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Shozi (Yusuke Kawatsu) earns his money collecting insects on an island
- even if a large portion of the time he claims to be collecting insects,
he spends with sexy Anabelle (Kathy Moran), away from his wife Yukari
(Shizumi Shindo). Then though he sees an airplane crash, finds a pilot's
watch belonging to one of the airplane's crew, tries to sell it, and
before he knows it he is wanted for murder ...
Thing is, the airplane belonged to the American army and was carrying
an H-bomb - but then it was attacked by killer bees (no joke), and while
the crew managed to evacuate themselves and the bomb, they were later
killed by - well - killer bees, all but Charly (Chico Roland), who seems
to have gone completely bonkers. Investigating officer Gordon (Ralph
Jesser) of the US-army though does not believe in killer bees and thus has
Shozi arrested - mainly because he wants to get the whereabouts of the
H-bomb out of him.
Yukari believes in her husband's innocence, so she calls in Shozi's
entymologist friend Doctor Nagumo (Keisuke Sonoi), who finds more and more
proof that the crewmen were indeed killed by killer bees, a totally new
kind that only exists on this particular island, but Gordon is way too
preoccupied with finding out the whereabouts of the bomb to really care.
Things have since taken a turn to the worse when Shozi got away from
the police and hooked up with Anabelle - because Anabelle, you see, is a
mad scientist who has not only created the killer bees, she also wants to
dominate the world with the help of insects, and to that end, she stops at
nothing and even forms a temporary alliance with the Russians, who
desperately want to get their hands on the H-bomb naturally, and on her
newly developed killer bees. But there's still Doc Nagumo, who has soon
tracked the secret of the killer bees to Anabelle's house, and when he and
Anabelle fight, the bees are somehow released, killing Anabelle, the
Russian spies who have finally tracked down the bomb, and Shozi, who
finally redeems himself by shielding his wife and unborn child from the
bees with his body.
In the end though, Gordon decides to blow up the H-bomb to keep it from
falling into enemy hands and to destroy the killer bees ... and if
some innocents die in the process, that cannot be helped ...
Enjoyable if not really remarkable sci-fi trashmovie that features some
pretty wild ideas (most of which can be enjoyed in the film much better
than in my synopsis) and a short trippy sequence (Doc Nagumo tries the
bees' poison and its antidote on himself) that have to be seen to be
believed. Granted, Genocide is by no means a perfect film, but it's
actually pretty entertaining and rather amusing (if at times for all the
wrong reasons).
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