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In the first part of the epic Samurai Trilogy, Toshiro Mifune thunders onto the screen as the iconic title character. When we meet him, Miyamoto is a wide-eyed romantic, dreaming of military glory in the civil war that is ravaging the seventeenth-century countryside. Twists of fate, however, turn him into a fugitive. But he is saved by a woman who loves him and a cunning priest who guides him to the samurai path. Though the opening installment of a series, this film, lushly photographed in color, stands on its own, and won an Academy Award for the best foreign-language film of 1955.
Original Release
09/26/1954
US Release
09/26/1954
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Toshirô Mifune | Musashi Miyamoto (Takezo) / Musashi Miyamoto a.k.a. Takezo |
Rentaro Mikuni | Honiden Matahachi / Matahachi |
Kuroemon Onoe | Takuan Osho / Takuan |
Kaoru Yachigusa | Otsu |
Mariko Okada | Akemi |
Mitsuko Mito | Oko, Matahachi's wife / Oko |
Eiko Miyoshi | Osugi, Matahachi's mother / Osugi |
Akihiko Hirata | Seijuro Yoshioka |
Kusuo Abe | Temma Tsujikaze |
Eitarô Ozawa | Terumasa Ikeda |
Directors
Writers
Hiroshi Inagaki, Hideji Hôjô, Tokuhei Wakao, Eiji Yoshikawa
Cast
Name | Character |
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Toshirô Mifune | Musashi Miyamoto (Takezo) / Musashi Miyamoto a.k.a. Takezo |
Rentaro Mikuni | Honiden Matahachi / Matahachi |
Kuroemon Onoe | Takuan Osho / Takuan |
Kaoru Yachigusa | Otsu |
Mariko Okada | Akemi |
Mitsuko Mito | Oko, Matahachi's wife / Oko |
Eiko Miyoshi | Osugi, Matahachi's mother / Osugi |
Akihiko Hirata | Seijuro Yoshioka |
Kusuo Abe | Temma Tsujikaze |
Eitarô Ozawa | Terumasa Ikeda |
Akira Tani | Kawarano-Gonroku |
Seijirô Onda | Chief Official |
Fumindo Matsuo | Petty Official |
Masanobu Ôkubo | Petty Official |
Takuzô Kumagai | Villager |
Akira Sera | Villager |
Yasuhisa Tsutsumi | Villager |
Yutaka Sada | Soldier |
Shigeo Katô | Soldier |
Jun'ichirô Mukai | Soldier |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Kazuo Takimura | Producer |
Robert B. Homel | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1956 | Oscar | Won |