YMMV / The Sword of Doom

• Complete Monster: Tsukue Ryunosuke is a seemingly peerless swordsman-and a heartless murderer. Beginning the film by killing a monk praying for death simply because he can, Ryunosuke proceeds to a tournament to show his skill. When the wife of one opponent begs him not to humiliate her husband, Ryunosuke coerces sex from her and later kills her husband in the fight anyways, making the wife his mistress. Eventually making his living as an assassin, Rynosuke kills many people and even his mistress when she finally has enough. At film's end, Ryunosuke snaps and turns on his own employers, slaughtering everyone they send against him until numbers take their toll. Rather than submit, he ends the film lunging at them with an expression of animalistic fury on his face. A cruel, ice-cold man seemingly bereft of emotion, the rot in Ryunosuke's soul goes horribly with his elevated ego and lack of scruples.
• Nightmare Fuel: Ryunosuke is made of this, from his absolute lack of morals to his Creepy Monotone going along with his glassy-eyed stare, giving him a very creepy aura.