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Hanzo the Razor Actor: Shintaro Katsu Number of Items: 3 Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Box set Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Running Time: 296 minutes Studio: Image Entertainment Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2005-04-19 Buy from Amazon

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 8 Average rating: 4.5 "A must have!" I saw the series years ago on vhs and I liked it a lot. Great Action. It's great watching Shintaro Katsu doing other characters as well. Most of the people know him best for his work as the legendary Zatoichi. Hanzo the Razor is not your regular samurai movie. You'll see why they call him the Longest Arm of the Law. If HVE did a excellent job on the Zatoichi series I'm pretty sure Hanzo will be no exception. Highly Recommended! "Only the japanese..." Hanzo the man made of steel (and I really mean the whole man). He fights evil and corruption in Edo-Japan in his own ways. Untouchable as Eliott Ness, but with the very strange habit of tortureing Women with his... well... real big schlong. And of course torture leads to pleasure because Hanzo the Blade knows how to use his tool right. Yes, this is political uncorrect japanese Trash at it's best. A kind of japanese Shaft (even the funky score reminded me a little of Shaft), just a little bit naughtier... Don't even try to take it serious or you'd have a problem watching these movies. 3 Parts to the series (every one an own movie for its self), part 2 (this one) and part 3 are the better. Don't look one after the other in too short time, because the buildup is pretty similar to every movie. "interrogation has many sides" I have been trying to find out just how many of these films exist. I've seen 3 of them.. They combine all the familiar elements of the midieval japanese samurai (I don't have my Alain Silver guide handy) drama.. with some funny and very welcome twists.. The main character is a constable with a kind of rogue ethic, a Ronin cop, if you will, who holds corruption over his bosses heads so he can get his way...He also has a kind of rogue aesthetic.. especially in his interrogation techniques.. the 3 films I have seen start with him "conditioning" his sexual organ with various techniques which could only be described as masochistic.. but you see, this uh, tool, is his interrogation device, and he uses sex to interrogate the females in the particular case.. These are not porno movies, but rather a very wonderful Bawdy Samurai/Comedy Action Thriller Hybrid.. The tone is totally serious.. but it comes off hilarious.. especially his rube-goldbergian security devices that protect his house.. Please if anybody knows tell me where to get more of these films.. I'm definitely a fan..