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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)
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Akihiko Hirata,
Daisuke Kato,
Kunimori Kodo,
Michiyo Kogure,
Toshiro Mifune,
Ko Mihashi,
Mitsuko Mito,
Mariko Okada,
Kuroemon Onoe,
Sachio Sakai,
Koji Tsurata,
Kaoru Yachigusa
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Hiroshi Inagaki
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Foreign,
Action / Adventure
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Criterion
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English
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102 mins
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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.
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