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What It Was Like Making One of Cinema's Bloodiest Samurai Flicks...

by CinemaTyler

Cinema Tyler devotes this video essay to Japanese actor Tatsuya Nakadai, presenting excerpts from a post-screening Q&A with Nakadai to find out more about what it was like making The Sword of Doom (1966), one of cinema’s bloodiest samurai flicks.

The Sword of Doom

Directed by

Kihachi Okamoto
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