is a 2006 Japanese

zombie comedy Zombie comedy, often called zom com or zomedy, is a film genre that aims to blend zombie horror motifs with slapstick comedy as well as morbid humor. History The earliest roots of the genre can be found in Jean Yarbrough's '' King of the Zom ...

directed by Naoyuki Tomomatsu, written by Naoyuki Tomomatsu and Masami Teranishi, and starring Miyû Watase, Mihiro, Kenji Arai, Yû Machimura, Masayuki Hase, and Norman England. Mihiro plays a spoiled pop singer who barricades herself in a hotel with several soldiers during a zombie outbreak.

Plot

On a routine training exercise, soldiers from the Japan Self-Defense Forces encounter a UFO that releases strange radiation on a town. When the inhabitants turn into zombies, the soldiers and several survivors, including a spoiled pop singer, barricade themselves in a hotel and attempt to survive the assault.

Cast

* Miyû Watase as Yuri Aso * Mihiro as Hitomi * Kenji Arai as Captain * Yû Machimura * Masayuki Hase * Norman England (director), Norman England * Jun Yamasaki as Hayakawa

Release

''Zombie Self-Defense Force'' premiered at Dead by Dawn (film festival), Dead by Dawn in Edinburgh on April 23, 2006. It was released on DVD in Japan on April 25, 2006. ADV Films released it in the United States on October 13, 2009.

Reception

Rodney Perkins of Twitch Film called it an uneven splatter film made in the style of ''Evil Dead II'' and ''Braindead (film), Braindead''. Bill Gibron of DVD Talk rated it 3.5/5 stars and called it "a bucket full of bile topped off with a crazy comedic take on cannibalism" that is "meant to be stupid and weird and eccentric". David Johnson of DVD Verdict wrote that although it equals ''Braindead'' in gore, it is not as well-executed. Writing in ''The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia'', academic Peter Dendle called it "a series of cheap homages and shock scenes delivered with underfunded cartoon aesthetics."

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 0879265 2006 films 2006 horror films 2000s Japanese films Japanese comedy horror films Japanese independent films Japanese splatter films Japanese zombie films Zombie comedy films