Zombie Self-Defense Force
by fight good on Saturday, November 14th, 2009 | 1 Comment
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Studio: Adv Films Release Date: 10/13/2009 Run time: 76 minutes
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Zombie Self-Defense Force (Naoyuki Tomomatsu, 2006)
Zonbi Jieitai (aka Zombie Self-Defense Force) has a bang-up premise: how would something that suddenly turned people into zombies affect people going about their daily lives? Unfortunately, the execution doesn’t quite live up to the premise, but it’s not as bad as it could have been.
A spaceship crashes to Earth as the movie opens, but few people take notice. After all, they’re going about their business. There’s a model on a photo shoot in the woods, two inept yakuza attempting to kill a guy and dispose of the body, a poor hotel owner attempting to break up with his mistress in order to preserve his marriage. Then comes the spaceship, and the radiation from it (okay, I think it’s the radiation, maybe, who knows?) turns dead folks into zombies. This leads to some amusing moments. (The hair stylist on the photo shoot alone is worth watching this movie for.) Eventually, though, we find ourselves in something that looks like a zombie movie; a bunch of folks from these situations and a couple of others end up holed up at the hotel trying to fend off a horde of hungry zombies.
This one’s got a pretty low rating at IMDB, and to be honest, I have no idea why. If you’re not a fan of zombie movies (and yes, zombie movies,especially of the low budget variety, have gotten really meta over the past couple of decades), I can understand maybe not getting some of the in-jokes or wondering why this movie’s effects are really kind of crappy, but let’s face it, if you’re a zombie fan, you’ve seen a lot worse in the past couple of years. What really struck me about this one was the cleverness of the script, which really is kind of funny, even if it does cross the line into stereotype now and again (those two inept yakuza, as funny as they are, could be straight out of any dozen yakuza comedies from the past fifty years). Still, if you’re used to American horror films, the almost default setting of Asian films of this stripe, which are much more aware of character development, atmosphere, and organic progression in the plot makes this stand head and shoulders above a lot of what’s come out of America in the past decade or so. I really liked this one a great deal more than the average IMDB user, it seems, and definitely recommend it for zombie-movie fans. *** ½