Urufu gai: Moero ôkami-otoko (1975)

Urufu gai: Moero ôkami-otoko: Directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi. With Shin’ichi Chiba, Kyôsuke Machida, Yuriko Azuma, Saburô Date. A man with a special power attempts to help a cursed woman.

“This film is completely demented. It starts with great flourish, violence, gore and excitement with only a hint of just how over the top it will become. There is a semblance of story at the beginning, however, strange and there is a mystery for us to work out and much extreme violence to deal with. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAs the film progresses, though, it begins to get a little bit silly and gradually story and suspense give way to increasingly stupid and facile action which would not have been out of place in a comic. So stylish at the start it is a crime that in the end bombs are being tossed about in some disused quarry.”