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Won 1 Academy Awards (Oscar) Honorary Award: Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1955.

Samurai: the Legend of Musashi

(Musashi Miyamoto)

1954, regia di Hiroshi Inagaki

Scheda: Nazione: Giappone - Produzione: Toho Company Ltd., Toho - Distribuzione: Criterion Collection, Fine Arts Films, Homel Pictures Inc., International Toho Co. Ltd., Toho Company Ltd. - Soggetto: dall'omonimo romanzo di Eiji Yoshikawa - Sceneggiatura: Hideji Hojo, Hiroshi Inagaki,  Tokuhei Wakao - Fotografia: Jun Yasumoto - Montaggio: Eiji Oi,  Robert B. Homel (versione USA) - Scenografia: Makoto Sono - Musiche: Ikuma Dan - Effetti speciali: Toho Technical Division - Formato: Eastmancolor - Durata: 93'.

Cast: Toshirô Mifune, Rentaro Mikuni, Kuroemon Onoe, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Okada, Mitsuko Mito, Eiko Miyoshi, Akihiko Hirata, Kusuo Abe, Eitarô Ozawa, Akira Tani, Seijiro Onda, Fumito Matsuo, Masanobu Ôkubo, Jiro Kumagai, Akira Sera.

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: entertainment.msn.com - tvguide.com - blockbuster.com - IMDb: «With his closest friend, Matahachi, Takezo (the town's wild, orphan kid) leaves his village to join an army on its way to battle. After their side loses, they seek shelter in the isolated home of a widow, Oko, and her daughter, Akemi. Oko seduces Matahachi, who forgets his betrothal to the virtuous Otsu. Oko, Matahachi, and Akemi go to Kyoto, but Takezo returns to the village. Matahachi's family rejects Takezo's report and has him arrested for treason. A monk rescues him from death and sentences him to the study of the samurai code. Otsu and Takezo fall in love, and she promises to wait for him when he sets off on the road as a knight errant».

Approfondimenti: Movie Review

Conosciuto anche con i titoli: The Legend of Musashi; Master Swordsman; Samurai; Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto.

La trilogia di Hiroshi Inagaki sul personaggio di Miyamoto Musashi: Samurai 1: The Legend of Musashi (1954); Samurai part II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955); Samurai 3: Duel At Ganryu Island (1956). Vedi anche Samurai, di Kenji Mizoguchi (1944).

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