Drama ·Action ·Adventure · Japan · 1955 · 1h 43m

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

続宮本武蔵　一乗寺の決闘

Director

Cast

Toshirō Mifune as Musashi Miyamoto a.k.a. Takezo Koji Tsuruta as Kojiro Sasaki Kaoru Yachigusa as Otsu Mariko Okada as Akemi Michiyo Kogure as Lady Yoshino Akihiko Hirata as Seijuro Yoshioka

Crew

Jun Yasumoto — Director of Photography Hideshi Ohi — Editor Ikuma Dan — Original Music Composer Hiroshi Inagaki — Screenplay Tokuhei Wakao — Screenplay Eiji Yoshikawa — Novel

Synopsis

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers.

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