Over at the excellent Ichijoji blog, Chris Hellman had a post about a classic samurai movie, the Sword of Doom. The post includes one of the most iconic sword duels in filmdom, which I will NOT include here. Visit the blog instead.
An excerpt is below. The full post may be read here.
The snow yesterday (not so common these days, and comparatively light compared to much of the rest of the country) reminded me of this classic scene from the film, The Sword of Doom, one of the several versions of the multi-volume novel by Nakazato Kaizan, Daibosatsu Toge – Great Buddha Pass, but arguably the best. (The others do have their good points, though).
The sword master, Shimada Toranosuke,
played here by Toshiro Mifune, (I have written his name the English way,
but all the other names here are written surname first) is attacked
mistakenly on his way back from a friend’s house. The attackers realise
they have the wrong man, but make the mistake of pressing on with the
attack regardless.
This may be one of Mifune’s best appearances as a swordmaster
(admittedly, the role is quite minor) but he plays it to perfection.
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