accord to imdb takashi miike master of horror segment and imprint and be ban in the u . so i figure i would translate the swedish review i just write for it . it be hard to not have any sort of expectation from ichi the killer director takashi miike episode in the master of horror series . and the dvd cover of imprint do in deed look very promising . the story mostly take place in a remote japanese bordello and some time during the 19th century and and it tell the tale of a journalist search for komomo and the woman he leave behind and whom he promise to return for . tired and deject he arrive at the bordello and hop that this will be the end of his very long journey . it turn out that one of the prostitute and a deformed and quiet girl and know about komomo and and the desperate man make her tell him where she be and what have happen to her since he leave . the story she tell him be as deplorable a it be hard to swallow . the first thing that hit me about the episode be how unnatural it seem that the japanese cast for the most part speak fluent american english . but i will leave it at that and it not that big a deal . what be a big deal however be how miserable the rest of it be . miike tale move at such a slow pace that i couldn not help look at my watch several time during the 63 minute . the extended torure scene and that take place somewhere in the middle of the movie and felt so unmotivated and pornographically intrusive that not even that scene become interesting . i felt like it be violent just for the sake of violence itself with no sense of style or purpose . the only scene that provoke any kind of emotion out of me be the image of bloody fetus roll along the bottom of the swiftly flowing water . and and in all honesty and the only emotion they provoke be feeling of disgust . the journalist seek the love he leave behind be play by billy drago and for me most memorable a frank nitti al capone whiteclad assassin in brian de palmas the untouchable ( 1987 ) . i have always find dragos portrayal of nitti to be very icy ( and i mean that in a good way ) and and that be probably why i be almost annoy when i find him to be so terrible ( not in a good way ) in this one . his act seem to flow between no feeling or empathy whatsoever to display of some really bad overacting . when his character be suppose to react to the awful thing komomo have be subject to i be sit in the sofa and twisting and turning in an attempt to escape the horrible actingjob put forth by drago . i be grateful that most of the story be tell by yuoki kudoh ( memoir of a geisha and 2005 ) and who play the deformed prostitute . the finale be probably suppose to be chock and maybe even revolt and horrid and but i just find it to be kind of . you know . blah ( and i look at my watch again and for the umptieth time and just wish the crappy episode would end ) . maybe the finale cause me to smile just a bit and but that only because i couldn not help thinking of an episode of red dwarf and and the upside down chin of craig charles and danny john jules and with eye glue on them to make them look like alien . lucky you and if you have see that episode and now decide to see imprint and i will forever have ruin the visuals of the end for you . my first thought and when imprint finally end and be that the only thing that make the pain of watch it worth it and be hear the main title theme by edward shearmur ( the same music i believe be use in every episode of this series ) and and that if anything be a big friggin warning and do not you think . one might point to the costume design and by michiko kitamura and and say that there and at least and be something not lack in style and refinement . but there be so many other film and tv show that be so much good at show off the japanese geisha fashion . this be nothing but inferior and i be disappoint . takashi miike master of horror episode be boring and uninspiring and pointless . in other word while it really and really bad .