That movie was followed by “Seven Samurai” (1954), among the ... most important of all, Tatsuya Nakadai, who portrays Mifune’s chief antagonist in both pictures with radical differentiation.

Tatsuya Nakadai plays a samurai who is an eyewitness to a massacre of a small village by men of his own clan. Even though he did not participate, and did his best to prevent it, he realizes with ...