When a new film is being made by the same group who gave us the camp hits Tokyo Gore Police and Machine Girl, the purchase of your ticket is like an informal contract that you are basically down with whatever is about to happen for the next feature-length amount of time. No matter what. However, even when the film is consciously cult, it should still have certain responsibilities, foremost keeping you entertained. Does this little taste of culture trash succeed or is this geisha’s make up running down her face?
RoboGeisha is about two sisters, Yoshie and Kikue, who at heart love each other but on the surface are at each others’ throats. When a rich steel industrialist is introduced to them, he sees some potential for a secret experiment, while the two sisters simply see a possible suitor. This experiment, as it turns out, is kidnapping pretty but able girls, brainwashing them to be geisha assassins and sending them to kill every powerful player in between them and world domination. They also have a super nuke to throw into Mt. Fuji if that doesn’t pan out. Yoshie quickly becomes top of the heap among her peer killers, and on top of superior weapon skills she amplifies her abilities with a total cybernetic makeover. When Yoshie is ordered to assassinate the elderly leader of an underground alliance, she discovers the true intentions of her masters, and is betrayed, which is like, the last thing any employer should do to their angry mechanical assassin. Cue revenge.
