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Bloody tale of a Ronin gone mad , entrusting all faith of humanity into an evil sword that he uses to chop down anybody standing in his way. As he treks his path of merciless slayings he gathers allies, enemies, and vengeful spirits along the way: a pair of pilgrims and a compassionate thief, the fornicated wife from a slain husband and a brother seeking revenge, group of masterless samurai strongarming Shogunate officials, and the rival master swordsman whom only swings his sword for justice and honor - contradictory to the main character's beliefs.Typical villainous movie . Simple plot filled with tension and evil deeds, excellent choreographed sword fights. Supreme body count for the era of Japanese Golden Cinema. Original in the killer samurai genre.

Viewed on DVD. Editing /continuity = four (4) stars; choreography = three (3) stars; . Director 's Kihachi Okamoto's melodramatic, confusing mash up depicting mid 19th Century Samurai life and times. Most actors and actresses are made up to look too much alike (name tags would really help!) and inter-scene continuity is often nonexistent (what is plotted in a scene may never be executed in later ones). The Director appears to have employed EVERY available Samurai stuntman in Kyoto (and a number of semi-pros to boot!) who keep reappearing and dying over and over again. Lead actor (Tatsuya Nakadai) plays your standard-issue Samurai sociopath whose character alternates between brooding and slashing. (Toshiro Mifune makes a light-weight cameo appearance.) Slashing scenes (including a prolonged attack on bamboo curtains (cheap props apparently substituting for mirrors?) by the lead protagonist) are way too long and, ultimately, become comic (intentional?) and boring. Choreography needs some work. Stuntmen in scenes of 20 (or more) sword swingers are often shown slashed and dying without being touched by a sword (a sword is just waived in their general direction!). Cinematography (wide screen, black and white) and scene lighting are fine. Same for sound, score, and subtitles. Skip this one unless you are seriously suffering from insomnia. WILLIAM FLANIGAN, PhD.

Sword of Doom / Daibosatsu Pass is a fundamentally tonal movie about an inhumanly isolated individual, fencing master Ryunosuke Tsukue, an ostracised man who has become an island, or rather a jagged reef, on which he allows people to be dashed. I think it's quite easy to write him down as either an evil or sociopathic man, however I think the film deals with more complex issues.Ryunosuke is brimful of disdain. His hatred for the way people are, of how compromised and unworthy people become in order to fit in, is seen in several places in the film. Indeed Ryunosuke's exile arises out of his refusal to compromise and betray his code of fencing for the greater good. Many see his actions as provocative, but, like his fencing technique, Kogen Ittō-ryū, Ryunosuke is fundamentally passive until pushed. I have read people interpreting Ryunosuke's actions before his duel with Bunnojo Utsuki as designed to provoke his opponent, however in my opinion he was merely acting out of contempt for others' capacity for dishonour; contempt for one woman's easy virtue, and another man's illegal tactic.His worldview reaches perfect expression during his militia's meeting with Lord Kamio, who earns a degree of respect from Ryunosuke, when he honestly and brazenly admits to the audience of hypocritical fanatics he controls, that he is not interested in politics. Serizawa's faction of the Shinsengumi, which Ryunosuke joins, were known as the wolves of Mibu, and are shown in this film as being ambitious agitators operating under an arbitrary flag, with only nominal political pretensions. Incidentally, Serizawa Kamo, and Kondo Isami, both characters in this film, were actual historic leaders of the Shinsen Group.Every killing Ryunosuke performs in the film can be linked to the death wish of his victim. So despite the ease in which he cleaves flesh, I don't see him as an anarchical madman, more an amplifier of negative behaviour, a quasi-religious force.The movie has supernatural elements, too late Ryunosuke begins to realise that his life is filled with rather too many coincidences and that he is being driven mad by his own nihilism and its karmic response. Sword of Doom is a hideous film, with a superb central performance from Tatsuya Nakadai. Watch it with the awe that it deserves.

In feudal Japan,Ryunosuke (Tatsuya Nakadai)is a disgraced samurai and master swordsman with a very special technique, is due to have a challenge duel at his fencing school, his challenger Bunnojo Utsuki is to become a new sword master at the fencing school, but if he loses, he will be disgraced and unable to take his position. Bunnojo's wife Ohama pleads with Ryunosuke to throw the match, offering her virtue in return, which he accepts, despite this he still kills her husband after he makes an illegal fencing move, in a fit of anger after learning of his wife's infidelities. Some years later Ryunosuke has now taken Ohama as his woman, he's becoming ever more deranged and randomly kills people for no reason other than he likes it. Nothing seems to content Ryunosuke, not even his newly born son, "I trust only my sword in this world. When I fight, I have no family" says the cool killer to his new spouse after she pleads with him to give up his killing ways, he seems like a lost soul just searching for a cause to fight for or waiting for his own death, but unable to find an opponent capable of fulfilling his wish. He tries to challenge another master swordsman Shimada (Toshiro Mifune) but all he succeeds in doing is denting his own confidence after Shimada disposes of dozens of Ryonosuke's henchmen and leaves him with a few words that hurt more than any sword, "The sword is the soul. Study the soul to know the sword. Evil mind, evil sword" Sword of doom is full of many side plots, very few of which are fully explained, but its an epic beautifully filmed tale of an antihero, that despite his bad character traits, that should have the viewer loathing him, yet he still retains somewhat of a hero status with the viewer, due mainly to the fantastic, intense performance by Nakadai which is exemplified perfectly in the memorable grand finale, which sees his character battle it out in a burning building with the spirits of all those he has killed in his lifetime. Again Wonderful.