Razor 2: The Snare (1973)
"Goyôkiba: Kamisori Hanzô jigoku zeme" (original title)

Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the ... See full summary »

Director:

Yasuzô Masumura

Writers:

Kazuo Koike (comic), Yasuzô Masumura

Stars:

Shintarô Katsu, Keiko Aikawa, Kazuko Ineno

Cast

Credited cast:
Shintarô Katsu	...	Hanzo 'The Razor' Itami
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Keiko Aikawa
Kazuko Ineno
Keizô Kani'e
Shin Kishida
Hôsei Komatsu
Toshio Kurosawa	...	Junai Mikoshiba
Daigo Kusano
Kô Nishimura	...	Magobei "Snake" Onishi
Kei Satô	...	Shobei Hamajima

Storyline

Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the treasurer, who wants him dead. He finds a young woman dead following an abortion, and he enters a temple without permission looking for evidence. He tortures and then sexually assaults the temple's priestess to get information. He's then assigned to protect the mint from a notorious thief. There he closets himself in the bedroom of the mint's mistress. He waits. The thief arrives - but other crimes are afoot. Devalued currency, white slavery, and government corruption lead Hanzo to one conclusion.

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Plot Keywords:

abortion | second in trilogy | rape | female nudity | exploitation | 

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Genres:

Action | Drama

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Details

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

11 August 1973 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Hanzo the Razor: The Snare

Company Credits

Production Co:

Katsu Production Co. Ltd., Toho Company

Technical Specs

Runtime:

89 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Followed by Razor 3: Who's Got the Gold? (1974)

User Reviews

if anything there is more blood and flesh on display in this one

More of the same in this sequel to Sword of Justice and it's just hard to believe it's not the same director. Much of the cast is the same, Hanzo is certainly the same and much of the torture, both the bloody sort and the sexual sort are the same and it still all works. We get a lady suffering the blocks this time and a reprise of the lady in the net lowering onto the big man's big.....

There is enough that's different to hold the attention and if anything there is more blood and flesh on display in this one. Helped once more by super cinematography, direction and editing, this is another fine mix of activities, plus even more disregard for the Japanese tendency to put up with almost anything for the sake of order and tradition.