(by makoto64 on 20 February 2007)

This is an excellent entry in the ever excellent "Nemuri Kyoshiro" aka "Sleepy Eyes of Death" series which continues/re-imagines a theme and character from "Sword of Seduction", (SEOD #4), of the completely mad disfigured Princess Kiku, who seeks to exact her revenge upon Kyoshiro for "pretending" to have sex with her one fateful night - watch and learn. Anyway, "The Princess' Mask" is one of the very best films in a series that rivaled "Zatoichi" in popularity throughout Japan. There's this one scene with a crazy girl who walks around town humming to herself and displaying a sign that says "I was raped by Nemuri Kyoshiro". When he follows her to a creepy rundown shack to find out what her glitch is, she wants to see Kyoshiro's "katana", (if you know what I mean). Being the total "Ho" that he is, (which the last reviewer would have no idea about being the total "Aho" that he is), Kyoshiro starts making out with the nutty nymphomaniac, and while she's tasting his tonsils her foot slowly slides across the floor to monkey-grab a thin, innocent looking bamboo reed which she quickly passes up to her hands and pulls out a thin, rapier-type sword hidden inside and starts slashing with intensity at our unarmed and disarmed hero. The crazy chick turns out to be a cunning assassin, the room in the dilapidated shack turns out to be a cage, and the whole thing turns out to be an elaborate trap with the masked Princess laughing like a loon as her guards start chucking spears at the trapped Kyoshiro... And that's all just in one scene! So, don't listen to fools who know nothing. Go get this DVD, (if you can), and dig the insane eye candy-colored world created by the great Raizo Ichikawa and Kenji Misumi of the original red-haired samurai, (obvious inspiration for Anime character Rurouni Kenshin), and "Son of the Black Mass", Nemuri Kyoshiro - O.G. Jidai-geki at its peak of perfection!