Gambo

Poster may look like, it's for all age of audience but it's actually meant for adults only. There is violence, profanity and nudity and the form of animation actually makes it more raw with the fights. Gambo is the third short story from the movie Short peace. Begin as a historical story ends up with being mystery. It's definitely a good watch. 8/10 for me.

In the period closest to Edo, there is a big white bear appears, who tends to show no harms toward the citizens but the shogun's knight encounters it as the source of evil. In the fight a miracle happens as a ... shooting star alike thing drops near the region of Shogun. People of the village curiously check on the dropping spot find a red coloured human alike creature. They intent to take care of it, but it doesn't ends well as the creature ends up killing the womans who were nursing him. Red creature takes all the woman's of the village, which becomes problem for the leader of the village to ask help from the Shogun. Only a single girl left in the village after the massacre of the creature; she becomes the target for the next time. Girl on the other hand meets up with white bear and ask for help, which lead to fight between Red creature and the Bear. Adding the support from Shogun's army, they kill the creature. Later it was revealed from the spot that, creature was actually an alien came from space crashed on the land. So shocking and fascinating isn't it !!!

It's only 11 minutes long so my review will be brief as well. The story takes place a few hundred years before our time, in Japan. I found Gambo very powerful and raw. The action was bloody, but not excessively gore either.

The battle scenes themselves are what you'd expect between a bear and a giant Oni type of monster : claws, bites, punches. No fluffy moves.

I highly recommend this one for those who like straight to the point action.

The art was ok. The character development wasn't something that could be fit in such a short piece, but it was satisfying to ... me.

7/10 overall enjoyment

Rate Good (7)
seen via japanese audio with english subtitles.

Warning:not for the faint of heart. Reason being involves rape in minor girls(aftermath).

Normally i consider these snuff films garbage but this one i disagree. True it did have an evil tone but i can't help but to wonder in the ancient path if demons roamed the earth. If that was the case i would thank my lucky stars if i had the aid of a monster on my side. Which is why i liked the show. Not only was it a tad unique but despite how bad things are there was hope if you had faith. ... Which provides true to never give in and the enemy of my enemy is my friend.