Word: nakadai
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hidden beneath masks of respectibility and only when they make their plans is the full measure of their malevolence revealed. With their henchmen, however, the situation is different. They boldly flaunt their fugitive status and are terrifyingly eager to implement the merchant's plans for destruction. A henchman (Tatsuys Nakadai) of the sake merchant epitomizes the hyperbole. The only person in the town who owns a pistol, he takes complete advantage of the fact. With obvious pleasure he flourishes the tool and when he kills with it, observes the death with cruel joy. At film's end, in typical badman...
...range of Nakadai's emotions nearly breaks the rigidity of his role. One can deduce that the part only called for the characterization of a gun-happy youth, but he extends it to include the henchman's realization of the role firearms will have in Japan's future...