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Director TOMU UCHIDA

Miyamoto Musashi parts 1-6

Zen and Sword (Miyamoto Musashi) - Kinnosuke Nakamura (Takezo / Miyamoto Musashi), Wakaba Irie (Otsu), Isao Kimura (Hon'iden Matahachi), Chieko Naniwa (Osugi), Michiyo Kogure (Oko), Kusuo Abe (Goroku), Harue Akagi (Old woman), Minosuke Bandô (Terumasa Ikeda), Tokubei Hanazawa (Tanzaemon Aoki), Akiko Kazami (Ogin), Rentaro Mikuni (Takuan), Seiji Miyaguchi (Kisuke), Satomi Oka (Akemi) (Toei; 1961; Color; Subt; NR)
Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights (Hannyazaka no ketto) - Kinnosuke Nakamura (Miyamoto Musashi / Takezo), Wakaba Irie (Otsu), Isao Kimura (Matahachi), Chieko Naniwa (Grandmother Osugi), Michiyo Kogure (Oko), Kusuo Abe (Goroku), Rentaro Mikuni (Takuan), Shinjiro Ebara (Seijuro Yoshioka), Choichiro Kawarazaki (Kichijiro Hayashi), Hiroshi Minami (Fujitsugu Gion), Seiji Miyaguchi (Kisuke), Chieko Murata, Masao Oda (Cheap hotel's owner), Satomi Oka (Akemi), Takamaru Sasaki (Terumasa Ikeda), Ryunosuke Tsukigata (Nikkan) (Toei; 1962; 110 min; Color; Subt; NR)
Birth of two Sword Style (Nitoryu kaigen) - Kinnosuke Nakamura (Miyamoto Musashi / Takezo), Wakaba Irie (Otsu), Isao Kimura (Matahachi), Ken Takakura (Sasaki Kojiro), Michiyo Kogure (Oko), Kusuo Abe (Uncle), Chieko Naniwa (Osugi), Satomi Oka (Akemi), Shinjiro Ebara (Seijuro), Choichiro Kawarazaki (Kichijiro), Hiroshi Minami (Toji), Mikijiro Hira (Denshichiro) (Toei; 1963; 104 min; Color; Subt; NR)
The Duel at Ichijoji (Ichijoji no ketto) - Kinnosuke Nakamura (Miyamoto Musashi / Takezo), Wakaba Irie (Otsu), Isao Kimura (Matahachi), Chieko Naniwa (Grandmother Osugi), Mikijiro Hira, Satomi Oka, Rentaro Mikuni, Kusuo Abe (Goroku), Michiyo Kogure (Oko), Ken Takakura (Sasaki Kojiro) (Toei; 1964; 128 min; Color; Subt; NR)
Musashi vs Kojiro (Ganryû-jima no kettô) - Kinnosuke Nakamura (Miyamoto Musashi / Takezo), Ken Takakura (Sasaki Kojiro), Wakaba Irie (Otsu), Chieko Naniwa (Grandmother Osugi), Isao Kimura (Matahachi), Michiyo Kogure (Oko), Kusuo Abe (Goroku), Rentaro Mikuni (Takuan), Sumiko Hidaka, Chiezo Kataoka (Sado Nagaoka), Choichiro Kawarazaki (Kichijiro Hayashi), Ryuji Kita, Satomi Oka (Akemi), Kotaro Satomi, Koreya Senda, Takahiro Tamura, Asao Uchida (Toei; 1965; 121 min; Color; Subt; NR)
Swords of Death (Shinken shobu) - Kinnosuke Nakamura (Musashi Miyamoto), Rentaro Mikuni (Baiken Shishido) Teruo Matsuyama, Hideko Okiyama (Omaki), Hiroshi Tanaka, Hironobu Wakamoto (Toho; 1971; 75 min; Color; Subt; NR)

Director HIROSHI INAGAKI

Samurai parts 1-3

Miyamoto Musashi (Miyamoto Musashi) - A defeated samurai's spirit is broken, until a loving woman and Takuan, a Buddhist priest, rebuild his faith. Part 1 of the award winning 3-part film series about Japan's legendary swordsman, Musashi Miyamoto. Also released as Samurai I: Master Swordsman and Samurai I: The Legend of Musashi. Toshiro Mifune (Miyamoto Musashi), Rentaro Mikuni (Honiden Matahachi), Kaoru Yachigusa (Otsu), Mariko Okada (Akemi), Kuroemon Onoe (Takuan Osho), Mitsuko Mito (Oko), Daisuke Kato (Toji), Eiko Miyoshi, Kusuo Abe, Yoshio Kosugi, Sojin Kamiyama and Kanta Kisaragi(Toho; 1955; 92 min; Color; Subt; NR)
Duel at Ichijoji Temple (Ichijoji no Ketto) - Toshiro Mifune (Musashi), Koji Tsurata (Sasaki Kojiro), Sachio Sakai (Honiden Matahachi), Akihito Hirata (Seijuro), Yu Fujiki (Denshichiro), Daisuke Kato (Toji), Eijiro Tono (Baiken), Ko Mihashi (Koetsu), Kunimori Kodo (Priest Nikkan), Kenjin Iida (Jotaro), Kaoru Yachigusa (Otsu), Mariko Okada (Akemi), Mitsuko Mito (Oko), Michiyo Kogure (Yoshino Dayu)(Toho; 1955; 104 min; Color; Subt; NR)
Duel on Ganryu Island (Ketto Ganryujima) - Toshiro Mifune (Musashi), Rentaro Mikuni (Honiden Matahachi), Kaoru Yachigusa (Otsu), Mariko Okada (Akemi), Kuroemon Onoe (Takuan Osho), Mitsuko Mito (Oko), Daisuke Kato, Eiko Miyoshi, Kusuo Abe, Yoshio Kosugi, Sojin Kamiyama, Kanta Kisaragi(Toho; 1956; 102 min; Color; Subt; NR)

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Musashi vs Kojiro (Ganryû-jima no kettô)
Man, that's gotta be pretty hard to keep moral up for. "Hey, Miyamoto-san! A 50 metre tall radioactive lizard has challenged you and your fighting style to a duel on Ohto Island!"

...oh, wait. I'm thinking of Gojira :oops:
"...[H]uman beings are given free will in order to choose between insanity on the one hand and lunacy on the other..."
Aldous Huxley, 1946
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