is a 2004 Japanese

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film directed by

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, written by Naoki Kudo and Izō Hashimoto, and starring

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, and

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. Hashimoto plays a professional wrestler whose wife involuntarily turns into a mermaid.

Plot

Shishioh, a popular and successful professional wrestler, builds a large mansion for his wife Asami and their kids. During the housewarming party, Ichijo, an angry competitor, causes a riot that destroys the house. Asami is hospitalized, where she contracts a rare virus that slowly transforms her into a mermaid. Desperate for money to finance his new house and find a cure for Asami, Shishioh agrees to a reality TV show in which he wrestles several competitors in a haunted house. His opponents turn out to be homicidal killers and include a zombie among them. Eventually, Shishioh learns that the television producer infected Asami with an experimental virus in order to get him to compete.

Cast

as Kouta Shishioh *

as Nami * Shirô Sano as Yamaji *

as Ichijoh * Urara Awata as Asami

Release

''Oh! My Zombie Mermaid'' premiered at the

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on February 21, 2004.

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purchased the North American distribution rights and released it in North America on July 28, 2009.

Reception

Todd Brown of

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wrote that the first half takes itself too seriously, but the second half is "pure, ridiculous, campy joy to watch." Bill Gibron of

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rated it 4.5/5 stars and called it "a true work of baffling genius." In ''The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia'', academic

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wrote, "The film is fairly entertaining, and keeps providing narrative and conceptual twists every step along the way."

References

External links

* 2004 films 2000s action comedy films 2000s Japanese-language films Japanese action comedy films Films about mermaids Professional wrestling films Zombie comedy films Discotek Media Japanese sports comedy films 2004 comedy horror films 2000s Japanese films {{comedy-horror-film-stub