Vol. 2: The story is pretty much not there. A boy is beaten by a gang for money, and when he tries to find help they kidnap and beat them. Unlike the first part of the series, there is more gore and blood in this movie than you can shake a stick at. There is rape, torture, and death at a premium and you are in the first row.

Vol. 3: The last chapter is about a perverted boy named Kiku. While searching for flies in the garbage, he finds some pantyhose and other personal items belonging to a local women. He starts to have a crush on a woman he knows only through her garbage. He collects parts of her old day planners and starts to stalk her. Slowly he loses all contact with reality.

In Conclusion: This is one of the darkest things I have seen in the course of my life. By the time the credits rolled I felt terrible to be a human. When I had finally finished the series, it proved humans were less than trash. We could take something that meant something to someone and destroy it without a thought or care. “We are incomplete corpses moving through life to become perfect corpses.”

The first film is the closest to an actual story, basically it's your standard revenge flick, with the most well-rounded characters found in the trilogy, and it actually manages to evoke some sympathy and maybe understanding from the viewer.

The second is the most violent and unrelenting of the three, and possibly my favorite. Not, necessarily because it is so violent and cruel, but simply because it had the power to unsettle me.

The third film is the most disgusting of the three and is the one most likely to exercise your gag reflex. Not necessarily violent, just perhaps more of an intimate look at the human body and it's functions than I would have liked.

Although all of these films are virtually plotless (with the exception of the first), I must give them credit for the fact that each of them managed to evoke such a strong physical and/or emotional reaction from me. These films aren't exactly what one would call "entertaining", but the fact that they can affect the viewer in such a tremendous way has to be worth something.