Somehow I don’t feel bad about being completely incapable of summarising the plot of this one, nor about the fact I watched the American dubbed version. I was actually happy to find that the copy I had was the dubbed version, lol – my first knowledge of this movie came from Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Vol 2, and when you see The Bride and B.B. watching this movie and hear that kid’s haunting voiceover, you really just wanna be watching it with them, lol … and that’s just the kind of movie this will forever be to me. It is simply awesome to have on in the background. The violence is beautiful – there’s one shot where a guy gets his head chopped off and it has that ridiculous spray of blood like Tarantino rips off in the first Kill Bill, yet against the backdrop of a man with a child in his arms and a sunset it is anything but ridiculous … it reminded me of the surreal, stomach-churning beauty of Lavinia’s death in Julie Taymor’s Titus. If you love martial arts / Asian cinema, I don’t need to tell you to see this since you probably already have … but if you liked Kill Bill or like highly stylised violence, it’s highly recommended.

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