ok and jut like others say and this movie be really hard to categorize or even to explain . but could this really be bad . when you first watch izo and you really wander who who and what be happen . just relax and stay calm . it kinda like go on a movie ride with nietzsche and some lsd . izo and to my sen and be a nihilist tale of a guy loosing be humanity have he go against everything that make humankind civilized . he slash through religion and political power and so on until nothing be leave but himself . it a philosophical essay drawn on a samurai flick background . if your look for something like lone wolf and cub or samurai reincarnation and youre in for a disappointment . even though the movie contain some great fighting scene and they seem to me more like a symbol and a way for izo to scream be rage and be rebellion against humanity . have the movie go and you even see izo loosing be facial trait to become more and more inhuman . a monster of some kind . monster because he be leave all social convention behind and refuse to submit himself to any kind of structure . no power be legitimate to him and but be own free and untamed will . have i say earlier and try to see it like a nietzsche statement about how fake and hypocrite our whole society his . about how we live in a lie that we take for a fundamental truth and how easily it would all crumble if we only free our will and mind . chronologicly and the movie be also hard to get at first . my opinion about the period jump back and forth be simply a statement about how society be always structure the same way . base on lie and power and human power . and only our eternal submission to those power confer them the power to rule our body and mind . izo take all that away and cast humanity ( even his ) away for pure free untamed willpower . so if you sit for the izo ride and make sure you bring an open mind and not your grand mother . this be one movie you would not forget and even if you hate the hell out of it .