Goyôkiba: Oni no Hanzô yawahada koban (1974)

Réalisateur:

Yoshio Inoue

Scénaristes:

Takeshi Kanda (story)
Kazuo Koike (comic)
(suite)

Date de sortie:

9 février 1974 (Japan)

Genre:

Action

Intrigue:

Follow the money. In a time of economic disaster for wage earners, Hanzo discovers a conspiracy among...

Plot Keywords:

Samurai | Ghost | Chambara | Sexploitation | Nudity

Avis des utilisateurs:

Entertaining closure for the Hanzo trilogy

Ensemble

Shintarô Katsu	...	Hanzo 'The Razor' Itami
Kô Nishimura	...	Magohei 'Snake' Ohnishi
Mako Midori	...	Yumi
Mikio Narita	...	Bansaku Tonami
Asao Koike	...	Ishiyama
Etsushi Takahashi	...	Sugino
Daigo Kusano	...	Onibi
Keizô Kani'e	...	Mamushi
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Aoi Nakajima	...	Kato's wife
Hiroshi Nawa	...	Hotta
Kei'ichi Noda
Rokko Toura	...	Kato
Michiko Tsukasa	...	Wife
Akira Yamauchi	...	Takei

Réalisé par
Yoshio Inoue

Scénaristes (dans l'ordre alphabétique)
Takeshi Kanda		story
Kazuo Koike		comic
Yasuzo Masumura		writer

Produit par
Shintarô Katsu	....	producer
Hiroyoshi Nishioka	....	producer

Musique originale
Hideaki Sakurai

Image
Chishi Makiura

Companies de production

• Katsu Production Co. Ltd.
• Toho Company

Distributeurs

• Home Vision Entertainment (HVE) (2005) (USA) (DVD)
• Madman Entertainment (2006) (Australia) (DVD)
• Toho Company

Autre(s) titre(s):

Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold? (USA) (DVD box title)
Haunted Gold
Razor 3: Who's Got the Gold? (USA)

Durée:

USA:84 min

Pays:

Japan

Langue:

Japonais

Couleur:

Couleur

Rapport de forme:

2,35 : 1

Son:

Mono

Classification:

Australia:MA

Société:

Katsu Production Co. Ltd.

Goofs:

Erreurs factuelles: In the shot with a bamboo spear filled with gold pieces flying into the pond, the flight the spear takes is impossible, as the weight of the gold would have flipped it over.

Guillemet:

Hanzo 'The Razor' Itami: A woman ghost? Interesting. Take me there.
Onibi: To see the ghost? Please, don't make us go back.
Hanzo 'The Razor' Itami: What did she look like?
Onibi: Her face was like…
Mamushi: Yeah, her face…
Hanzo 'The Razor' Itami: I want to make love to a ghost once.
Mamushi: To a ghost?
Onibi: Are you serious?
Hanzo 'The Razor' Itami: A man would like it once.
Onibi: Do you mean it?
[...]

Connexions De Film:

Suite de Goyôkiba: Kamisori Hanzô jigoku zeme (1973)

Entertaining closure for the Hanzo trilogy

The final chapter in the Hanzo the Razor trilogy provides fitting closure for this entertaining series of samuraisploitation. Inoue replaces Yasuzu Masumura (Blind Beast, Red Angel, Manji) in the director's chair, but the style is pretty much the same, perhaps due to Shintaro Katsu serving as the producer, apart from the titular antihero.

Hanzo uncovers a female ghost who is guarding treasure hidden in the bottom of the lake. Of course, Hanzo being Hanzo, he's not put off by the fact she's a ghost, so he proceeds to rape... ahem, interrogate her, using the now familiar revolving net device. The plot takes through a series of blind monks who also doubletime as loansharks, corrupt officials, promiscuous wives and the necessary hack and slash. Hanzo's superior officer, Onishi, and his two servants, provide the typical comedic notes, and generally, it's business as usual.

Significantly less convoluted and easier to follow than the first (which is all over the place and a bit of a mess), less stylish, dramatic and bloody than the second (arguably the finest in the Hanzo series), but still entertaining and worthwhile on its own merits. Complete with trademark training sequences, the obligatory rape, swordfights, and a mystery Hanzo is called upon to investigate, this will ultimately satisfy the fans.