Unable to live up to the exacting standards of her sushi chef father, Keiko runs away from home and becomes a maid at a hotel. At first, the worst of her troubles there are her mean girl colleagues and the pompous guests, but Keiko's dad was also a martial arts aficionado, and that's one area where she actually lives up to his legacy, so when said guests finally get too much for her and then get aggressive when she talks back, Keiko more than holds her own.
Unfortunately for everyone except the audience, Keiko's problems are going to get way worse, as a former geneticist turned hobo now unleashes his revenge on those who wronged him - the pompous guests I mentioned - by using his experimental zombie formula to animate an army of undead, killer sushi.
Aided only by the hotel gardener - and by an egg sushi roll that was bullied by the seafood sushi, and no I am not making that up - Keiko must fight for her life against a swarm of sociopathic sashimi.
So, you've probably twigged to the fact that Dead Sushi is not exactly the most serious of films, which is perhaps not surprising for a film that sets out to be a mashup of Piranha 3D and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. It hurls all kinds of absurdity at the screen - though it smartly does so in an ever-escalating fashion, so that you're well primed for each incremental increase in the insanity - as well as plenty of enthusiastically over-the-top sushi-on-human violence. Which as you might imagine, even when it becomes quite graphic, is always more than a bit goofy.
I watched Dead Sushi with friends, and we all had a great time. If the premise sounds at all amusing to you, it's worth checking out.
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