The Tokugawa shogun can't get it up, and when he does, he cums too soon
- so he needs a sex manual that's currently in the hands of a doctor
opposed to the Tokugawa clan. So the shogun hires four female ninjas and
his trusted swordsman Iyoma to get the manual. The doctor meanwhile hires
a handful of male ninjas led by the mysterious Gunki and hands the manual
over to his daughter Yukina for safeguarding. What makes this whole affair
so delicate is that Iyoma and Yukine are secretly lovers. Apart from that
nobody understands why lives should be lost just because of a sex manual,
but now the two sides are at war, somebody is to lose face should there
not be a fight. So Yukine and Gunki make up some sort of plan to preserve
their honour by keeping their manual and still passing on the relevant
information to the enemy - by raping the female ninjas just as described
in the book! The female ninjas are very receptive to the sexual
teachings of the manual, but have the nasty habit to kill their opponents
afterwards, whereupon Gunki kills each of them. So in the end, only Gunki,
Yukine and Iyoma are left, and now Gunki reveals himself as a traitor, who
wanted to get rid of both the female ninjas and his own ninjas to
ultimately hand the manual over to the enemy, the Tokugawa shogun, and
receive a high position at his court in exchange. However, Yukine and
Iyoma manage to kill the traitor, then they marry because they figure this
way it is possible to hand the manual over to the shogun without anybody
losing face. However, the manuial does little to help the shogun, because
his lovemaking ways miss the most important ingredient: love ... One
can't but admit, the (politically incorrect) concepts this film is based
on are great: Passing on information via rape, female ninjas using
their sexual organs as deadly weapons, and so on. However, the film as a
whole is less than the sum of its ingredients as all of its noble efforts
are marred by a less than brilliant story that features a few unnecessary
plottwists too many to remain interesting and thus comes off as
ridiculously convoluted when it should have been straight-forward. That
said, the film is still good fun, it just could have been better!
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