- Actors: Tetsurô Tanba, Goro Ibuki, Tatsuo Endô, Ryôhei Uchida, Yuriko Hishimi
- Directors: Teruo Ishii
- Writers: Goseki Kojima, Kazuo Koike, San Kaji
- Producers: Keiichi Hashimoto, Keizo Mimura, Koji Shundo
- Format: Colour, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language Japanese
- Subtitles: English
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Discotek Media
- DVD Release Date: 20 May 2008
- Run Time: 81 minutes
- ASIN: B00118SUJ8
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 40,150 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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18 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Hmmm. Swords, Nudity and Spurting Blood
6 April 2008
Format:DVD
I own this film and it is excessive and brutal and sadistic, to be sure. It also has some really beautiful moments including the opening stylized title sequence. Tamba is reported to have never turned down a film in the course of his career (Asian Michael Caine,) which probably explains why he is in this. Teruo Ishii is a gifted film maker, possessing a unique and overly modulated style. While initially off-putting, the story eventually becomes interesting with regard to Tanba's plight. Two stars for the sqeemish, four stars for Japanese sword-fu fans.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
As good as it gets!
3 Dec 2008
Format:DVD
An amazing amount of breasts, wonderful gore, a cool as Hell killer and a tongue in cheek attitude about the whole thing. What more could a trash fan want? This is even better than the trailer!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Teruo Ishii's Psychotic Sex And Violence Opera!
22 Aug 2010
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
No other director could touch the demented terrain of Teruo Ishii's cinescapes, not even Seijun Suzuki or Kinji Fukasaku, and that speaks volumes about his works. This one's an operatic, over-sexed Edo period piece starring Tetsuro Tanba as a nihilistic, lone wolf Ronin alternately in alliance and then at odds with the Bohachi, a degenerate clan of amoral samurai dedicated to vice, specifically opium traffic and sex slavery.
Not even law enforcement or local government will go up against the Bohachi, and Tanba is a 'guest' among their leader, who has him executing operators of brothels who don't pay retribution as well as local law and yakuza that get in his way. Slayings rack up like lights and bells on a pinball machine; blood spray colors the night skies, bodies fall like leaves in October, but Tanba grows weary of all this. "To die is Hell, but to live is also Hell" he believes, but life and death do go on.
The Bohachi leader has female assassins follow Tanba around as additional protection, and they fight naked always, or so it would appear. I've never seen so many beautiful Asian breasts adorning one movie in my life. It's a beautiful thing to behold. The amount of nudity and violence is unparalleled and the low-budget indoor sets with psychedelic lighting make for a phantasmagorically decadent fever dream that you won't soon forget. Forget the 'Forgotten Eight'? Not bloody likely...
Not even law enforcement or local government will go up against the Bohachi, and Tanba is a 'guest' among their leader, who has him executing operators of brothels who don't pay retribution as well as local law and yakuza that get in his way. Slayings rack up like lights and bells on a pinball machine; blood spray colors the night skies, bodies fall like leaves in October, but Tanba grows weary of all this. "To die is Hell, but to live is also Hell" he believes, but life and death do go on.
The Bohachi leader has female assassins follow Tanba around as additional protection, and they fight naked always, or so it would appear. I've never seen so many beautiful Asian breasts adorning one movie in my life. It's a beautiful thing to behold. The amount of nudity and violence is unparalleled and the low-budget indoor sets with psychedelic lighting make for a phantasmagorically decadent fever dream that you won't soon forget. Forget the 'Forgotten Eight'? Not bloody likely...
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