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Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: June 26, 2012

Price: DVD $59.95, Blu-ray $69.95

Studio: Criterion

Toshiro Mifune stars as a legendary 17th Century swordsman in The Samurai Trilogy.

The Samurai Trilogy, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki (The Rickshaw Man) and starring the inimitable Toshiro Mifune (Seven Samurai), was one of Japan’s most successful action-adventure film exports of the 1950s.

Based on the rousing, combat-filled novel by Eiji Yoshikawa that’s often called Japan’s Gone with the Wind, the sweeping Samurai Trilogy fictionalizes the life of the legendary seventeenth-century swordsman (and writer and artist) Musashi Miyamoto. Following him on his path from unruly youth to enlightened warrior, the three films—1954’s Oscar-winning Musashi Miyamoto, 1955’s Duel at Ichijoji Temple, and 1956’s Duel at Ganryu Island—come together as a passionate epic that’s equal parts tender love story and bloody action.

Issued previously on DVD by Criterion in 2004, these latest DVD and Blu-ray editions of »

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1 item from 2012