“The year was 20XX. The D3 corporation has just completed its human resuscitation project. At the same time, there was an outbreak of mysterious zombies. The zombies ran rampant, and they started hunting humans as well. The humans who were attacked were later turned into zombies. The food, clothes and necessities of life were taken from them, even brothers who share the same blood started killing each other. It was as if the world had been swallowed into chaos.”
It got licensed under the name: Oneechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad under Tokyo Shock. But still, this is an awesome movie that no one could miss.
The Oneechanbara movie was based off D3 Publisher’s Oneechanbara video game series. It’s an action game in which Aya, the protagonist, fights unknown number of zombies and wide range of monster bosses. Aya wields a katana and dressed up in a bikini with a scarf and a cowboy hat.
In the movie, Aya (played by Eri Otoguro) along with her friend Katsuji (Tomohiro Waki) are both looking for their respective little sisters. The two were later joined by Reiko (Manami Hashimoto), a gunsliger girl who kills zombies with his shotgun that has unlimited bullets. ^_^ She’s looking for Dr. Sugita (Taro Suwa) who experimented and created zombies in search for eternal life, and surpass God himself.
Dr. Sugita needs the Imichi blood along with his formula to bring the dead back to life, as zombies. It’s a blood that’s shared by Aya and Saki who both belong in the Imichi clan. He was the one taking care of Saki (Chise Nakamura), and using her blood in his projects. Saki is Aya’s little sister whom Dr. Sugita orphaned after Aya was chosen as their clan leader. She was urged by him that in order to take revenge, she must kill her father. The murder of her father was seen by Aya. This is the reason why Aya is looking for her.
As the story progresses, they met Maria (Hazuki Ai) in an abandoned warehouse. Maria’s background is not revealed and only have a few to no dialogues at all. Missing her dead daughter, Reiko acts as a mother to her. She was later hostaged by Saki and left wounded. She was taken to an abandoned hospital for treatment but she turned out a zombie aswell. Reiko left behind with Maria while Aya and Katsuji went to confront Dr. Sugita.
The climax of the movie started with the final confrontation of Dr. Sugita and Aya. But Aya was backed out by a horde of zombies while the doctor flees. Reiko arrives to help Aya, revealing that she killed Maria the same way sh killed her daughter. But her unlimited ammo shotgun didn’t help her survive the horde of zombies and later died. This causes Aya to build up her rage and do a special attack known as “Tornado Slash“.
Meanwhile Katsuji ended up in Dr Sugita’s laboratory and later killing him. Saki later comes to Aya and the final battle started.
Sisters battle it out to proove to one another on who is the strongest and who is the real leader of the Imichi clan. On their battle, Aya manages to use her red aura (like Naruto), and stabbed Saki. But to Aya’s surprise, Saki manages to recover and injected Dr. Sugita’s formula on herself which certainly made her stronger. With this, Saki manages to also use her aura, a blue one (like Sasuke). Both women fights in extreme speed. And after a big slash, Saki collapses in the ground. She died in the arms of Aya calling her “oneechan (sister).”
Aya and Katsuji both buried Saki and Reiko’s body. But instead of leaving Saki’s sword behind, like what they have done on Reiko’s shotgun, Aya brings it. In a short epilogue on the movie, Aya is seen slashing zombies using two sword hand style (nitouryu).
The Review
Being a low budget movie doesn’t hinder Oneechanbara on making good quality scenes that could match any game adaptation movies. The acting is pretty cool considering Eri Otoguro a gravure idol. But come to think of it, Aya rarely speaks so her acting is more prominent.
Considering the movie as a gore, there’s little to minimal gore at all in the movie, unlike the Oneechanbara VorteX movie. So you can be safe from having a feeling of your stomach turning upsidedown. LOL. That’s why as much as possible, I don’t want to watch gore movies. XD
Overall, I can rate the move 4 stars over 5. Why? Because there’s some questions left unanswered, like “why is Aya only wearing a bikini and cowboy hat?”, “why is Reiko’s shotgun have unlimited ammunition (did she used a cheat ^^)?”, and Maria’s back story.
Reposted from: JEFusion | Oneechanabra Movie Review
