How about a bikini-clad Japanese cowgirl using her phenomenal skills with the katana blade to deal with a horde of flesh-eating zombies? Would that scenario have legs at the box-office? Oh, yes.
It’s apparent based on an understandably popular video game — and, yes, she has a cute younger sister and a female buddy who all lend a hand.
Onechanbara [lit. Big Sister Chanbara] (Japan-2008; dir. Yohei Fukuda]
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Cool movie with decent action considering it is low budget. In a perfect world, I’d have taken the girl from CYBORG GIRL or AZUMI as the lead, but oh well. Its all good.
I just watched it myself, Jeff, on a HK DVD with badly typed subtitles. Still, the picture quality was fine — and I thoroughly enjoyed the film. It is something the Japanese are good at — a sort of live-action anime style.