{"id":4573,"date":"2009-10-11T09:46:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T22:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=4573"},"modified":"2009-10-11T09:56:15","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T22:56:15","slug":"assault-girls-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/11\/assault-girls-shine\/","title":{"rendered":"Assault Girls Shine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/assault-girls-poster.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4578 aligncenter\" title=\"assault-girls-poster\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/assault-girls-poster.jpg\" alt=\"assault-girls-poster\" width=\"461\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/assault-girls-poster.jpg 862w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/assault-girls-poster-300x148.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The newly released official trailer for <em><strong>Assault Girls<\/strong><\/em> [aka Asaruto g\u00e2ruzu] (Japan-2009; dir. Mamoru Oshii) represents a massive upgrade on even the great potential <a href=\"http:\/\/undeadbrainspasm.blogspot.com\/search?q=assault+girls\" target=\"_blank\">we&#8217;ve seen before<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.nipponcinema.com\/v2\/play.swf?config=http:\/\/www.nipponcinema.com\/cfg\/assault-girls-trailer\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nipponcinema.com\/v2\/play.swf?config=http:\/\/www.nipponcinema.com\/cfg\/assault-girls-trailer\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the aftermath of global thermonuclear war, the Earth\u2019s surface has been turned into a desert battlefield. Three beautiful female hunters &#8212; Gray (Meisa Kuroki), Lucifer (Rinko Kikuchi), and Colonel (Hinako Saeki) &#8212; traverse the barren landscape armed with powerful assault rifles to fight a group of deadly sand-dwelling monsters called <em>sunakujira<\/em> (sand whales). When the the epic battle eventually seems to be coming to an end, the sparkle of muzzle flash dies down and an assault ship flies overhead. Suddenly, a gigantic super mutation called <em>Madara Sunakujira<\/em> attacks. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nipponcinema.com\/trailers\/assault-girls-trailer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nippon Cinema<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oshii is perhaps most famous for the hi-tech anti-cybernetic-terrorist anime <em>Ghost in the Shell<\/em> and the live-action VR scifi film <em>Avalon.<\/em> <em>Assault Girls<\/em> premieres in Japan on 19 December 2009.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sources<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/07\/24\/of-sand-whales-and-assault-girls\/\" target=\"_blank\">Undead Backbrain previous article<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nipponcinema.com\/trailers\/assault-girls-trailer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nippon Cinema<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quietearth.us\/articles\/2009\/10\/09\/Full-trailer-for-Mamoru-Oshiis-wormy-live-action-ASSAULT-GIRLS#extended\" target=\"_blank\">Quiet Earth<\/a> via Kaiju Search-Robot Avery; <a href=\"http:\/\/assault-girls.nifty.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Official website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly released official trailer for Assault Girls [aka Asaruto g\u00e2ruzu] (Japan-2009; dir. Mamoru Oshii) represents a massive upgrade on even the great potential we&#8217;ve seen before: Synopsis: In the aftermath of global thermonuclear war, the Earth\u2019s surface has been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/11\/assault-girls-shine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,12,4,44,61,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4573"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4582,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions\/4582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}