Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955) Rating: Starring: Akihiko Hirata, Daisuke Kato, Kunimori Kodo, Michiyo Kogure, Toshiro Mifune, Ko Mihashi, Mitsuko Mito, Mariko Okada, Kuroemon Onoe, Sachio Sakai, Koji Tsurata, Kaoru Yachigusa Director: Hiroshi Inagaki Category: Foreign, Action / Adventure Studio: Criterion Subtitles: English Length: 102 mins Want to buy?           Hiroshi Inagaki's acclaimed Samurai Trilogy is based on the novel 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 follows Mushashi's odyssey from unruly youth to enlightened warrior. In the second and most violent installment, Duel at Ichijoji Temple, Musashi beats a samurai armed with a chain-and-sickle and is later set upon by eighty samurai disciples--orchestrated by the sinister Kojiro--while the two women who love him watch helplessly.