Mijamoto Musaši
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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. (Criterion)
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Despite the slow take-off, the ending all the better for it, arousing hopes that the remaining two parts of Yoshikawa’s legendary novel about Musashi would also be treated to a decent adaptation. However, this is far from true about part one itself which would have benefitted from being considerably shorter and combined with part two.
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