Hideo Gosha can be said to have had three periods in his career: revisionist Jidai-geki samurai tales, such as "Three Outlaw Samurai", "Sword of the Beast", "Hitokiri" (also known as "Tenchu"), and "Goyokin"; Yakuza tales, such as "The Wolves", "Hunter in the Dark", and "Onimasa"; and women with swords films, such as "Death Shadows". This falls into the gap between the first two genres: Yakuza vs. Samurai. I have not yet seen Tatsuya Nakadai give a bad performance, and he certainly does not in this exciting tale of a bandit leader with a secret targeting a samurai clan. |
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