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Yakuza Justice: Erotic Code Of Honour (Japan, 1973)

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This film has several titles but I'm just rolling with Yakuza Justice m'kay. This is a flick that really surprised me, coming from a director of mainly pink films ,Tatsumi Kumashiro, it is a merging of crafted skin cinema with the brutality of a yakuza piece. The story begins twenty odd years in the past when a monk fishes a dead pregnant lady out of a river. She gives birth to a baby who he takes to the monastery and is subsequently raised as a monk himself, gaining the name Seigen. He is a good monk until he rescues a young woman from some thugs and promptly shows he thanks by shagging him silly. This leaves Seigen rather confused. Even more confused when he discovers her father, a mob boss, is his dad too by different mothers. This drives him nuts and he quits the monks, descending into a life of crime and vice. He fucks whores, kills gangsters, gets inked and broods about his half sister. All the while he is haunted by the monk that fished his mother out of the river and by...