After playing the heroic blind swordsman Zatoichi over two dozen times, Shintaro Katsu must’ve been worried he’d be typecast as a goodie-two shoes. As Hanzo the Razor, he is a total lout, and a truly sick, twisted, and perverse individual. This Hanzo is my kind of guy.
Hanzo is a policeman who’s supposed to take a blood oath to uphold the law and accept no bribes. However, he refuses to go along with it on the grounds that the system is so corrupt that it would make him a hypocrite. He then sets out on the trail of a killer and encounters corruption, murder, and deceit along the way.
Hanzo is a total masochist too. In one scene, he literally beats his meat. I don’t mean he chokes his chicken. This guy literally hammers his cock. This might also be the only movie I’ve ever seen in which the hero makes love to a bag of rice. Then there are the insane scenes where he “interrogates” woman suspects until they are on the brink of ecstasy and can’t help but confess in order to achieve orgasm. That’s not even mentioning the POV shots of Katsu’s dick going in and out of the suspects, which are artistically superimposed over the woman’s face.
Folks, I’ve seen some shit in my time, but I ain’t seen that.
If you liked Katsu in the Blind Swordsman movies, you may be in for quite a shock as he is a complete bastard in this. He’s definitely closer to Sonny Chiba in The Streetfighter than the Katsu of Zatoichi. I especially liked the cool opening sequence where he struts down the street to a funky beat that feels like it could’ve easily come out of a Blaxploitation flick of the same era.
Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice contains some jaw-dropping stuff early on. However, the fun sort of dries up in the third act as the plot begins to meander and the weirdness starts to subside. Still, there’s plenty of wacky shit here for me to wholeheartedly recommend it.
AKA: Fang of the Official. AKA: The Razor: The Sword of Justice. AKA: The Sword of Justice.
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