Yûdai Yamaguchi & Jun'ichi Yamamoto's MEATBALL MACHINE at the (Yet) Another Hole in the Head film festival

Here's a description of Meatball Machine (2005) from the MySpace SF Indie Fest page: "Yudai Yamaguchi's follow-up to the irresistible high-school zombie sports epic Battlefield Baseball (which we played in 2004) is a remake/expansion of Junichi Yamamoto's 1999 cult short of the same name, and is co-directed by the creator of the original. It starts out nicely enough as two lonely factory workers experience the first blush of love. Just as Yoji and Sachiko begin their heart-warming romance, their lives alter forever as tiny aliens invade the earth. These hostile little creatures from beyond parasitically implant themselves into tumor-like growths on human shoulders, penetrate their eye sockets with alien technology and turn them into alien-slave warrior-cyborgs called 'Necro-Borgs' who must battle each other to the (jaw-dropping) deat[h]s to survive. Soon the aliens have targeted Sachiko. Uh oh, it's going to get messy."

For more information on Meatball Machine (2005), see Twitch's seventh, sixth, fifth, fourth, third, second, and first articles on it.

Yamaguchi's previous directing credits include Tebana Sankichi and Twice Shiroh Strikes! (Tebana Sankichi to 2 (tuwaisu) Shirô ga yuku), Sakigake!! Cromartie High School: The Movie (Sakigake!! Kuromati Kôkô: The Movie), Present (Purezento) - one of the movies in the Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater (Umezu Kazuo: kyôfu gekijô) hexalogy - and Battlefield Baseball (Jigoku Kôshien).

Meatball Machine (2005) trailer (English subtitled; streaming Windows Media)
Cinebel.be: Meatball Machine (2005) large trailer page
Cinebel.be: Meatball Machine (2005) medium trailer page
Cinebel.be: Meatball Machine (2005) small trailer page
Meatball Machine (2005) production stills gallery
Flyer for Meatball Machine (1999) (24 KB JPEG)
VHS box cover for Meatball Machine (1999) (8 KB JPEG)