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Sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai Musashi Miyamoto plays out against the turmoil of a devastating civil war. The trilogy follows Musashi's odyssey from his unruly youth to a enlightened warrior.
With his closest friend, Matahachi, Takezo (the town's wild, orphan kid) leaves his village to join an army on its way to battle. After their side loses, they seek shelter in the isolated home of a widow, Oko, and her daughter, Akemi. Oko seduces Matahachi, who forgets his betrothal to the virtuous Otsu. Oko, Matahachi, and Akemi go to Kyoto, but Takezo returns to the village. Matahachi's family rejects Takezo's report and has him arrested for treason. A monk rescues him from death and sentences him to the study of the samurai code. Otsu and Takezo fall in love, and she promises to wait for him when he sets off on the road as a knight errant.
Director
Hiroshi Inagaki
Cast
Akihiko Hirata
Akira Sera
Akira Tani
Daisuke Kato
Eiko Miyoshi
Eitaro Ozawa (Sakae Ozawa)
Fumito Matsuo
Jiro Kumagai (Jiro Kumagawa)
Junichiro Mukai
Kanta Kisaragi
Kaoru Yachigusa
Kiyoshi Kamoda
Kuroemon Onoe
Kusuo Abe
Kyoro Sakurai
Mariko Okada
Masanobu Okubo
Masao Masuda
Michio Sakurai
Mitsuko Mito
Rentaro Mikuni
Seijiro Onda
Shigeo Kato
Sojin Kamiyama
Toshiro Mifune
William Holden
Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
Yoshio Kosugi
Yutaka Sada
Publisher : TRV
Audio : Japanese
Subtitles : English
Running Time : 91mins
Release Year : 1954
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