"The Sword of Doom" was the first of what was supposed to be a trilogy of films based on a manga (comic book) that first appeared in Japan in the early 1960's. The other two films never got made, and I'd like to hunt down the manga to see how the story shakes out. That said, 'hoo-ee!,' what a movie! The lead character is a samurai with no conscience or morals. He just spends the entire film creating mayhem and carnage wherever he goes and in whatever he does.
Toshiro Mifune makes an appearance as another master samurai who, after the bad guys send a bunch of assassin swordsmen after him, effortlessly, methodically cuts the band of assassins down, and then lectures the Sword of Doom, who stood by and watched the show; Mifune lectures the Sword of Doom that, "An evil mind wields an evil blade." For some reason these two then take their leave of each other.
It falls upon the up-and-coming disciple of the Mifune character to take on the Sword of Doom. That's a scene we never see. At the dojo, the old teacher and the disciple dope out that there is one basic sword move that will bring down the Sword of Doom. We watch as he practices it at the dojo. Like I said, I'd like to hunt down the manga to see how it all shakes out.
i looked over my last post about an hour ago, and found a typo that read "going" where "giving" was supposed to reside in a sentence. Auto spell! The sentence was supposed to read that God was giving me plenty, but plenty, of chances to get these women right. I'm glad I snapped to it. By "it" I mean both the concept that God is giving me plenty of chances to get these women right, and the typo that auto spell substituted "going" for the intended word.
Toshiro Mifune makes an appearance as another master samurai who, after the bad guys send a bunch of assassin swordsmen after him, effortlessly, methodically cuts the band of assassins down, and then lectures the Sword of Doom, who stood by and watched the show; Mifune lectures the Sword of Doom that, "An evil mind wields an evil blade." For some reason these two then take their leave of each other.
It falls upon the up-and-coming disciple of the Mifune character to take on the Sword of Doom. That's a scene we never see. At the dojo, the old teacher and the disciple dope out that there is one basic sword move that will bring down the Sword of Doom. We watch as he practices it at the dojo. Like I said, I'd like to hunt down the manga to see how it all shakes out.
i looked over my last post about an hour ago, and found a typo that read "going" where "giving" was supposed to reside in a sentence. Auto spell! The sentence was supposed to read that God was giving me plenty, but plenty, of chances to get these women right. I'm glad I snapped to it. By "it" I mean both the concept that God is giving me plenty of chances to get these women right, and the typo that auto spell substituted "going" for the intended word.
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