The vengeful Retsudo (a deliciously venomous portrayal by Minoru Oki) assigns his lethal only remaining daughter Kaori (lovely Junko Hitomi) to kill Ogami (the redoubtable Tomisaburo Wakayama) and his son Daigoro (adorable Akihiro Tomikawa). When Kaori fails to accomplish her mission, three deceased warriors are resurrected to take care of both Ogami and Daigoro once and for all.
Director Yoshiyuki Kuroda and writer Tsutoma Nakamura totally go for broke with this enjoyably outrageous final entry in the series: This time we've got an astronomical triple digit body count, oodles of hysterically gory blood-spraying violence, a grim take-no-prisoners tone (innocent folks who help out Ogami and son all meet brutal untimely fates), striking widescreen cinematography, a cool supernatural bent, several neat gimmicks (the baby cart is equipped with a gatling gun!), a funky-grooving score that sounds like it belongs more in a 70's blaxploitation flick, and, best of all, a wild pull-out-all-the-stops epic climatic battle sequence set on a snow swept mountain in which Ogami takes out over a hundred opponents. A satisfying berserk closer to this on the money series.
Director Yoshiyuki Kuroda and writer Tsutoma Nakamura totally go for broke with this enjoyably outrageous final entry in the series: This time we've got an astronomical triple digit body count, oodles of hysterically gory blood-spraying violence, a grim take-no-prisoners tone (innocent folks who help out Ogami and son all meet brutal untimely fates), striking widescreen cinematography, a cool supernatural bent, several neat gimmicks (the baby cart is equipped with a gatling gun!), a funky-grooving score that sounds like it belongs more in a 70's blaxploitation flick, and, best of all, a wild pull-out-all-the-stops epic climatic battle sequence set on a snow swept mountain in which Ogami takes out over a hundred opponents. A satisfying berserk closer to this on the money series.