'Wicked City' Review

This is a review of director Yoshiaki Kawajiri's 'Wicked City'.

Still have this one on VHS with the old Streamline trailer that included classics like Akira, Neo Tokyo,Fist of the North Star, and Vampire Hunter D. Basically, the film's about a secret agent named Taki and his incredibly beautiful partner named Makie. They are assigned to protect a pint-sized pervert named Giuseppe Mayart who's coming to Tokyo to sign a 500 year old peace treaty between Earth and the Black World, a parallel dimension, which also happens to be where Makie is from.Throughout the film, the agents do battle with a host of weird creatures determined to sabotage the treaty.

The artwork is absolutely gorgeous. Kawajiri's trademark throughout all of his films are the long mysterious Japanese eyes and this film is probably his best in that regard as Makie has got to be the sexiest female ever in an anime.

But I can't stress this enough: this one is for adults only. A good example of hand-drawn artwork before 3D rendered artwork took over. Like the song at the end also. If you like Takashi Miike's stuff you should have no problem with this one.