RoboGeisha (2009) poster
2009 · action · comedy · horror · sci-fi

RoboGeisha

Directed by Noboru Iguchi1h 42m2009
ElsewhereIMDb5.33k
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • surreal
  • cold
  • funny
Movie DNA

Neutral, breathless, extreme action / comedy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Sisters Yoshie and Kikue are two Geisha who are abducted by a mysterious organization to be transformed into murderous cyborg assassins.

Our read · RoboGeisha (2009) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal action · comedy · horror entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want insane Japanese splatter comedy about geisha sisters turned killer cyborgs.

ends unsettlingyou’ll be fine aftera rollercoastergrips from the openattention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnuditygraphic violencegorebody horrorcringe humiliation

Skip it tonightSkip if over-the-top gore, sexual content, or absurd violence will gross you out.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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