The movie is about an assassin called Izo who gets crucified in the 19th century, instead of dying he starts time travelling and goes to modern day Tokyo. After that it is about 2 hours of Izo killing everyone (I mean everyone) in hopes of attaining spiritual retribution. He kills samurai, yakuza, vampires, children, teachers, monks, woman carrying his child,… Takishi Kitano has a small role as the prime minister. Also there is stock footage of WW2. Random footage of the acid-folk singer Kazuki Tomakawa (check him out, he is incredible and probably the best thing about this movie). There is a final show down with mother earth.
Apparently the whole thing is philosophical and some people seem to like this movie because of that. I just say that it is pointless and mostly a guy killing other people with his sword in ridiculous ways for 2 hours (if you think that, that is cool, it gets boring surprisingly fast). It is madness but unfortunately not of the good kind.
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