Machine Girl Chronicles, The (Blu-ray) (Asian Cinema)

THE MACHINE GIRL: JACKED!– Ami is your average schoolgirl trying to provide a normal life for her younger brother and herself following the tragic death of their parents. But her whole world comes crashing down when her brother and his friend are brutally murdered by a ruthless gang of bullies headed by the spoiled brat son of a local yakuza boss! When Ami sets out to avenge her slain sibling, she soon finds herself over her head and minus a left arm! Bleeding profusely and barely alive after a vicious yakuza attack, Ami seeks shelter at an auto repair garage where two sympathetic mechanics take pity on her and help rehabilitate her. To aid her in her unrelenting quest for revenge, they fit her arm stump with a custom prosthetic arm that sports a high-powered rotary machine gun! Ami meets and teams up with the equally vengeful mom of her dead brother’s slain friend, and together they wage an unholy two-woman war against the yakuza’s deadliest hitmen and an army of lethal ninja assassins in the cinema’s greatest all-out apocalyptic bloodbath! Extras include behind-the-scenes footage and the trailer. This edition features the recent HD remastered edition with noticeable improvement in picture resolution. (97 mins.)

RISE OF THE MACHINE GIRLS– Sold off for body parts by their mother at a young age, Ami and her sister Yoshie perform as pop idols in a traveling circus freak show until they decide to put a stop to the Dharma clan’s black market organ harvesting scheme. When Yoshie is attacked and abducted by the buxom but deadly Battle-Bust Sisters, Dharma brutally amputates Ami’s arm, leaving her for dead– unconscious and profusely bleeding! With the help of professional hit-man-for-hire Matsukata, Ami is more determined than ever to get revenge! Meanwhile, Dharma has transformed her sister Yoshie into a cyborg programmed to kill! Soon, the clan conflict escalates into a hyper-violent bullets-and-blood ballet! Will Ami rescue her sister and restore her humanity? Extras include- behind-the-scenes, still gallery and trailers. (80 mins.)