Japan Synopsis
片腕マシンガール
“It's Payback Time!”
The life of a young, Japanese schoolgirl is destroyed when her family is killed by a Ninja-Yakuza family. Her hand cut off, she replaces it with various machines-of-death, and seeks revenge.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with The Machine Girl. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Action + Adventure in Japan
1030 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Action and Adventure genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding The Machine Girl itself).
Other Titles From Fever Dreams
The 2007–2009 Japan Window
In the crowded 2007-2009 Japan release window, The Machine Girl sits at #300 of 362. The leaderboard below contextualises its neighbours.
The 2000s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in Japan, 1020 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Machine Girl premiered alongside 124 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 124 other Japan films in 2008.
The 2023rd Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Audience Engagement
171 audience reviews — more than 84% of Japan films in our index.
Review volume (84th percentile) outruns trending popularity (56th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on The Machine Girl, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- girl heroine · 4
- gatling gun · 2
- vomit · 1
- living machine · 1
- cyborg · 28
- schoolgirl · 22
- man vs machine · 7
- high school girl · 7
- female protagonist · 33
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #3,905 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (15th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -1.0 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Action productions specifically: #1,508 of 1,714 (top 88%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Japan, United States of America |
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Fever Dreams, Nikkatsu Corporation |
| Runtime | 1h 36m |
| Release Date | January 2, 2008 |
| IMDb | tt1050160 |