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| Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice (1972) [Goyokiba] | ||
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| This is an artsy Japanese Samurai sexploitation film, the first in a trilogy. It's based on a comic, which explains its twisted humor, and it includes a rare scene with a salamander. The movie is set in ancient Japan in the days of the Samurai. Hanzo the Razor (Shintarô Katsu) is an officer of the law who fights corruption and crime while committing crimes himself. He's known for his "unorthodox interrogation techniques." What that means is that he rapes women to make them confess, and we're supposed to think the rapes are ultimately OK because the women end up enjoying it, but it would be more accurate to call him Hanzo the rapist. |
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The salamander shows up after Hanzo rapes a woman to make her tell him where to find her criminal boyfriend. We see them sitting in a hot tub drinking saké as he continues interrogating her. She looks up and is shocked to see a salamander on the bathhouse ceiling. Hanzo splashes water on it to make it fall to the floor. The woman is terrified when it falls to the floor near her. So Hanzo pulls a lever that makes a bunch of sharp pointed blades fall to the floor, skewering the salamander. He tells the woman that his house is full of booby traps and secret caches of weapons because he has a lot of enemies. Then he retracts the swords and we can see that the salamander is stuck on the end of one of the blades as they raise back up to the ceiling.
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