Home / Images /This ‘Dead Sushi’ Still Has A Taste For Flesh It was announced yesterday that Walker Pictures and Nishimura Eizo’s Dead Sushi, the latest horror/comedy from acclaimed Japanese director Noboru Iguchi, will World Premiere at Montreal’s prestigious Fantasia International Film Festival on July 22nd, followed shortly thereafter by its Asian Premiere at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan). While the above link has a taste of the madness, we’ve landed one helluva cool new still. Iguchi, best-known for his high-octane 2008 action/comedy The Machine Girl, has become an international sensation with jaw-dropping, boundary-pushing films such as RoboGeisha, Karate-Robo Zaborgar, and Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead. “The film, which stars 21-year-old martial arts prodigy Rina Takeda, tells the tale of Keiko, the daughter of a legendary sushi chef, who runs away from home when his kung fu-like regimen becomes too severe. Finding work at a rural hot springs inn, she is ridiculed by the eccentric staff and guests, including the employees of a pharmaceutical firm there on a work vacation.

But little do they know that a disgruntled former researcher has also come to the inn with a plan for revenge, using a serum he developed that can awaken the murderous instincts of ordinary sushi, turning it into bloodthirsty monsters! how to eat sushi using chopsticksKeiko must use both her sushi training and her martial arts skills to save the others and defeat the flying killers.“sushi mania online game Following the eclectic style of the director’s previous work, Dead Sushi is a tasty mix of action, comedy, and splatter as only Iguchi can do. sushi in singapore halalWith special effects by Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police) and appearances from The Machine Girl and Sukeban Boy’s Kentaro Shimazu, Asami, and Demo Tanaka, this lethal sushi is well worth a nibble!order sushi online southampton

Learn more about Noboru Iguchi’s film at the official website or Facebook. This announcement somehow managed to slip through the cracks here at ScreenAnarchy Towers, but news that a new Noboru Iguchi film will be having its world premiere at one of our very favourite film festivals simply cannot pass without comment - even if it is a day or two later than originally planned. sushi in japanese translationDead Sushi, the latest slice of late night bizarro mayhem from the insanely talented director of films like The Machine Girl, Robogeisha and Karate-Robo Zaborgar, will debut on 22nd July at Montreal's prestigious Fantasia International Film Festival, before heading south to Puchon, South Korea for its Asian premiere at PiFan on 26th July.Zombie Ass: Toilet of the DeadHigh-Kick GirlDead Sushiyo sushi online delivery

Do you feel this content is inappropriate or infringes upon your rights? Click here to report it.Those of you who follow me on Google+, facebook or twitter might have seen this neat little video:sushi club reservas on line Yeah, it freaked me out, too. But this little cephalopod isn't actually alive - he's justA similar phenomenon can be seen in these frog legs: How are these dead body parts being brought back to life? These clever cooks are capitalizing on biology to put on a show. The key is that the muscle has to be fresh - very, very fresh. So fresh, in fact, that its neurons are still completely in tact and ready to fire. All cells are polarized, which means the concentrations of charged atoms, called ions, of the fluid inside them is different from the fluid outside them. It is this difference in ion concentrations that creates a difference in charge (or voltage) across membrane.

This difference - called a membrane potential - allows neurons to work. Neurons are highly specialized cells which process and transmit electrical signals. When not activated, neurons maintain their membrane potential by actively pumping out sodium ions and pumping in potassium ions, keeping a voltage difference of roughly -70 milivolts. When a neuron is activated, however, specific channels open that allows sodium ions to flood in. This rapid change in the charge difference causes potassium channels to open, allowing potassium to flow out. At a certain point, the channels all close, and those active pumps work towards restoring the resting membrane potential - but not before triggering channels nearby to open. That's how the signal moves from one end of the neuron to the other - channels open in one area, which causes channels nearby to open, and so on and so forth from one end to the other: When a creature dies, its neurons don't stop working right away. So long as there is still enough energy around to maintain that membrane potential, the neurons will work.

What you might have noticed is that in the case of the dancing dead, the cooks have added one key ingredient: salt (soy sauce is very salty). Salt - or sodium chloride - is chock full of sodium ions. This overwhelming dose of sodium ions is enough to trigger the still-working neurons into firing, signalling the muscles to contract. So there you have it - take freshly killed muscle, add salt, and voila! - the dead shall rise again. While up in Montreal for the Fantasia International Film Festival, I made it a point to try and catch up with the imaginative mind of one of Japan’s low budget splatter film masters, Norboru Iguchi (RoboGeisha, The Machine Girl, Karate-Robo Zaborgar).  One of his two films that screened at the festival was the world premiere of his latest zany endeavor, Dead Sushi, a wildly fun flick about sushi coming to life via a zombie-like virus and killing people (read my review here).  The day after the world premiere, I had an opportunity to sit down with director Iguchi and star Rina Takeda to talk about some of the challenges, fighting fake sushi, weird kisses and their latest projects.

Alex: When you come up with ideas that are as crazy as yours, how do you determine if it’s something worth developing? Noboru Iguchi: I’m always concerned about the budget. For Dead Sushi we didn’t have any money for the film and so I thought making films with a low budget was more impactful and I also wanted to make a film that nobody had seen before.  Nobody had really made a movie about food attacking humans.  Nobody had seen sushi and tempura, which is very popular all over the world, attacking humans so I thought this was a good idea to develop. Alex: You two had worked together on Ancient Dogoo Girl, what made her [Rina] the perfect Kieko? Noboru: Before she played a character that was strong and cool but she in reality she is actually a bright and cheerful girl and so I wanted to make sure she was playing a character that was closer to her real personality.  Of all the roles she has done to date, Keiko is closest to her personality so I thought that would make her perfect for the role.

Alex: So then Rina, had you seen his other films before you said yes to Dead Sushi? Rina Takeda: Ahh, yes.  I saw Karate Robo Zaborgar,Machine Girl, and Ancient Dogoo Girl, the Japanese TV drama that Iguchi did which I saw after it was posted on YouTube. Alex: Why did you say yes to this role? Rina: I had worked with Iguchi before and was interested in his films.  I also wanted to be challenged with a different character. Alex: What was it like fighting flying sushi? Rina: I was a little scared.  More scared than fighting against the humans. Alex: Did you ever imagine you would fight a giant Tuna and live to tell the tale? Alex: So I have to ask about the special Japanese Kiss, the egg kiss [laughs].  Did you try it before you had Asami do it? Noboru: Ahh, no, no, no.  it was nothing like that! The image comes from director Juzo Itami’s film TAMPOPO, which is kind of famous overseas, since it’s a movie about gourmets. It starred actor Koji Yakusho.

I originally used the scene in an indie film I directed which had two men doing the egg kiss, but I never did it myself. Alex: In terms of making the film, one of my favorite scenes was the first fight scene where you have the naked guy on the ground and he’s getting spun around and Rina’s fighting everyone?  Was that a tough scene to choreograph and did it take a long time to film that entire scene? Noboru: It took 1 ½ days to shoot.  You know, we shot this film in 10 days and we shot the fight scene in a day and a half so this scene took the most time.  So because it took that long, the guy who was naked in the scene was naked for almost the entire time, so he felt embarrassed. Alex: You’re [Rina] a karate champion and had a lot of cool fights in the movie, did you hurt a lot of people while you were shooting the film or were you very careful while you were fighting people?  Were there any accidents? Rina: We never felt in danger fighting on the set so there were no issues fighting with each other but it was so cold on set that we were more concerned with fighting the cold weather [laughs].

Noboru: The hardest scene was the final fight scenes at the end because we shot at 7 am and it was very cold and we were very sleepy [laughs] so it was really hard. Alex: As a writer and director of these really, really crazy films do you have any limits or boundaries? Noboru: My imagination has no limit and I’ve got even crazier ideas but I’m worried about finding someone who would produce it and if there is an audience for it.  But no, there is no limit to my imagination. This is a family movie not a crazy movie! Alex: Now for my last question, now that Dead Sushi has finally premiered what do you have next in the pipeline?  What are your next films? Iguchi:  I joined the project ABC’s of Death and made a short film for it so we are just waiting for release. I’m really looking forward for everyone to see my segment in the film.  I have another project that’s progressing right now and it’s a more normal girl and guy love story.  At the same time I will be making crazy films and have another one in the works but we need to find a company that will finance it.