THE SWORD OF DOOM
Gretchen Felker-Martin Nov 25, 2020. 5 minute read
The Sword is the Soul: ‘The Sword of Doom’ and Cultural Violence
“Violence is the true enemy” is hardly a novel thesis for an action movie, but few delve as deeply into the suffocating emptiness of a life lived through war as The Sword of Doom, Kihachi Okamoto’s bleak, sadistic 1966 deconstruction of the archetype of the wandering swordsman. Watching it today,…
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