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★ 7.2/10 TMDB
1955-07-12
103 min
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers.
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Toshirō Mifune
Musashi Miyamoto a.k.a. Takezo
Koji Tsuruta
Kojiro Sasaki
Kaoru Yachigusa
Otsu
Mariko Okada
Akemi
Michiyo Kogure
Lady Yoshino
Akihiko Hirata
Seijuro Yoshioka
Mitsuko Mito
Oko
Kuroemon Onoe II
Takuan
Sachio Sakai
Matahachi Honiden
Yū Fujiki
Denshichiro Yoshioka
Machiko Kitagawa
Kogure
Eiko Miyoshi
Osugi
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