Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (Miyamoto Musashi) (1954)

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Directed by

Hiroshi Inagaki

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Toshirô Mifune
Musashi Miyamoto

Rentaro Mikuni
Honiden Matahachi

Kuroemon Onoe
Takuan Osho

Kaoru Yachigusa
Otsu

Mariko Okada
Akemi

Mitsuko Mito
Oko, Matahachi's wife

Eiko Miyoshi
Osugi, Matahachi's mother

Akihiko Hirata
Seijuro Yoshioka

Written by

Hiroshi Inagaki

Eiji Yoshikawa
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Description: Following the Battle of Sekigahara, Takezo (Mifune) and his friend Matahachi (Rentaro Mikuni) find themselves on the losing side. Instead of the grand victory and glory Takezo had anticipated, he finds himself a hunted fugitive. The pair seek shelter with a widow and her daughter. Both women attempt to seduce Takezo but are rejected. The widow then tells Matahachi that Takezo tried to assault her and convinces him to escort her and her daughter to Kyoto. Matahachi agrees even though he loves (and is betrothed to) Otsu (Kaoru Yachigusa), a woman from his village. Takezo returns to his village to tell Matahachi's family that he ... (more)

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Tags: Japan (5), Samurai (5), Action (4), 1950s (4), Drama (3), 1954 (3), Biography (2), History (2), Adventure (2), Martial Arts (2), Trilogy (2), Path (2), Japanese (1), Foreign Language (1), Biopic (1), 11 (1), Based On Book (1), East Asia (1), Retro Asian (1), Jidaigeki (1)

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"In the first part of the epic Samurai Trilogy, Miyamoto is a wide-eyed romantic, dreaming of military glory in the civil war that is ravaging the seventeenth-century countryside. Twists of fate, however, turn him into a fugitive. But he is saved by a woman who loves him and a cunning priest who guides him to the samurai path."

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