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If you can ignore Urotsukidoji II (and honestly, you don't even have to see it in order to understand this one), this might be a good movie to watch once or twice. I don't think that the Urotsukidoji series will ever make it back to the quality of Urotsukidoji I, but how many sequels ever reach the level of the original? Working from the miserable leave off from Urotsukidoji II, I think Urotsukidoji III does a pretty good job.

The movie takes up where #1 left off, Nagumo has destroyed the three worlds, merging them into one world which is full of war and hatred. In the first scene, the Cho'jin is being born early, and calls to Amano Jyaku to protect him. The scene then switches to the rest of the world. As one might expect from all of the inter-species rape going on in the other two films, there is now a race of half-breeds that do not really belong to any of the three original worlds. These people are enslaved by a cyborg named Ceasar, who has a beautiful young daughter who he is way too obsessed with. This girl, Elector, wants nothing more than to see the lower world (you know this means trouble in Urotsukidoji).

Ceasar is hunting for a great fighter named Kyoho, one who is supposed to have the power to destroy the Cho'jin, in order to use "his" power to rule the world (of course it never enters his mind that Kyoho might be a female infant). In order to do this, he forces a drunken, womanizing, and very powerful half-breed named Buju to help him, but Buju winds up escaping, with the help of Elector, and taking her to the lower world.

The development in this part of the movie is excellent and most of the sex is consensual, albeit a little violent. The focus is really on the plot, which moves forward in understandable, but not predictable steps. As Elector and Buju move through the world, they begin to fall in love, and have consensual sex after which they find an infant crying in the temple where they have stopped. Were the movie to continue on this path, I would have felt much better about it, but much like the transition from #1 to #2, the movie begins to tumble downhill.

Ceasar captures Elector back in a battle with Nagumo, Buju and Amano Jyaku, who is essentially worthless in battle much like the second movie, but I at least give him credit for pushing his girlfriend off his lap in order to try. The infant Kyoho is also captured by Munchausen, also called "Faust" in this movie, and brought to the "demon womb" in order to resurrect a demon (presumably Takeaki from the last movie, but this is never made clear).

All the while there is a revolution brewing amongst Ceasars captives, and there is good plot development here, but it is almost insignificant against the extremely violent, painful looking, stomach churning, deviant (I will leave that to your imagination) rape scenes, which are more times than not gang rape scenes. I understand that the sickness and violence in this world is being portrayed, and I understand that there is contrast between the consensual scene with Elector and Buju and the repeated rapes of Elector later in the movie, but I think that the scenes were too long, too graphic, and showed things that I am even unwilling to mention in this review. Personally I found the end of this movie to be one of the most sickening, anti-erotic things I have ever seen, taking so much away from the plot that the promising start of this movie is nearly destroyed. And I am still waiting for a woman that knows how to fight back!

To add to the horror and degradation of the characters, Elector chooses to remain with the father who repeatedly raped her in one of the most horrible manners of sexual assault I have seen and turns away from Buju who has fought to save her. "I cannot leave my father's side." What?! Wait a minute here - is this implying that sexual abuse of a child is all right, that she should forgive her father? It is way too late to redeem Ceasar's character, and the authors should have let him rot in his grave rather than try to do the right thing at the end of his life. But off she goes in a space shuttle (wherever that came from in a destroyed world with no technology to speak of other than assault rifles) with her father's still-living disembodied head and Buju takes Kyoho and a band of people he has met along the way off to see the Cho'jin.

This movie had its good points and it's bad. If I had thought to fast forward through the rape scenes from the beginning I am sure I would have enjoyed this movie thoroughly, the art and the plot were good. However, taking the entirety of this movie into account, I cannot say it was excellent because of the true sickness of the second half.

Recommended: Yes

Viewing Format: DVD
Video Occasion: Fit for Friday Evening
Suitability For Children: Not suitable for Children of any age