direct by the duo yudai yamaguchi ( battlefield baseball ) and junichi yamamoto meatball machine be apparently a remake of yamamoto 1999 movie with the same name . i doubt i will ever get a chance to see the original so i will just stick comment on this one . first of what be meatball machine . a simple in noway pretentious low budget industrial splatter flick pack with great make up effect and gore . it not something you will end up write book about but it nevertheless entertain if you dig this type of cinema . meatball machine follow the well know plot . boy love girl but be too afraid to ask her on a date . boy finally meet girl . girl get infect by a parasitic alien creature that turn her into a homicidal cyborg . boy and in turn do also transform into say thing and and go on a quest to save his love . will he succeed . who give a damn and as long a there be carnage and death i be satisfy . the plot be simple and relatively clichéd but it do it job well enough set the movie course straight forward into a bloody confrontation between the two leading character . there be a subplot focus on how the parasite that infect the girl come into to their life . and yes it too luckily show more violence . i be happy . acting be what you would expect from a no budget splatter film . it not exactly painful for the ear but it not exactly good either . the movie main attraction besides the violence and gore ( like i haven not mention that enough already ) be the cyborg design . do by keita amemiya who work in create outlandish creature and costume for both movie and video game be well know . the necroborgs a they be call in meatball machine look stunningly detail . without the usage of cgi amemiya design be a breathtaking fusion of flesh and metal and painfully awesome in their appearance . able to transform various part of the body into cool weaponry such a saw and rocket launcher and blood firing shotgun and so on and so on . though you can easily recognize the cheapness of the film and necroborgs be a movie class . meatball machine be tetsuo the iron man mix up with alien all do in low budget and extra ketchup mode . it an immensely entertaining film that disregard modern special effect and prove that the splatter genre be still alive and kicking .