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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
1954 · Director: Hiroshi Inagaki · JP
What it is about
The first part of the trilogy about Miyamoto Musashi, from raw villager to swordsman.
The fighting in it
Musashi was a real figure and founder of the Niten Ichi-ryū school, still practised today. The film follows Eiji Yoshikawa's novel rather than Musashi's own Book of Five Rings, so most scenes are literary rather than documented.
Martial arts in the film
Who appears in it
- Toshiro Mifuneactor — Mijamoto Musaši
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