Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
1954 Japanese film by Hiroshi Inagaki / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Musashi Miyamoto (Japanese: 宮本武蔵, Hepburn: Miyamoto Musashi) is a 1954 Japanese film directed and co-written by Hiroshi Inagaki and starring Toshiro Mifune. The film is the first film of Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy of historical adventures.[3][2]
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Directed by | Hiroshi Inagaki |
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Based on | Musashi,[2] by Eiji Yoshikawa |
Produced by | Kazuo Takimura[1] |
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Cinematography | Jun Yasumoto[1] |
Music by | Ikuma Dan[1] |
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Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 93 minutes[1] |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
The film is adapted from Eiji Yoshikawa's novel Musashi,[2] originally released as a serial in the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, between 1935 and 1939. The novel is loosely based on the life of the famous Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi.
The film was followed by Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955) and Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956).
The film won a Special/Honorary Award at the 1955 Academy Awards for outstanding foreign language film.