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The Sword of Doom: Directed by Kihachi Okamoto. With Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Yûzô Kayama, Yôko Naitô. Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.
- (12K)
- Action, Drama
- Kihachi Okamoto
- 1966-07-01
25 February 1966. ( 1966-02-25) (Japan) Running time. 119 minutes [1] Country. Japan [1] The Sword of Doom, known in Japan as Dai-bosatsu Tōge (大菩薩峠, "Great Bodhisattva Pass"), is a 1966 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Kihachi Okamoto and starring Tatsuya Nakadai. It is based on the serial novel of the same title by Kaizan Nakazato.
Mar 4, 2021 · The Sword of Doom (1966) Video Item Preview ... movies. The Sword of Doom (1966) by Kihachi Okamoto. Publication date 1966 Topics film, movie, cinema, japanese cinema
- 121 min
- 26.6K
- wkk643
The Sword of Doom is an epic samurai film with a wonderfully detailed plot and characters and some of the finest, longest and most epic in every sense of the word set pieces!
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- Tatsuya Nakadai
- Kihachi Okamoto
- Drama
The Sword of Doom. Tatsuya Nakadai and Toshiro Mifune star in the story of a wandering samurai who exists in a maelstrom of violence. A gifted swordsman plying his craft during the turbulent final days of shogunate rule in Japan, Ryunosuke (Nakadai) kills without remorse or mercy. It is a way of life that ultimately leads to madness.
- Ryunosuke Tsukue
The story follows the life of Ryunosuke Tsukue (Tatsuya Nakadai), an amoral samurai and a master swordsman with an unorthodox style. Ryunosuke is first seen when he kills an elderly Buddhist pilgrim who he finds praying for death. He appears to have no feeling. Later, he kills an opponent in self-defense in a fencing competition that was ...
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Shot in beautiful black and white scope, Sword of Doom captures all of its violence and moral ambiguity in an aesthetically stunning presentation; though Japanese cinema was about to enter a more frenzied and stylized stage, this 1966 production falls in line - at least in terms of pacing and presentation - with the Kurosawa films of the period ...
