SWORD OF VENGEANCE, the first entry in producer Shintaro Katsu’s six-film adaptation of Kazuo Koike’s classic manga series is the movie that defines extreme, blood-spraying Japanese swordplay action. Katsu, famed star of the ZATOICHI series cast his brother Tomisaburo Wakayama in the iconic role of a stern Shogun’s executioner who is framed for sedition by [...] ...