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Meatball Machine

YAMAGUCHI Yudai / YAMAMOTO Junichi

Japan2005 90smin Digi-beta Color Asian Premiere

Synopsis

Director Yudai Yamaguchi visited Puchon on two previous occasions with the movies, Down to Hell and Cromartie High School. In 2006, he will be joining the festival again with a splatter/dark hero action movie. Yoji, who works at a small factory and lives a lonely life without a friend, gradually falls in love with Sachiko, who works at a factory across the river. Meanwhile, strange creatures start to attach themselves as parasites to human bodies throughout the world. By dominating the people's mind they create a monster named "Necro-borgs", and for its survival they start killing each other.

Diretor

YAMAGUCHI Yudai

Battlefield Baseball (2003) based on a cartoon is his debut film, followed by Babaa Zone (2004) and  Cromaty High school (2005)presented for PiFan.

YAMAMOTO Junichi

Junichi Yamamoto worked on Street Fighter2 (1995), a TV series and jointly directed Meatballl Machine with Yudai.