http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068650/
Plot by Imdb:"Hanzo is an incorruptible and unorthodox officer in Edo, as famous for his self-discipline and his love shaft as his sword. Against the backdrop of his magistrate's occasional rounding up of vagrants, Hanzo learns that an infamous killer is no longer on his island prison: did he escape or was he never there? Hanzo's investigation leads him to the magistrate's mistress, the killer's former lover. Hanzo pursues political questions that suggest complicity at the highest levels. Using sexual assault, he interrogates the mistress and later the favorite of Edo's most powerful woman. Can he get to the bottom of what's going on before powerful forces get him fired or killed?"
Don't fuck with Hanzo, or Hanzo will fuck you. And you'll be sorry. Believe me.
That's basically the main attraction of this Japanese movie, the first of the Hanzo trilogy. Played by Shintaro Katsu (who played Zatoichi a gazillion time before and after this film), brother of Tomisaburo Wakayama ("Lone wolf and cub"), Hanzo is a great over the top character that embodies everything exaggerated about this strange mix of sexploitation and chambara: a deadly sword, an implacable morality and...a gigantic and senseless penis. Kenji Misumi is an interesting director that had a lot of experience in commercial movie series, like the "Zatoichi" and "Lone Wolf and Cub" series, and does a good job here. A bit slow to unfold, the movie is amazing thanks to the hilarious sexual interrogation techniques used by Hanzo, fucking like a maniac the bad girls with an almighty righteousness that would have made John Holmes blemish. Sleazy in every way, as only the Japanese can do, Hanzo the Razor trilogy is a must see for the deviant fan of genre cinema.
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