Review of The Sword of Doom (1966) by Dave J — 06 Nov 2012
Monday, November 5, 2012.
(1967) The Sword Of Doom.
(In Japanese with English subtitles).
Similar to other films such as "No Country For Old Men", "There Will Be Blood and "Limbo" where viewers have to come up with their own conclusions about what happened even though much of the movie is straight forward. The plot regards a samurai by the name of Ryunosuke Tsukue and he is disgusting and is a horrible human being. At the first few minutes an old man goes to the mountains for a picnic with his granddaughter, and upon the grandaughter fetching some water down on some stream, an unknown samurai overhears him praying onto some grave stone calling himself a pilgrim and upon hearing this, slays him. As the film progresses, it is assumed that because he is a samurai that he was able to do anything he wants which also could mean taking the life of someone whose lower class and defenseless. They're no policing back on those days so there was a time when it's defined as rank. We're then being introduced into his world and he is not a nice person, for he takes away a wife's chasity for losing a match he does not intend to keep and ends up killing the husband just because he could. He's a master samurai and at some point we want to witness his downfall and how if ever.
Symbolic with reasonating dialogue with veteran actor Toshiro Mifune in a small part as a one of the moral instructors. Tatsuya Nakadai as Ryunosuke Tsukue is frightening foe whose similar to Chirgu in "No Country For Old Men".
3 out of 4 stars.
This review of The Sword of Doom (1966) was written by Dave J on 06 Nov 2012.
The Sword of Doom has generally received very positive reviews.
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