About six years the film industry seemed to suddenly decide that bosoms + zombies = money. We had both Zombie Strippers and Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! In later years they were followed by Zombies vs Strippers and Kyonyu Dragon.
If that last film sounds out of place, don't worry: the English language title is above, and is a lot more direct about the film's content. Not that it's actually got all that much nudity, despite the two leads being veterans of Japan's adult video industry. But we're revisiting the strippers vs zombies theme once more (with the option of 3D no less, though I watched in 2D as I always do).
Lena is a down on her luck exotic dancer who out of desperation takes a job with a disreputable promoter who's previously stiffed her on money. She's one of five dancers on the job, and they variously squabble, play dice, and lounge about being bored as there is a definite absence of punters in the run-down club they're in. This boredom leads them to investigate a strangely chilly corridor they find behind a pile of boxes (as you do), where they find the Necronomicon and read from it (as you do). And suddenly, zombies. Huzzah! Everything is better with the walking dead.
The strippers react to the zombie onslaught with different degrees of success. This not being the most serious of films, the two leads take katana and chainsaw up against zombie ninjas, zombie samurai, and all sorts of other wacky walking dead. There's lots of not terribly well staged fighting, gouts of CGI blood (and buckets of the old fashioned fake kind), and comedy of varying degrees of success.
One to check out if you're into the more gonzo Japanese films (The Machine Girl, RoboGeisha, and the like). If you don't have a taste for the seriously absurd, however, you won't like it.
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