Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto - Criterion Collection |  | Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Rentaro Mikuni, Kuroemon Onoe, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Okada
Studio: Criterion
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Format: Color, Criterion Collection, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Japanese (Original Language), English (Published)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.2 x 0.6
MPN: PMIDSAM100D
ISBN: 0780021045
UPC: 037429125427
EAN: 9780780021044
Release Date: July 28, 1998
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Product Description
Toshiro Mifune, Kaoru Yachigusa. A young man leaves his home and begins his quest to become a noble and courageous samurai warrior. Part one of the acclaimed three-part Japanese epic. In Japanese with English subtitles. 1954/color/92 min/NR/fullscreen.
Toshirô Mifune defines the quintessential samurai in Hiroshi Inagaki's 1954 Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto, the first feature in a trilogy based on the epic novel by Eiji Yoshikawa. As in Kurosawa's classic Seven Samurai, which appeared the same year, Mifune plays a brash and ambitious peasant who desires fame and power as a swordsman. His dreams of glory in war sour when his army is routed and he becomes hunted by the authorities, but the "tough love" attentions of a kindly but severe monk help him develop from a hot-tempered outlaw to a thoughtful swordsman. Inagaki's somber color epic is very different from the energetic action of Kurosawa's films. The sword fights and battles are practically theatrical in their presentation, staged in long takes that emphasize form and movement over flash and flamboyance. Mifune brings a sad, almost tragic quality to the samurai warrior Musashi Miyamoto, whose dedication proscribes him to a lonely life on the road. Though the film stands well on its own, its stature takes on greater significance as the first act of Inagaki's stately, contemplative epic of the professional and spiritual development of Musashi, whose training and adventures continue in Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple. --Sean Axmaker
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