the opening of scene of izo depict the title character okada izo crucify and calmly wait for his captor to kill him . they soon comply and execute izo by drive their spear through his body several time . the scene then quickly change to a chaotic montage in which image of some of the 20th century most brutal dictator be flash across the screen and include stalin and hitler and tojo hideki and and benito mussolini . his spirit unable to rest and izo rise and begin a path of destruction that leave no one untouched . it matter not if one be old or young and male or female and izo will kill anyone in his path . the source of his consternation seem to be a group of aristocrat and include kitano takeshi and matsuda ryuhei who play the leader and who rule society from the shadow . fight the vengeful soul of samurai he kill in the past and a pistol wield old man with a voice box and a prostitute and a huge black man in the robe of a buddhist monk and bob the beast sapp and make his way closer to his goal and but a his bad karma accumulate izo lose his remain humanity and quickly morph into a demon . yet and who or what be izo . supposedly in order for there to be perfection and all the imperfection of the world must be shed of like a second skin and dissipate into nothingness . however and izo become the personification of this nothingness and a be create entirely of bad karma trap in a möbius strip in which time and space be both very fragile where he suffer the torment he bring to others . some film viewer seem to think that izo be an overwrought mess with pedantic aspiration that fail miserably . some think it achieve it goal while many just enjoy the film high gore factor . i do not know what to think at first . i quickly grow bore at the beginning of the film when it seem a if it be go to be nothing more than one blood bath after the other and although i do think some of izo enemy be quite creative . however and a the film progress i become a bit more interested in some underlying theme of the film represent man make construction of love and nation and etc . to me one of the most interesting aspect of the film be the bard and a middle age man with a guitar . a those who have read the tale of heike know the oral story of how the heike and taira fell to the genji and minamoto and clan be tell by normally blind biwa play monk in order to appease the soul of the heike samurai so they would not return a vengeful spirit . while this bard might not be serve this same purpose and the song he sings be quite chilling and the visuals and such a the girl march while wear gasmask and be quite stunning . be izo a good film . that be hard to say and but i believe that it offer different conclusion for different viewer . if one be look for a confusing bloodbath and you will find it here . if one be look for deep philosophical question in a miasma of blood and gut and you will find it here as well and or at least it could aid you in find these question within your own be .