SAMURAI 2: DUEL AT ICHIJOJI TEMPLE (FULL SCREEN)

Details

• Release Year: 1955
• Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama, Foreign, Martial Arts
• Plot: Hiroshi Inagaki's acclaimed Samurai Trilogy is based on the novel that 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.
• Cast: Toshirô Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Mariko Okada, Kaoru Yachigusa, Michiyo Kogure, Mitsuko Mito, Akihiko Hirata, Daisuke Katô, Kuroemon Onoe, Sachio Sakai, Yû Fujiki, Machiko Kitagawa, Eiko Miyoshi, Eijirô Tôno, Kenjin Iida, Akira Tani, Ko Mihashi, Kokuten Kôdô, Yoshifumi Tajima, Hiroshi Inagaki, Hideji Hôjô
• Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
• Runtime: 1:43
• Company: Criterion
• Media Format: Movie