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Shinobu Hashimoto (writer)
Kaizan Nakazato (novel)
Release Date:
1 July 1966 (USA) more
Plot:
Ryunosuke is a sociopathic samurai without compassion or scruples. When he is scheduled for an exhibition match at his fencing school... more | add synopsis
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Tatsuya Nakadai | ... | Ryunosuke Tsukue |
| Yûzô Kayama | ... | Hyoma Utsuki |
| Michiyo Aratama | ... | Ohama |
| Yôko Naito | ... | Omatsu |
| Tadao Nakamaru | ... | Isamu Kondo |
| Kei Satô | ... | Kamo Serizawa |
| Kô Nishimura | ... | Shichibei, Omatsu's 'uncle' |
| Ichirô Nakaya | ... | Bunnojo Utsuki |
| Kunie Tanaka | ... | Senkichi |
| Takamaru Sasaki | ... | Ishinsai Nakamura |
| Ryosuke Kagawa | ... | Dansho Tsukue |
| Kamatari Fujiwara | ... | Omatsu's grandfather |
| Eisei Amamoto | (as Hideyo Amamoto) | |
| Akio Miyabe | ... | Toshizo Ogata |
| Yasuzo Ogawa | ... | Yohachi |
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Also Known As:
Daibosatsu Pass (literal English title)
Le sabre du mal (Japan) (alternative title)
The Sword of Doom (USA)
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119 min
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The abrupt ending of the film is due to the fact that it was originally intended to be the first part in a trilogy of films based on a lengthy Japanese novel. Nakazato Kaizan's 41 volume historical novel focused on the Edo period in Japanese history when the shogunate collapsed and a new government arose that revolved around the Emperor. It was the longest novel in Japan - encompassing 1533 chapters and over 5 and a half million Japanese characters - until the publication of Sohachi Yamaoka's serialized novel "Tokugawa Ieyasu", which is reportedly the longest novel in any language. more
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Toranosuke Shimada: Study the sword to study the soul, you fool... an evil mind makes an evil sword. more
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It sometimes happens that you enter a cinema hall or pick a DVD out of mere curiosity and wind up with one of the greatest surprises of your cinematographic life. Such is the case with The Sword of Doom. I did not know what to expect at all and the raw darkness of the characters and of the cinematography cut me to the bone. I'm told the film is an oddity in his director's career; which makes me risking a (most possibly) silly, unsubstantiated comparison with The Night of the Hunter.