Dai-bosatsu toge

The Sword of Doom. JP 1966. PC: Takarazuka Eiga Company, Toho. D: Kihachi Okamoto. DP: Hiroshi Murai - b&w - Tohoscope. AD: So Matsuyama. M: Masaru Sato. Starring Tatsuya Nakadai (Ryunosuke Tsuku), Yuzo Kayama (Hyoma Utsuki), Michiyo Aratama (Ohama), Toshiro Mifune (Toranosuke Shimada). 121 min. A brilliant National Film Center (Tokyo) print with English subtitles. Viewed at Cinema Orion, Helsinki, 9 April 2008. - I saw the beginning only of this remarkably engaging and visually exciting samurai saga.