Toshiyuki (played by Ryouta Murai) is fleeing from a horde of zombies who can run faster than him, open doors and pull him through. They can even speak. While trying to devour you, they'll keep saying their favourite food from when they were alive. Mysteriously, though, Toshiyuki is liable to stop running and just stand there without paying attention to whether any zombies are nearby, etc.

Life expectancy of this guy = not even a few minutes. This is absurd. I was dismissing the film as garbage even before learning that Toshiyuki's one of the last human survivors in a zombie world. I don't believe it. He'd have been first in line to be zombie chow. I considered quitting... but then the opening credits announced that the cast included Asami. I changed my mind. She can chew scenery like nobody's business. At that point, I still had the ambition of one day doing a marathon of every Asami film I can find. (NOTE: this was before I watched the first Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead.)

Anyway, Toshiyuki gets pulled into a house of zombies who don't attack. It's a human farm. There are so few people left alive that one zombie has worked out that they need to manage their food supply... and the other zombies obey him. Toshiyuki is designated as Male #5. His job is to have sex. There are two women. Asami is Female #1, she loves this arrangement and she's already had four babies (all immediately eaten). Mitsue (Nagisa Odajima) is Female #2 and she just wants to be with her fiance, who's no longer here. He ran away. He might no longer be the man he was. Mitsue hates the whole human farm thing and is having sanity issues, which is understandable in this creepy set-up.

The zombies are matter-of-fact about it. They cook and act as maids. They won't attack if you do nothing stupid.

This is mental. Surprisingly, though, it's not sleazy. This concept sounds ripe for exploitation cinema, but there isn't even any nudity.

Once you're past that bad start (including glaringly CGI blood sprays), the film's actually quite good. Zombies aren't the worst people here. Some of the farmed humans like their situation and one of them even helps manage it. There's a wildly unlikely revelation, but it's not impossible and I managed to roll with it. (I have no issue with the fact that the chap exists in the first place, but it seems improbable that in all the world our heroes would encounter him.) The ending's disturbing as hell if you consider what our heroes are still doing, but it's probably the only practical option for short-term survival and at least it's an improvement. They're watering the flowers. They want to think about love.

This film's ideas are interesting. There are likeable heroes, sometimes-sympathetic zombies and startling baddies. I'm quite fond of it.