Kyoko vs. Yuki (2000)

Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

With a poll taking place on IMDbs Classic Film board for the best movies of the year 2000,I started looking round for flicks to view from the year,and I ended up stumbling upon a film which sounded like a real sleaze fest!,which led to me getting ready to see Kyoko face Yuki.The plot:Finishing her assassin training,Kyoko is given the task of tracking down a thief who has stolen a suitcase filled with cash & cocaine.Meeting her for sex,Yuki turns the tables on the thief,by inviting her lover Maki so that they can tie the guy up.After having sex,Yuki and Maki kill the guy,and take the suitcase that he had.Opening the case,Yuki is delighted to find it filled with cash,which can used to pay the debt that Maki's sister left.As Yuki gets set to pay Maki's debt,Kyoko discovers that 2 girls have taken her targets suitcase.View on the film:Rushing past at a quick 52 minutes,the screenplay by writer/director Daisuke Yamanouchi keeps everything at face value,as Yamanouchi's brittle dialogue gets Kyoko's training and Yuki's thieving to lead to a disappointingly abrupt cliff-hanger ending.Whilst the ending does let the film down, Yamanouchi makes up for it by giving the screenplay a rather deep cut of sleaze,which goes from Kyoko's hand being chopped off,to Yuki having sex with a corpse.Although the movie surprisingly does not contain that much gore, Yamanouchi makes up for it with the exposure of skin.Ripping up Yuki's schoolgirl outfit, Yamanouchi tracks every part of naked flesh,which despite being covered in terribly over done "slurping" sound effects,still contain a sexy spark thanks to the alluring looks of the cast.Final view on the film:A film that is far from being Yuki.

Mainly all girl bloody violence and soft core sex, but men get beaten to a pulp too.Familiar looking Japanese streets and landscapes, schoolgirls in uniform and crunching violence with gushing results.Little extra treats include a severed hand plus it's re-attachment by the girl herself who decides to add a few metal shears while she's at it.An umbrella down the throat, over sized Kentucky fried chicken eating lady in net body stocking, plus strap on, plus, plus, plus… Oh, and my very first lesbian necrophilia scene.

From notorious J-splatter/sleaze director Daisuke Yamanouchi, who brought you such filthy classics as MUZAN E, GIRL HELL, RED ROOM 1&2, and SENKETSU NO KIZUNA, comes another nasty mess - KYOKO VS. YUKI. Unfortunately, as much as I wanted to like this film - I really just didn't...My copy has no subs or dubs, so from what I gather from the film, Kyoko is a trained assassin and Yuki is a thief (or is it the other way around?...). When they both share the same "mark" for a job, things get competitive between the two professionals, resulting in some pretty bloody cat-fights.Although KYOKO VS. YUKI had some of the shock elements that Yamanouchi is famous for (over-the-top gore, totally unnecessary sleazy sex, a pretty twisted lesbian necrophilia scene, etc...) this one still is the weakest of his films that I've seen so far. I thought that this was a pretty cool and solid concept for a splatter film, if not totally original (several mainstream films have been made with the same basic premise...) but it just didn't deliver. Worth a look to the hard-core "extreme" horror/sleaze fan...most others will be sickened or disappointed. A pretty generous 6/10

"Kyoko vs Yuki" is another cheap exploitation flick made by Daisuke Yamanouchi,the guy behind "Red Room" series or "Mu Zan E".The aforementioned movies are much better than this silly exercise in bad taste.Basically "Kyoko vs Yuki" is about two Japanese girls(one of them is a schoolgirl trained to be killer and another one is a lesbian)fighting with each other with incredibly bloody results.The film offers plenty of lesbian sex/necrophilia and some sickening gore,but the acting is really horrible.I must say that I had always had a problem with SOV stuff,because it looks crap.Japanese filmmakers are usually very good with this medium as they use high-quality equipment and often make films such as "Toriko" or "Naked Blood".Unfortunately this is not the case with "Kyoko vs Yuki".Still if you are into gore or sadistic Japanese horror give this one a look.6 out of 10.