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Junk Director: Atsushi Muroga Number of Items: 1 Format: Color, Widescreen Audience Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes Studio: Ventura Distribution Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2003-04-29 Buy from Amazon

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 12 Average rating: 3.0 "Um...no." I bought this DVD because I enjoy Japanese cinema - stuff by Takashi Miike, you know the drill. This movie has terrible acting, bad make-up and gore effects, and is almost completely worthless. It's stupid, and almost painful to watch. I figured with being made in 1999 - and released in 2003, it would be relatively up-to-date with it's filming and effects - but it looks like a heaping pile of B-Trash from the early 70s. You can't pay me enough to watch it again. All of you other people who gave this movie high marks must be happily living in the past - or you haven't seen a new movie in over 30 years. To put it short, Junk is junk - and the only thing it's good for was making my small DVD collection look a little bit bigger. "Silly Eric Deitrich" I'm not sure what you have against Japanese culture, but at least one of your accusations struck me as particularly funny. Quentin Tarantino's favorite movies (and books) are all japanese. In fact, he is great friends with several of Japan's contemporary filmmakers, such as the minds behind the hit "Battle Royale". Japan is actually one of HIS biggest influences. He is not a pioneer when it comes to blood and guts, to be sure, but even his episodic structure and ""pulp fiction style have been seen before. That said, I love tarantino. I think he's up there with raimi and burton. Sorry that i took up all that space with that explanation. In other news, you should find a copy of Junk on DVD and watch it. Give it a try, japanese zombies rock. But I prefer Versus. "I liked this movie better when it was called Zombi 2!" I saw this movie about a year ago and could not believe how terrible it was. For those of you you have seen Fulci's Zombie Flesh Eaters you will no doubt experience deja vu. I actually predicted what shot's were going to come next and hadn't even seen the movie. There are scenes that are literally shot by shot recreations of Fulci's. This movie was so terrible it made me want to kick myself in the face for watching it. It's a good thing i didn't pay to rent it or i might have commited suicide. "Much better than expected" I had pretty low expectations of this film before watching it. Rarely is Junk mentioned in the same class and given the same amount of admiration as Wild Zero or Versus, other recent Japanese Zombie films. Junk was released prior to the aforementioned two other films and spearheaded the new wave of Japanese zombie films of the new millennia. I was expecting this film to be cheap-looking and boring but instead Junk turned out to be a wildly fun and inventive stab at the zombie genre. 3 men and a woman agree to pull a heist on behalf of the Yakuza by robbing a jewellery store. In exchange for the jewellery the yakuza promise a hefty sum of cash. The meeting point is set at a remote former military site about an hour's drive outside of town. The robbers arrive at the base and while waiting for the Yakuza walk around and find out that it may not be as deserted as they originally thought, as they stumble upon a lab containing various chemicals and a room containing a number of bodies lying on the floor, wrapped in white sheets. Unbeknownst to them, the military base has for some time been the site of a project by the name of DNX that has as a goal of bringing back the dead to life. As the dead rise, the robbers and the Yakuza's struggle to stay alive begins. Junk borrows elements from so many other zombie films that it's hard to keep a track of, the most obvious influences in particular being Fulci's Zombie, Re-animator and Return of the living dead. The zombies bear a striking resemblance to Romero's, with their bluish skin and slow limping shuffle. They die the exactly the same way, through a gunshot wound to the head. In other ways however, the film is quite unique within the zombie genre, a combination undead film and high-octane Asian action shoot-em-up. Zombies and the Yakuza make for an entertaining mix. I also liked the idea of a "head zombie", who is not dumb like the others but instead acts as a brain for all of the undead, able to de-activate bombs and outsmart the U.S. military. This head zombie is not a ghoul of rotting flesh like the others but a beautiful clear-skinned Japanese woman who spends most of her time prancing around naked on screen and taunting her former husband, the scientist behind the DNX project who brought her back to life. Most entertaining of all is a battle between the head zombie and the female robber, a climactic show-down between two beautiful asian women with scores to settle. The action is unrelenting in this film, a stable of Asian cinema. Junk doesn't overstay its welcome the way the 120-minute Versus does, instead delivering a brisk 83-minute package of gun-toting gangster action and zombie gore. Highly underrated but highly recommended. "3.5 stars- Best Japanese Zombie flick I seen !!!!!" Any true Zombie fan i think would enjoy this film as i thought was an excellent movie and a movie that I will watch plenty of more times and worth the money. Let me start of first by saying that this movie was influenced by Zombi 1980( Lucio Fulci ) and Re-Animator 1985. Well somewhat a bite off. The reason being is the Zombies are created, well brought back to life by a injection of a green liquid ( same as Re-Animator ) and also 2 other scenes where the zombies are eating people, well feasting on them were a bit off of Fulci. If you seen the Fulci film ( Zombi 2 ) the you will know what im talking about. The end scene is also a bite off of Fulci's Zombi, by showing a rotting corpse at the end with worms in his eye, just like the Fulci Zombi. But thats a heads up so there is no dissapointment if and when seen. Now to the movie it's self. The plot is very original, as I wont get into details because you can read other posts that will give you overall outlook. I was very shocked for the good and very impressed. This movie I brought was in sub title it was not dubbed to english. If you are a fan of Zombie cinema as i am you will be very staisfied with it, besides the bit off scenes the plot is very original so that makes up for it. Yes, it is bloody and gory which is a plus along with non-stop action like most films. Out of all the Zombie movies I have seen out of Japan ( Stacy, WildZero, versus and Junk ) by far Junk is the best of them all. Junk seems to be more of an American Zombie movie than anything, though there is a bit of Japanese style zombie which from the movies I have seen are more like human/Zombie completley dead but still can act like Humans in a sense ( there is only 2 of them ). Versus is an excellent movie more of a Japanese Zombie flick with out a doubt, but is an excellent movie, but please I advie to not byu the directors cut/uncut or whatever version as it is extended about 25 minutes more than it should have, still an excellent movie but just extended to long which kind of kills the movie and makes you tired cause it didnt end when it should have. Still it is worth it to have if you are a true fan of Zombie/japanese cinema. I found a spot out near me in a mall where this guy has a good 200 plus japanese movies basically all horror and animation and all original copies sells them for $20 but I get them for $15, which is cool. Better than spending what they want here on Amazon or anywhere else. So far I have brought Junk and Versus, next Im looking to buy the movie Audition ( which is like a slasher film form what I hear ) and a sci-fi one called ALIVE both Japanese cinema, Im not big on them but i saw some clips and it looked pretty solid though i will read more reviews b4 I buy anything. If there is anyone in the NY area who is interested in knowing where you could get these Japanese movies at my E-Mail is HorrorFan4588@aol.com. Please state in the subject title what you are writing about if not I will not open the mail.