While the movie was not in the genre of American made Asian films it was within the per view of asian art films. It told a story. Period. It was not hentai, which it sounded like a lot of the reviewers prior to this expected it to be. It was a filmed version of a stage show. An asian version of one of their broadway features. Nothing like the American Broadway films. Unless you have a taste for actual Kabuki stage acting and actual asian filmography where they have more subtle underlying meanings to everything filmed. You will hate the film. It is likened to opera in that aspect. You either love it or hate it. If you are a fan of the newer Kung fu Theatre and Hentai films. You will most likely hate this type of filmography.

For those who hate this movie, most of your complaints are superficial.Rigs Man, what made you think this would be "that kind" of movie?Guy below, that wasn't an innuendo and the type of wheel chair that "The Teacher" was in is built for speed.Tom Tompkins, you said a bunch of nothing about the movie just that its bad. Also; Zatoichi, Yojimbo, Love-Com, the Returners, Dead or Alive: Final (I thought it was happy), there are plenty of Japanese movies with happy endings. Maybe you watch too many Yakuza and Samurai films.Jeremy Hsieh, ever thought that maybe this movie is where No More Heroes got its premise? But, at least you admit that the movie is too foreign for you to understand.Jim Hoffman, I doubt they were going for depth. I think they were just trying to tell a story in a stylized, artsy kind of way. Also, what movie were you watching? She wasn't trying to be No. 1, at the beginning "Stray Cat" said she doesn't mind being No. 3. They later hint at her rising through the ranks inadvertently. She just happens to be good at killing.RT, what the hell are you talking about? Yes, that's right, I'm complaining about someone who claims to like the movie. But what does Hollywood have to do with the movie? What does happy-endings have to do with the movie? You seem to focus too much on why people might hate the movie that you don't explain why they should like it.Micky Micklon, this just isn't your kind of movie. BTW, its suppose to feel like a stage show because its suppose to feel like a stage show.Steven G., why are you comparing those two movies with this one? They are nothing alike. (BTW, I love both those movies. Really simple and cool action movies that don't try to be anything but cool action movies.)I would continue but I don't feel like it. As for me, I liked this movie. Maybe no where near the greatest movie but its simple, nice, inspirational and very stylish. Though the film might be too foreign for most viewers.

I watched this when Hulu first posted it months ago but before it had subtitles, which seemed like a moronic move to begin with. Why post a foreign film for an english speaking audience and leave it without subtitles? Anyway, I thought it looked pretty bad but maybe I was missing something because there was no closed captioning. Hulu has since fixed the language issue, so I watched it again. It was actually worse with the proper dialogue. The action scenes were boring. There's no sex scenes. There's nudity about an hour in (check the heat map if you're impatient) but it's nothing you'd want to see. There's really nothing to make this watchable even as a B-movie.

15 mins in and I can't watch anymore. The silly lesbian innuendo at the beginning. The ridiculous Speedy Gozales in a wheelchair. I'm sure this was cutting edge cinema for Japan, but by U.S. standards this absolutely sucks.In fairness, I did not sit through the whole movie. Perhaps is suddenly stopped sucking at minute 16. But I doubt it.