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If you want to understand the plot of The Sword of Doom, Wikipedia and IMDB have good summaries. But really, don’t bother: the movie’s not about plot, instead it’s all about Tatsuya Nakadai’s character portrait. The ending is often criticized as too abrupt, a by-product of the movie’s status as part one of an unfinished trilogy. I think it’s one of the best movie endings of all time. Rather than obsess over a finished plot it instead puts the final polish on Nakadai’s character arc: from invincible stoicism to beaten and bloodied madness.