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Samurai I won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.. In a review almost 60 years after the release of the trilogy, the late academic and film critic Stephen Prince noted "the absence of gore" in the films: "Severed limbs and spurting arteries hadn't yet arrived as a movie convention, and the fights in The Samurai Trilogy are relatively chaste, not showing the carnage that such ...
The PlayStation game Brave Fencer Musashi and its PlayStation 2 sequel Musashi: Samurai Legend are based on Musashi. In the first game, Musashi must obtain the Five Scrolls of Fire, Earth, Water, Wind, and Sky and obtain the sword Lumina to seal away the evil Wizard of Darkness and later duels his rival Kojiro at the Dragon Island.
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A substantial number of films have been made about Miyamoto Musashi, a famed historical warrior and swordsman, most notably a three-movie series (1954-1956) starring Toshiro Mifune and a six-movie series (1961-1965 and 1971) starring Kinnosuke Nakamura, both based on the novel Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa.
In 2009 the film was voted at No. 2 on the list of The Greatest Japanese Films of All Time by Japanese film magazine Kinema Junpo. [63] Seven Samurai was ranked number one on Empire magazine's list of "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema" in 2010. [64] Film critic Roger Ebert added it to his list of Great Movies in 2001. [65]
Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵, c. 1584 – 13 June 1645), [1] was a Japanese swordsman, strategist, artist, and writer who became renowned through stories of his unique double-bladed swordsmanship and undefeated record in his 62 duels (next is 33 by Itō Ittōsai). [2] Musashi is considered a kensei (sword saint) of Japan. [3]
After Hart is killed, Eggsy teams up with fellow agents to stop Valentine in order to save the world. By the film’s end, Eggsy steps into his mentor's shoes, continuing the legacy of the Kingsman.
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto was released in Japan on 26 September 1954 where it was distributed by Toho. [1] It was distributed theatrically in the United States as Samurai (The Legend of Musashi) by Fine Art Films with English-subtitles and English narration on 19 November 1955. [1] [5]