Update: Stills gallery for Yûdai Yamaguchi & Jun'ichi Yamamoto's MEATBALL MACHINE (a.k.a. "Mîtobôru mashin"), w/ Issei Takahashi, Aoba Kawai, Tôru Tezuka, Shôichirô Masumoto, & Ayano Yamamoto

A production stills gallery for Yûdai Yamaguchi and Jun'ichi Yamamoto's Meatball Machine (a.k.a. "Mîtobôru mashin") - a remake of the latter's 1999 movie of the same title - has been added to the Trailer Park subsite of GOMORRAHY.com.

As was reported here on Twitch back on September 8th, Meatball Machine (2005) stars Issei Takahashi, Aoba Kawai, Tôru Tezuka (Teduka Tôru), Shôichirô Masumoto, and Ayano Yamamoto. Keita Amemiya designed the characters for it. (Amemiya himself directed "The Promise" ("Yakusoku") in the omnibus horror movie Tales of Terror (Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: gekijô-ban) - a.k.a. "Tales of Terror from Tokyo: The Movie".) Yoshihiro Nishimura was responsible for its special effects, special make-up effects, and molds. (Nishimura previously worked on Noboru Iguchi's Impolite Education (18-kin - abunai kankei: the kinshinsôkan), "Evil Guy" ("Yôchû no harawata") - a.k.a. "Entrails of a Larva" - and A Larva to Love (Koi suru yôchû).

Meatball Machine (2005) premièred at the Tokyo International Fantastic Film Festival (Tôkyô Kokusai Fantasutikku Eigasai) - "Tokyo Fanta" for short - on October 14th. King Record K.K. (Kingu Rekôdo K.K.) apparently plans to release it theatrically in Japan next year.

Yamaguchi's previous directing credits include Sakigake!! Cromartie High School: The Movie (Sakigake!! Kuromati Kôkô: The Movie), Present (Purezento) - one of the half-dozen hour-long movies in the Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater (Umezu Kazuo: kyôfu gekijô) series - and Battlefield Baseball (Jigoku Kôshien).

GOMORRAHY.com: Meatball Machine (2005) production stills gallery
Tokyo Fanta: Meatball Machine (2005)
Flyer for Meatball Machine (1999) (24 KB JPEG)
VHS box cover for Meatball Machine (1999) (8 KB JPEG)
A Larva to Love trailer (downloadable 3.4 MB Shockwave Flash file)