Film Forum
209 W Houston St
212.727.8110
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Sword of Doom
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Wednesday June 25, 2008 (1, 3:20, 5:40 & 8pm)
Thursday June 26, 2008 (1 & 3:20pm)
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$10
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By working with Japan's cinematic luminaries (Akira Kurosawa, Hiroshi Teshigahara, and Kon Ichikawa, among others), legendary leading man Tatsuya Nakadai transcended the pretty-boy destiny that his handsome face preordained. From stone-faced noh classicism to swaggering yakuza cool, Nakadai's versatility is celebrated during Film Forum's seven-week retrospective of the actor's career. Tonight, in Kihachi Okamoto's finest daisho-and-sandal epic, Sword of Doom, Nakadai plays the ultimate antihero, Ryunosuke, a stoic ronin who descends into madness due to his nihilistic ways. After several man-against-the-world swordfights and smaller, more psychologically disturbing murders, Okamoto crowns the outré carnage with a final, seemingly endless bloodbath.
