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18 November 1955 (USA) morePlot:
With his closest friend, Matahachi, Takezo (the town's wild, orphan kid) leaves his village to join an army on its way to battle... more | add synopsisAwards:
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Toshirô Mifune | ... | Musashi Miyamoto (Takezo) | |
| 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 | |
| Kusuo Abe | ... | Temma Tsujikaze | |
| Eitarô Ozawa | ... | Terumasa Ikeda (as Sakae Ozawa) | |
| Akira Tani | ... | Kawarano-Gonroku | |
| Seijiro Onda | ... | Chief Official | |
| Fumito Matsuo | ... | Petty Official | |
| Masanobu Ôkubo | ... | Petty Official | |
| Takuzo Kumagaya | ... | Villager (as Jirô Kumagawa) |
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Master SwordsmanMusashi Miyamoto (USA) (video title)
Samurai
Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto
The Legend of Musashi
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"Miyamoto Musashi" (1955): by Hiroshi Inagaki, starring Torshiro Mifune. This is an EPIC story of one man who sets out to travel far and wide throughout the land and himself in search of his identity and purpose. It has something of the feel of Herman Hesse's book "Siddhartha", but with Samurai battle scenes (no, it is NOT a silly martial arts film). Having won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film of 1955, this is 97 minutes of serious life dramas, with the priorities being Japanese, of course. One must think that with less than a decade having passed since Japan's defeat in WWII, this film's considerations (set in the 16th century) - about identity, goals, love, war, status, and true purpose - were nearly unavoidable. Beautiful photography, good color (considering the era), music that occasionally over-swelled the scene, believable sets, and again, a serious story line, make this one worth seeing. This will sound odd, but I found lots of parallels to the early Marlon Brando film, "The Wild One'". Feel free to disagree.