Junk: Shiryô-gari (2000)

Director:

Atsushi Muroga

Writer:

Atsushi Muroga (writer)

Release Date:

22 January 2000 (Japan)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Everybody fights

Plot:

A team of jewel-thieves fight for their lives in a zombie-infested factory.

Plot Keywords:

Scientist | Abandoned Factory | Yakuza | Person On Fire | Topless Woman

Cast

Nobuyuki Asano	...	Jun
Shû Ehara	...	Akira
Tate Gouta	...	Ramon
Yuji Kishimoto	...	Nakada
Miwa	...	Kyôko / Zombie Queen
Natsuki Ozawa
Kaori Shimamura	...	Saki
Koutarou Tanaka	...	Toraji
Deborah Joy Vinall	...	Sharon (as 'Debolar Joy Vinall')

Also Known As:

Junk (USA)

Runtime:

USA:83 min (uncut version)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese | English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Germany:18 | Japan:R-15 | UK:18

Company:

Japan Home Video (JHV)

Very entertaining Japanese zombie film.

After a robbery,a group of thieves meets up with the Yakuza at an old abandoned factory in order to exchange money and jewels.However unknown to them the factory was an old military facility which was working on reanimating the dead.And they succeeded,meaning the factory is loaded with bloodthirsty zombies."Junk" is slowly getting a minor cult following,because it has creepy,old-style zombies that are a combination of Romero/Fulci/O'Bannon's zombies.The gore is plentiful and the feel of the film is very reminiscent of the Italian gut-munchers of the late 1970/early 1980 period.The film doesn't take itself too seriously and is pretty silly at times.There is plenty of gory mayhem on display-lots of headshots,zombies biting parts of their victims and eating intestines etc."Junk" is extremely entertaining,so fans of Japanese horror or zombie cinema won't be disappointed.