Film Review
Attack Girls Swim Team vs. The Undead (Japan, 2007)
★★★★
Attack Girls Swim Team vs. The Undead
Attack Girls Swim Team vs. The Undead is available at Amazon.

Sasa Handa and Yuria Hidaka alone, make this one worth a look.

An inoculation that’s supposed to prevent a virus that’s going around the school turns those that get it into flesh-eating zombies. However, the members of the swim team aren’t affected and it’s later discovered that the chlorine in the pool seems to make them immune to the effects of the tainted vaccine. So, we have the swim team vs. the undead.

Sasa Handa (known during her non-AV days as “Chieri Haruyama”) plays Aki Kitashima, a new student with a mysterious background who possess the skills to fight the undead. If the character was written as being emotionless and wooden, then Sasa played this one to the T. However, I believe it’s safe to say that Sasa was cast in this role for at least two reasons other than her acting abilities, or lack of. Yuria Hidaka plays Sayaka, who assumes leadership of the swim team after they lose their captain. She gives Aki a very warm welcome to the school and encourages her to join the team without even knowing if she can swim. She also reveals to Aki that they share some common physical traits (or so it seems) and a very special bond. There’s a very steamy shower and kitchen floor scene between the two in this film and the latter even made me forget I was watching a splatter-comedy ….even one with T&A. A little Googling on Yuria will reveal she’s done some pretty “extravagant” work during her JAV career. One of the prettiest ladies in the film whom I wish would have had a larger part, is Mizuka Arai. In this still from the classroom carnage scene, she’s about to be a tasty bite for her zombiefied classmate. Ayumu Tokitô plays Miss Mariko, a teacher who becomes a sex-starved homicidal maniac after being infected with the strange virus, which also causes her (for whatever reason) to speak in English. However, it’s so poorly-enunciated, the English subtitles remain during her crazy rantings. If you have a collection of Japanese gore movies with gratuitous female nudity, this one is definitely worth adding to it.

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Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Chris flirted with the music business there and in Nashville before joining the U.S. Army and serving in South Korea. He remained in Asia for several years afterwards, teaching English, traveling, and covering the regional entertainment scenes. Currently in a mindset between Seoul and San Francisco, besides Idol Features, you can also catch his writings in the print edition of the monthly magazine, Effective.