Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

Hiroshi Inagaki

 
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (Criterion DVD)

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  • Japan
  • 1956
  • 104 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.33:1
  • Japanese
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  • Spine #16

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 third installment, Duel at Ganryu Island, Musashi reunites tragically with the women who love him, and battles for samurai supremacy in a climactic confrontation with his lifelong nemesis.

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Cast

Musashi MiyamotoToshiro Mifune
Kojiro SasakiKoji Tsuruta
OtsuKaoru Yachigusa
AkemiMariko Okada
OmitsuMichiko Saga
Court OfficialTakashi Shimura

Disc Features

  • Original theatrical trailer

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Film Essays

Samurai III

By Bruce EderJuly 21, 1998

Samurai III, Duel at Ganryu Island, is the last and best part of Hiroshi Inagaki’s Trilogy. In contrast to the earlier, more action-oriented Samurai I and II, this final section shows its hero Musashi (Toshiro Read more »