Starring: Shintarô Katsu Yukiji Asaoka, Mari Atsumi
Certificate: 18
Genre: Action
Awards: None
The Hanzo The Razor series was a Samurai trilogy that seems to have been influenced by anti-hero cop films such as Dirty Harry, with Hanzo (Katsu), an officer in feudal Japan who doesn't play by the rules and does anything to solve the case. In the first film, Hanzo finds that a criminal has escaped from prison and investigates through a trail of police corruption and duplicity.Whilst the film seems to be rather tongue in cheek, the use of rape by the protagonist leaves a rather sour taste in the mouth, as female suspects are forced upon by Hanzo in a form of interrogation that the film does not condemn but even portrays as erotism.
The overall plot is rather flimsy with no major villain to really make an impact. Once the main Plot line is completed. The film also carries on for a while, seemingly not sure what to do with it's major character and creates a subplot trying to bring the debate of Euthanasia into the fray. Yet as Hanzo doesn't seem like a character that is overall a 'good guy' (I wouldn't even class him as an anti-hero), it is hard to take any moral lessons from him that seriously.
Overall, Sword Of Justice works as a mediocre action film that uses shock and a very slanted morality to entertain. Yet, it hasn't really persuaded me to pursue its two sequels.
**Pretty Bad
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