Japan
1966
119 minutes
Black and White
2.35:1
Japanese
280
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 trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule—Ryunosuke (Nakadai) kills without remorse, without mercy. It is a way of life that ultimately leads to madness.
| Ryunosuke Tsukue | Tatsuya Nakadai |
| Toranosuke Shimada | Toshiro Mifune |
| Hama | Michiyo Aratama |
| Hyoma Utsugi | Yuzo Kayama |
| Omatsu | Yoko Naito |
| Kamo Serizawa | Kei Sato |
| Shichibei | Kô Nishimura |
| Bunnojo Utsugi | Ichiro Nakatani |
| Isami Kondo | Tadao Nakamaru |
| Director | Kihachi Okamoto |
| Executive producers | Sanezumi Fujimoto, Kaneharu Minamizato and Masayuki Sato |
| Screenplay | Shinobu Hashimoto |
| Based on the novel by | Kaizan Nakazato |
| Cinematography | Hiroshi Murai |
| Editing | Yoshitami Kuroiwa |
| Music | Masaru Sato |
Kihachi Okamoto’s The Sword of Doom is likely to strike the innocent viewer as an exercise in absurdist violence, tracking the career of a nihilistic swordsman from his gratuitous murder of a defenseless old man to his final descent into what looks like a rehearsal for...
If Akira Kurosawa is the John Ford of Japanese samurai dramas, then The Sword of Doom director Kihachi Okamoto is the samurai film’s Sam Fuller.A specialist in action films, with a particulat accent on violence and raw characterizations, Okomoto made his name in the late 1960’s...
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