It's straight-to-video 1990s action schlock starring musicians and female professional wrestlers. (The wrestler heroine is Cutie Suzuki, who's well known in Japan even today.) It also has zombies, but they're far less important than the military death squads who think they're saving Japan. Here's how it begins:

METEOR STILL APPROACHING

COLLISION INEVITABLE

Terrible news! A meteorite just fell into Tokyo Bay!

"Anyone who attempts to escape will be executed on the spot. This facility is now occupied by the Ground Self-Defence Force. You will be under the supervision of the Fuji Guidance Group. All outside contact is prohibited. You are to continue supplying electricity until the blockade order on the Tokyo area is lifted."

Chaos ensues with martial law, looters and of course zombies. The military thinks the world would sterilise Japan to seal off the zombie infection. That sounds plausible. Also, the zombies have a technobabble explanation. The meteor impact's steam absorbed particles of an unknown fused heavy metal and infected everyone in Tokyo, Chiba and Kanagawa. This is harmless while you're alive, but it keeps corpses walking.

Stuntmen do bouncy comedy leaps when shot, even when they're playing zombies. There's surprisingly bad fight choreography, which made me wonder if these wrestling techniques didn't translate well to action movie fight scenes. Instead, there are lots of guns. There's intrusive straight-to-video incidental music. Zombies tend to be ineffective. A dog gets electrified. There's a Battle Kids' Bus, which carries enough ordnance for a war. (Its driver sometimes controls the steering wheel with his feet.) There are Noble Soldiers, like our heroine (Cutie Suzuki) and her father, who calls her Battle Girl and sends her on a mission. However, there are also Scary Psycho Soldiers who want to wipe out all the infected, even the ones who are still alive.

Their commander deliberately infects himself with super-zombie-ness, so Cutie Suzuki stabs him once and gives up when that doesn't work. Eh? Get methodical, girl. Take your time and carve him into little bits. What you just did wouldn't have stopped a regular zombie. Gyaaah. (Mind you, she ends up pushing a grenade in his mouth. That works too.)

There's one surprisingly effective moment. We see some caged zombies... and the film then shows us the same actors in the same cage but still human. That was a startling "imagine spot".

On the downside, looters decide to drag away and rape someone. Fortunately, zombies kill them first.

This film is trashy, but fun in its cheap-but-intense way. It never acknowledges that it's camp. It believes in itself. It's straight-faced. (It doesn't even pander with nudity.) Society has fallen, money is worthless and Tokyo's a warzone of zombies, rioters and soldiers. The film's also oddly slow and has inconsistent action scenes, but it's worth it just for the 1990s action hero soundtrack. CLANG! CRUNCH! WHIRR WHIRR. LOUD SWOOSH as someone jumps down into shot for no reason!