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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 ...
Films: Miyamoto Musashi (1929), directed by Kintaro Inoue. Miyamoto Musashi chi no maki (1937), directed by Takizawa Eisuke. Miyamoto Musashi (1938), directed by Kazuo Mori. Miyamoto Musashi chi no maki (1938), directed by Ishihashi Seiichi. Miyamoto Musashi ketto Hannyazaka (1943), directed by Daisuke Ito.
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.
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]
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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]
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]
(Top) 1 References. ... A list of films produced in Japan ordered by year in the 1940s. ... Miyamoto Musashi: Kenji Mizoguchi: Chojuro Kawarasaki, ...