Synopsis
Hiroshi Inagaki’s acclaimed “Samurai Trilogy” is based on the novel that has been called Japan’s Gone with the Wind. This sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai Musashi Miyamoto (powerfully portrayed by Toshiro Mifune) plays out against the turmoil of a devastating civil war. The Trilogy (whose first part won an Academy Award) follows Musashi’s odyssey from unruly youth to enlightened warrior. In the second and most violent installment, Duel at Ichijoji Temple, Musashi beats a samurai armed with a chain and sickle and is later set upon by eighty samurai disciples—orchestrated by the sinister Kojiro—while the two women who love him watch helplessly.
Cast
| Musashi Miyamoto | Toshiro Mifune |
| Kojiro Sasaki | Koji Tsuruta |
| Otsu | Kaoru Yachigusa |
| Akemi | Mariko Okada |
| Lady Yoshino | Michiyo Kogure |
Credits
| Director | Hiroshi Inagaki |
| Producer | Kazuo Takimura |
| Screenplay | Tokuhei Wakao and Hiroshi Inagaki |
| Cinematography | Jun Yasumoto |
| Sound | Choshichiro Mikami |
| Music | Ikuma Dan |
Disc Features
- Original theatrical trailer
From the Current
Samurai II
by Jul 21, 1998Despite its title, Samurai II, Duel at Ichijoji Temple, is not really an action film. It has more than its share of action and violence, to be sure—the duel between Musashi Miyamoto (Toshiro Mifune) and the chain-and-sickle master that opens the movie is...
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