Sword of Doom 02/24 Blu-ray (Rental)

Kihachi Okamoto's The Sword of Doom is the darkest and most nihilistic of the big samurai films. Unlike the just, forgiving and genuinely likeable characters that typically populate Akira Kurosawa, Masaki Kobayashi, Hideo Gosha and Hiroshi Inagaki's classic films, Ryunosuke is a vile and brutal psychopath whose sword strikes the weak and innocent as often as it does his opponents. What is genuinely disturbing about this anti-hero, however, is the fact that the film not only does not attempt to r...