Call this one the low budget, futuristic sci-fi response to the huge budget historical fantasy Dororo. Noboru Iguchi's Machine Girl is slated to have its world premiere at the upcoming AFM and it's one that I'm certainly hoping to weasel my way in to while there. Here's a synopsis from Fango:
[Machine Girl] is about a teenager named Ami who sets out for revenge on a gang of bullies who tortured her little brother to death. She winds up losing an arm along the way, and replaces it with a high-powered gun [see the pre-production stills set above], à la Rose McGowan in Grindhouse. But she doesn’t stop at one limb; Ami continues to lose body parts and replac[e] them with more weapons.
Effects man Yoshihiro Nishimura had a hand in Yudai Yamaguchi's Meatball Machine and Sion Sono's Exte: Hair Extensions and Death Trance helmer Yuji Shimomura is on hand handling the action sequences. Iguchi's Sukeban Boy is a delirious piece of trashy fun and with the talent involved here I expect more of the same ...