Zombie Self-Defense Force


Zombie Self-Defense Force is a 2006 Japanese zombie comedy 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
  • Jun Yamasaki as Hayakawa

    Release

Zombie Self-Defense Force premiered at 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. 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."