Mijamoto Musaši kankecuhen: Kettó Ganrjúdžima
Directed by:
Hiroshi InagakiCinematography:
Kazuo YamadaComposer:
Ikuma DanCast:
Toshirō Mifune, 鶴田浩二, Mariko Okada, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Takamaru Sasaki, Haruo Tanaka, Eijirō Tōno, Daisuke Katō, 水戸光子, 八千草薫, 尾上九朗右衛門, Michiyo Kogure (more)Plots(1)
A disillusioned Musashi Miyamoto (Toshiro Mifune) has turned his back on the samurai life, becoming a farmer in a remote village, while his nemesis Kojiro (Koji Tsuruta) now works for the shogun. Circumstances bring them back together for one final face-off. Though it’s marked by a memorably intense final battle sequence, the rousing conclusion to the Samurai Trilogy is engaged with matters of the heart as well, as Miyamoto must ask himself what it is that makes a warrior and a man. (Criterion)
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Inagaki at last realized what a treasure he had in Mifune, and then exploited it to the full. Without his charismatic “just one look and you know I am God" aura, scenes like the one with the flies would have been hard to take seriously (despite a hint of humor) and not like a bad joke. However, the ending is the most important part, especially the finale on the island which makes the occasionally not so entertaining approx. three hundred minutes preceding it well worth watching.
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