Oh! My Zombie Mermaid

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Oh! My Zombie Mermaid
Ā! Ikkenya puroresu
Directed byNaoki Kudo
Written by
  • Izō Hashimoto
  • Naoki Kudo
Starring
Production
company
Soft on Demand
Distributed bySoft on Demand
Release date
  • February 21, 2004 (2004-02-21) (YIFFF)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Oh! My Zombie Mermaid (あゝ!一軒家プロレス, Ā! Ikkenya puroresu) is a 2004 Japanese

action comedy film directed by Naoki Kudo, written by Naoki Kudo and Izō Hashimoto, and starring Shinya Hashimoto, Sonim, Shirō Sano, and Nicholas Pettas
. Hashimoto plays a professional wrestler whose wife involuntarily turns into a mermaid.

Plot

Shishioh, a popular and successful professional wrestler, builds a large mansion for his wife Asami and their kids. During the housewarming party, Ichijo, an angry competitor, causes a riot that destroys the house. Asami is hospitalized, where she contracts a rare virus that slowly transforms her into a mermaid. Desperate for money to finance his new house and find a cure for Asami, Shishioh agrees to a reality TV show in which he wrestles several competitors in a haunted house. His opponents turn out to be homicidal killers and include a zombie among them. Eventually, Shishioh learns that the television producer infected Asami with an experimental virus in order to get him to compete.

Cast

Release

Oh! My Zombie Mermaid premiered at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival on February 21, 2004.

Discotek Media purchased the North American distribution rights[1] and released it in North America on July 28, 2009.[2]

Reception

Todd Brown of

Twitch Film wrote that the first half takes itself too seriously, but the second half is "pure, ridiculous, campy joy to watch."[3] Bill Gibron of DVD Talk rated it 4.5/5 stars and called it "a true work of baffling genius."[2] In The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, academic Peter Dendle wrote, "The film is fairly entertaining, and keeps providing narrative and conceptual twists every step along the way."[4]

References

  1. Twitch Film. Archived from the original
    on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
  2. ^ a b Gibron, Bill (2009-08-21). "Oh! My Zombie Mermaid". DVD Talk. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
  3. Twitch Film. Archived from the original
    on 2015-02-07. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
  4. ISBN 9780786492886
    .

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