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Director:
Teruo Ishii
Writers:
San Kaji (screenplay)
Kazuo Koike (comic)
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Release Date:
1973 (Japan) more
Genre:
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Plot:
In PORNO PERIOD DRAMA, Tetsuro Tanba plays a nihilistic ronin who faces down the "Clan of the Forgotten Eight"... more | add synopsis
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To die is hell, but to live, is also hell. more

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Also Known As:
Boachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight (International: English title) (original subtitled version)
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Runtime:
81 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Company:
Toei Company more

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To die is hell, but to live, is also hell., 14 March 2008
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Author: ickystay from United States

Bohachi Bushido is the story of an ex-samurai named Shiro. Believing life and death to be the same hell, he tries to kill himself by jumping into a river. A very hard man to kill, Shiro is revived by members of the Clan of the Forgotten Eight- an organization of men and women who have discarded god, servitude, loyalty, trust, propriety, justice, conscience, and shame. The Forgotten Eight run Japan's cruel sex industry and they recruit Shiro to rid them of their competition. Shiro agrees to work for them, more out of boredom than any real convictions.

So, we have a bad ass samurai running through the sexual underworld of 17th century Edo directed by Teruro Ishii for Toei studios in 1973. That means blood, lots of nudity, perhaps some misogyny, a couple moments of brilliant cinematography, and maybe just a little more nudity. Not a great movie, but definitely a lot of fun!

Tetsuro Tamba plays a wonderful "Shiro", both pained and bemused by the hell of life. Gorou Ibuki as "Kesazo Shirakubi", the Bohachi second in command, has a great chemistry with Tamba. Ibuki would pretty much play the "Shiro" role in another Bohachi film a few years later as a similar (but sicker) life loathing ex-samurai in "Bohachi Bushido: Saburai" with the lovely Reiko Ike as a pistol wielding Bohachi woman.

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