Pretty sure tokyo gore police and those kinds of movies fall into the horror genre (wierd monsters, cruel villians, tons of gore = horror)
I'd describe TGP as a sci-fi/action film, all the weirder elements are hardly unusual in a sci-fi film. As two of the three criteria could also apply to Ninja Assassin, it becomes a bit self-defeating and/or circular. You'd end up having to come up with so many caveats it'd make the discussion pointless - "is this the most blood used in an action film with non-horror elements (as decided by some kind of committee)?" Also, as has been pointed out, the New Japanese Gore films take their blood-letting inspiration from older films, especially the more exploitationy chanbara films of the 70s, so if you want to find similar purely action films with large amounts of bloodshed you could look there. However, some of the NJG films also have little or no horror elements - "Hard Revenge Milly" and "Hard Revenge Milly: Bloody Battle" would count and there is plenty of blood shed (as the name would imply), special make-up effects were also by Yoshihiro Nishimura, the director and special effects guy behind TGP.
You have two main problems with assessing the amount of blood sloshed around in Ninja Assassin:
* Each cut doesn't release a lot of blood, compared to the high pressure fountains popular in Japanese films (going back to an accident on the set while filming Sanjuro), so you have to rely on there being a lot of deaths and, while I've not counted them, I suspect some of the Lone Wolf and Cub films have a similar body count but also employ fountaining blood. Hell they even took on ninjas and I'd be surprised if that scene wasn't on the minds of those behind Ninja Assassin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUe7GemjjdA (although NA is more a homage to the ninja films of the 80s, so....).
* The bulk of the blood seen on screen is CGI, which makes it impossible to assess the amount of it there is - with Braindead, all you need do is find out how much fake blood they had and what was left over. As Tokyo Gore Police uses a lot of old school special effects, you could get a reasonable assessment of the volume of claret spilled there.
James McTeigue discusses the extensive use of stylised, CGI blood here:
http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/exclusive-james-mcteigue-tal ks-ninja-assasin-interview-colea.php
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