Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)
Miyamoto Musashi (released in the United States as Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto) is a 1954 color (Eastmancolor) Japanese film by Hiroshi Inagaki starring Toshiro Mifune. It is the first film of Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy of historical adventures. The film is adapted from Eiji Yoshikawa's novel Musashi. The novel is loosely based on the life of the famous Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. The film won a Special/Honorary Award at the 1955 Academy Awards for outstanding foreign language film.
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Cast:
- Kusuo Abe
- Daisuke Katō
- Akihiko Hirata
- William Holden
- Junichirō Mukai
- Kiyoshi Kamoda
- Shigeo Kato
- Kanta Kisaragi
- Yoshio Kosugi
- Jiro Kumagai
- Masanobu Ôkubo
- Masao Masuda
- Fumito Matsuo
- Toshiro Mifune
- Mitsuko Mito
- Eiko Miyoshi
- Mariko Okada
- Seijiro Onda
- Kuroemon Onoe
- Eitaro Ozawa
- Rentarō Mikuni
- Yutaka Sada
- Kyoro Sakurai
- Michio Sakurai
- Akira Sera
- Sōjin Kamiyama
- Akira Tani
- Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
- Kaoru Yachigusa