Runtime:
89 minutes
Directed
by: Yasuzo Masumura
Starring:
Shintaro Katsu, Toshio Kurosawa, Ko Nishimura, Kei Sato
From:
Toho
January
of this year I saw the first in the Hanzo trilogy, known as Hanzo the
Razor. You can read that review here. In short, it's a wildly
entertaining movie set in the old Edo period where there's a samurai
named Hanzo who is a loose cannon type and he is almost Puritanical
in enforcing the code of the samurai as he battles against his
corrupt superiors and he's all YOLO and does his own thing to stop
the bad people. He is great at what he does but he has his quirks...
such as torturing himself, having two servants who are former
criminals, and oh yeah, having a giant penis and doing such things as
literally beating it with a piece of wood, having sex with a bag of
rice, and using RAPE against some females in order to get some
information from them, and they all end up enjoying it due to his
abnormally large schlong. Aside from that grossly offensive plot
point, I really enjoyed that wacky film that has some pretty violent
bloody bits.
The
plot: It is pretty much the same as the first one, except that this
time the plot revolves around devalued currency, forced slavery,
government corruption, S&M and people who are peeping toms and
enjoy watching S&M, and... abortion; that last plot point seems
timely given the events in Texas this week, but that's how the plot
gets started, a woman dies after she got an abortion.
If
you enjoyed the first one, this is more of the same, including the
unfortunate sexual assault stuff. There are some laughs from wacky
stuff, including the phrase: “But she was a slut... look at her
dark nipples!” I swear that is true. There are also such things as
another funky soundtrack (but in a different way), S&M whippings
with a long wooden stick, a woman (who happens to be bald) getting
regularly tortured along with the sexual assault, and even Hanzo
cross-dressing at one point. I won't give much more away in case you
want to watch the entire series. I rate it about the same as the
first one.
I'll
be back tomorrow night.
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