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  Review by Lou (rhymes with wow!) ★★★½ 8

  A baby birthed from a dead woman, a bit of the ol' yakuza bloodshed and copious amounts of sexual violence (with penetration by gun being a nasty standout). My fourth Tatsumi Kamushiro roman porno did not disappoint.

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  Review by Bob McQueen ★★★★

  I'm honestly not sure what "code" was followed here.

  So, there's a Buddhist priest fishing cuz he's hungry, he catches a dead pregnant body and decides to help the unborn child be born, enter: Seigen.

  Seigen likes working at the Buddhist temple, likes cleaning out the toilets after the monks "expel Buddha, Buddha is shit" when he comes across Misako who's trying to honor the anniversary her mother's passing. Seigen throws some buckets of excrement at some yakuza as he runs away and makes Misako "feel it to her bones" if you catch my meaning. Meanwhile, the father of Misako and the head of the local yakuza reveals to her that Seigen is actually: her half brother. So begins an…

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  Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★★½

  Stairway to heaven. Pinku/Yakuza/Buddhist parable, sort of Tatsumi Kumashiro’s Running on Karma, only better and weirder. Grace transmutes into flesh. Sin begets curiosity. Men ritualistic punishes himself. A machine gun releases. Water cleanses. Innocence gets ruined. Salvation can only be achieved through embracing wickedness.

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  Review by Brandon Montgomery ★★

  Because I was unfamiliar with the director's work, and because the runtime of both films is pretty short (both this and Woods Are Wet clock in at well under an hour and a half) I decided to watch a sort of double bill of Kumashiro films, starting with the previously mentioned title and then following it up with this, Yakuza Justice.

  It starts out interesting enough and with a unique concept; A Buddhist priest abandoning his life of asceticism and religious devotion upon meeting and falling in love with the local oyabun's daughter. This leads him to join the yakuza under the woman's father, and his new morals (or lack of morals) are quickly put to the test.

  Then in the last half it makes this completely weird turn and you're left wondering what the hell you just watched.

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  Review by bruno ★★★★★

  The film of pleasures, or an erotic learning. It conservates lots of japane mythological reasoning but goes beyond the limits of male epidermis to achieve karma enlightenment. The world is not yours, is Seigen’s.

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  Review by Blaine ★★★½ 3

  Tragic, stylish, and perverted monk-turned-gangster trash. It’s nothing toooo special, but it’s goes along at a great pace and has some really standout scenes.

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  Review by Ed Küpfer ★★★

  Pinku about a monk's descent into violence and debauchery—all out of love for his sister. I think. I wasn't too clear on the plot. Pretty sleazy.

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  Review by MrPerkins ★★★

  One of those movies full of butterflies and Buddhist monks and incest magic and gangsters and waterfall sex and gun rape and multiple scenes depicting childbirth and you can't tell what century it's supposed to be. You know, cinephile shit.

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  Review by CWL ★★½

  Despite the title, this movie is not focused on a goddess, but on a guy, Seigen. We first meet him as a baby, yanked out of a pregnant river corpse in one of the film's best scenes. Afterwards, he grows up in a Buddhist monastery, then falls prey to the secular life after meeting a city gal named Misako. It's clear from the title that this was intended to capitalize on the pinky violence trend. And perhaps it shares some elements, although generally this is more of a lukewarm action flick. The conflict between Buddhist restraint and criminal debauchery would seem to offer lots of storytelling potential, but a lot of this is dull and talky, punctuated by occasional violence and lots of obtrusive censoring. I'd put this on the bottom of your to-do list if you're delving into the whole pinky violence thing.