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Film / 1955
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Directed by
Hiroshi Inagaki
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Toshirō MifuneMusashi Miyamoto a.k.a. Takezo
Koji TsurutaKojiro Sasaki
Kaoru YachigusaOtsu
Mariko OkadaAkemi
Michiyo KogureLady Yoshino
Akihiko HirataSeijuro Yoshioka
Mitsuko MitoOko
Kurôemon OnoeTakuan
Sachio SakaiMatahachi Honiden
Yū FujikiDenshichiro Yoshioka
Machiko KitagawaKogure
Eiko MiyoshiOsugi
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Eijirō TōnoBaiken Shishido
Kenjin IidaJotaro
Kō MihashiHonami Koetsu
Yoshibumi TajimaYoshioka samurai
Keiko Kondo(uncredited)
Hisako Takihana(uncredited)
Ren Yamamoto(uncredited)
Ryū Kuze(uncredited)
Torahiko Hamada(uncredited)
Yoshio Inaba(uncredited)
Fumindo Matsuo(uncredited)
Minoru Itō(uncredited)
Yasuhisa Tsutsumi(uncredited)
Ren Imaizumi(uncredited)
Rinsaku Ogata(uncredited)
Kenzō Tabu(uncredited)
Kokuten KōdōOld Priest Nikkan (uncredited)
Daisuke KatōToji Gion
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