Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
1973 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan
Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the treasurer, who wants him dead. He finds a young woman dead following an abortion, and he enters a temple without permission looking for evidence. He tortures and then sexually assaults the temple's priestess to get information. He's then assigned to protect the mint from a notorious thief. There he closets himself in the bedroom of the mint's mistress. He waits. The thief arrives - but other crimes are afoot. Devalued currency, white slavery, and government corruption lead Hanzo to one conclusion.
Direction Yasuzô Masumura
Cast Shintarô Katsu · Keiko Aikawa · Kazuko Ineno · Keizo Kanie · Shin Kishida · Hosei Komatsu · Toshio Kurosawa · Daigo Kusano · Kô Nishimura · Kei Sato
Soundtrack Isao Tomita
Screenplay Yasuzô Masumura · Kazuo Koike
Cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa
Original title Goyôkiba: Kamisori Hanzô jigoku zeme (The Snare)
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