Nakadai in The Sword of Doom is an all timer performance. Ryunosuke is a black void of amorality and ruthlessness. Fascinating character in a very interesting and perplexing film.

This is such a great Letterboxd feature. I knew that Nakadai and Naruse had collaborated several times (I’ve only seen When a Women Ascends the Stairs) and I wanted to check what these films are. Inputting the search query like so brings up all the films they worked on together.