Demeking is here!

So today Demeking: The Sea Monster [aka Demekingu; Space Monster Demeking] (Japan-2009; dir. Kôtarô Terauchi) hits DVD in the US.

Synopsis:

In 1969, a young man finds an anonymous letter in a glass bottle which describes the apocalyptic arrival of a cosmic monster known as Demeking. Since then, he has physically prepared himself in a lone struggle for that fateful day when the monster will arrive. 

In case you haven't been paying attention and want to know what the monster Demeking looks like, well, he's a sort of undersea/space Gastropod -- a snail-like monstrosity with eyes on stalks and what looks a bit like coral vents on his back.

Here he is from a distance and direct from the movie:

Here are models of him -- puppets used as part of the SFX collateral:

Finally, a Demeking toy:

Cute, eh?

Information on Demeking from Undead Backbrain and Undead Brainspasm:

• Demeking Plummets to Earth
• Demeking Additions
• Update: Demeking on DVD
• Demeking Pictorial Update

Source: Various via Avery. Wriiten by Robert Hood

Update: Demeking on DVD

The enigmatic daikaiju eiga Demekingu (Japan-2009; dir. Kôtarô Terauchi) -- based on the popular manga by Takashi Imashiro -- will be released on DVD in the West (in Japanese with subtitles) on 12th October by Cinema Epoch. The title, you'll notice, has been rendered as Demeking: The Sea Monster -- even though the kaiju comes, in fact, from space.

Click on the image below to get a large view.

Full Trailer:

• Source: DreadCentral via Avery
• Amazon link
• Undead Backbrain articles: "Demeking Plummets to Earth!" and "Demeking Additons".
• See also this previous Brainspasm update.

More Images from Assault Girls

TwitchFilm has dug up some new images from Assault Girls [aka Asaruto gâruzu] (Japan-2009; dir. Mamoru Oshii) -- the Ghost in the Shell director's first live-action film since the excellent Avalon.

 

 

 

 

There's plenty more on the Twitch site.

Previous Undead Backbrain article.

Thanks, Avery.

Human / Machine Gun Hybrid...

I love the Japanese...



The Machine Girl [aka Kataude mashin gâru] (Japan-2008; dir. Noboru Iguchi)

Swords, Chicks and Zombies... Again

A sequel to Onechanbara: The Movie [aka Chanbara Beauty] (Japan-2008; dir. Yôhei Fukuda) has been announced. It's called Onechanbara: Vortex. Aya's back (though with a different actress, I think) -- a cowgirl-themed, bikini-clab samurai who hunts zombies in a world suffering through a post-zombie apocalyptic stage of Earth history.

Below a teaser trailer:

• Source: Twitch via Kaiju Search-Robot Avery
  
• Undead Backbrain review of Onechanbara
• Official website

A Touch of G

Some pics from the kaiju film G (Japan-2007; [48 min.]; dir. Kiyotaka Taguchi), which we highlighted on Undead Backbrain last July.

The film was made by the director of the recent release Chohatsu Daikaiju Gehara [Long-haired Giant Monster Gehara], which can be viewed in its entirety here.

Hopefully G will come to DVD (or a download site) one of these days. It looks great.

• Source: yubarifanta.com via Avery

Weird Japanese Zombies: Tokyo Zombie

Just released in Australia on DVD (through Madman Entertainment) is this piece of Nipponese weirdness:

Tokyo Zombie [aka Tôkyô zonbi] (Japan-2005; dir. Sakichi Satô)

Synopsis:

Looming over a future Tokyo is "Black Fuji" – a massive stinking mountain of garbage and a popular place to dump anything from toasters to dead bodies. However, something within the toxic mountain is bringing the dead back to life and infusing them with an insatiable hunger for human flesh!

Nearby at a fire extinguisher factory, two bored employees practice jujitsu while their boss is away. With enough practice, one of them reckons he can train the other to be a world champion. And certainly what better way to practice their martial arts – on the unleashed hordes of the undead!

Trailer:



Source: Madman Entertainment