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Three stories set in the Genroku Edo period. Each story has nudity, mild softcore sex scenes and some torture. All are very dark stories. The first story is very slow. Could have been less than half it's length. The third is the best story and had some excitement missing from the other two. One scene of one story is a bit of stolen plot from a James Bond movie.

The first story was too slow for me. The second was good. The third was excellent. If you deduct the first, then I'd up my rating to a 7.

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