 2/10 Cheesy blood spatter. Enough blood to float small boats. Badly done fake chopped off body parts. Blood pipes made obvious when a limb or neck or finger is sliced off.

Aren't Japanese people the best at making bizarre movies? You know, they can take an idea totally lame and senseless like "a Japanese pro-wrestler who transforms into a squid before he dies so he can fight again and go back with his girlfriend" and turn it in one of my favorite movies ever ("Calamari Wrestler"), but this... is not the case. Now, I have seen a lot of Japanese crap, and I love most of it, my favorite gore one is "Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl", which is original, funny, senseless, with cheap effects and a lot of energy put into it; Tokyo Gore Police fails at all of those things, one thing is doing a gore movie with a plot always developing, and another thing is doing a gore movie with random blood at screen for a ridiculous amount of time, the plot stops suddenly for more than 10 minutes to show random flashbacks that don't make sense, violence sequences that can last less than a minute but instead they last more than 5, characters that suddenly appear, you don't know who they're and "oh, he is dead. Maybe I would be touched in some way if he had any character development at all". To sum up this movie is bad, REALLY BAD, and is the only Japanese bizarre movie that I gave less than 5 stars, avoid this one if you can and watch something else.

As a fan of Japanese cinema i had to check out Tokyo gore police,it is on google video in all its gory,but dubbed into English which is OK.from the moment it starts there's blood splattering action.it is kind of like robocop meets blade runner meets shogun assassin,yes all rolled into one,a young woman police officer is out to find the fiend that killed her policeman father,there are obstacles in the form of genetic mutants called engineers that have freakish powers,this is non stop action from japan,probably one of the goriest movies ever made.its comic book like in design and very original.i think the Japanese version is also on google.i really enjoyed Tokyo gore police,i give this gem 10 out of 10.