The Human Slayer

This film (drama)Also known as人斬り，is aJapanProducerwomen sex，At1969Released in year 。The dialogue language isJapanese，Current Douban rating8.1(For reference only)。

This film is set against the historical backdrop of the Japanese figure Hanjō Hanpeita, revered as a god by lower class samurai, who initiated the Tenchū. It tells the story of his devoted follower, "Human Slayer Ikuzō." Hanjō Hanpeita (played by Tatsuya Nakadai) established the Tosa Loyalist Party in Edo. Ikuzō (played by Shintarō Katsu) joined the Loyalist Party and met Tana Shinbei (played by Yukio Mishima) the following year. The two became the prominent "human slayers" of the Loyalist Party, operating behind the scenes during the Meiji Restoration. Okada Ikuzō is uneducated, speaks coarsely, is rough and reckless, and has a fondness for drink and women, yet is an expert killer who obeys Hanjō Hanpeita without question. The only exception is when he becomes a bodyguard for Katsu Kaishū at the introduction of Sakamoto Ryōma (played by Yujiro Ishihara). As the Tosa domain began to suppress the Tosa Loyalist Party, leader Hanjō Hanpeita was arrested, followed by the arrest of Ikuzō. On the eleventh day of the intercalary fifth month in the first year of Keio (1865), Hanjō Hanpeita was ordered to commit seppuku, while Ikuzō and eight others were sentenced to execution. Ikuzō, feeling resentful that he was not allowed to commit seppuku, felt that even in death he was not given equal treatment, leaving behind a farewell verse: "君が為め尽くす心は水の泡，消えにし後は澄みわたる空” ("My heart devoted to you vanishes like a bubble in the clear sky"). Additionally, one of the stars of this film, Yukio Mishima, committed seppuku a year later as an act of patriotism. This extreme incident caused the film "The Human Slayer" to be silenced for a long period.