Dai-bosatsu tôge

1966 [JAPANESE]

Action / Drama / Thriller

38
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 80% · 10 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 90% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.9/10 10 13403 13.4K

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Plot summary

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. It’s a way of life that leads to madness.

Director

Kihachi Okamoto Photo
Kihachi Okamoto

Top cast

Yôko Naitô Photo
Yôko Naitô as Omatsu
Kinnosuke Takamatsu Photo
Kinnosuke Takamatsu as Old Pilgrim
Yasuzô Ogawa Photo
Yasuzô Ogawa as Yohachi
Hiroshi Hasegawa Photo
Hiroshi Hasegawa as Aoyama the Scout
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
990.85 MB
1280*544
Japanese 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 0 min
Seeds 7
1.89 GB
1920*816
Japanese 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 0 min
Seeds 29

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Parker E 9 / 10

The Sword of Doom works expertly at making

The Sword of Doom works expertly at making you root for the villain. "The sword is the soul. Study the soul to know the sword. Evil mind, evil sword." The Sword of Doom works so well because of two things: the Main actor Tatsuya Nakadai and the cinematography. Every scene is beautiful and is framed with accuracy and precision; showing everything you need to know. The scenes are gorgeous, from the snow falling on the bodies cut down from an expert samurai to a haunted samurai slashing at the ghosts of his past. Tatsuya has this stare in this film that pierces into the souls of everyone in the film and those watching. Tatsuya has done an amazing job in his role. It's sad to hear that this was meant to be a trilogy that never happened - thus the surprise ending. But the end works great, making you think about what happened.
Reviewed by Yash B 6 / 10

Old-school samurai movies aren't my absolute favorite genre

Old-school samurai movies aren't my absolute favorite genre, but it is one that I have found a good amount of enjoyment in. With "The Sword of Doom," I was able to see something not from Kurosawa while also having a similar look and feel. The film looks really cool with many tense fight scenes as well as lots of memorable camera shots. I think the story just went a bit over my head and I thought there were a lot of things at play which overwhelmed me. I feel like I was able to follow bits and pieces of it but as a whole, the movie wasn't as memorable as other films in the genre for me personally. Overall, it is a cool movie from the time that has plenty of really impressive stylistic elements, but the story is just not one that resonated with me and it felt a bit confusing.
Reviewed by DanTheMan 2 8 / 10

A painfully slow yet exceptionally captivating tale of

A painfully slow yet exceptionally captivating tale of a man who chooses to devote his life to evil and the madness that follows, The Sword of Doom is more often than not defined by its meticulously precise construction. Serving as the first part of an unfinished trilogy adapting the famously incomplete Great Bodhisattva Pass, The Sword of Doom was thrust upon Kihachi Okamoto by Toho, due to them being dissatisfied with his previous film. Here, Okamoto not only delivers a grand, sweeping epic crammed with beautiful shots and exceptional staging but also marks it out as an expression of rage, conditioning and stylish tension. Although I found the pacing glacially slow in comparison to his other works, it's Tatsuya Nakadai's stunning performance that incarnates perfectly the paradox at the heart of his character which makes for such engaging viewing that it wasn't a huge deal breaker for me. Clean yet brutal, The Sword of Doom makes for a remarkably vicious gesture of destructive essence, with unmistakable visual beauty inseparable from horror.
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