Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun's gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor.
Sword of the Beast has generally received very positive reviews.
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Review of Sword of the Beast (1965)
Review of Sword of the Beast (1965)
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Review of Sword of the Beast (1965)
Review of Sword of the Beast (1965)
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Review of Sword of the Beast (1965)
Review of Sword of the Beast (1965)
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Sword of the Beast was released in 1965 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 23 reviews, giving Sword of the Beast (1965) an average rating of 79%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 77%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 0%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed Sword of the Beast a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 79%, Sword of the Beast is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1965, which stands at 61%.
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