Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki • 1954 • Japan
Starring Toshiro Mifune, Rentaro Mikuni, Kuroemon Onoe

In the first part of the epic Samurai Trilogy, Toshiro Mifune thunders onto the screen as the iconic title character. When we meet him, Miyamoto is a wide-eyed romantic, dreaming of military glory in the civil war that is ravaging the seventeenth-century countryside. Twists of fate, however, turn him into a fugitive. But he is saved by a woman who loves him and a cunning priest who guides him to the samurai path. Though the opening installment of a series, this film, lushly photographed in color, stands on its own, and won an Academy Award for the best foreign-language film of 1955.

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
  • Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

    Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki • 1954 • Japan
    Starring Toshiro Mifune, Rentaro Mikuni, Kuroemon Onoe

    In the first part of the epic Samurai Trilogy, Toshiro Mifune thunders onto the screen as the iconic title character. When we meet him, Miyamoto is a wide-eyed romantic, dreaming of military glory i...

Extras

  • On Musashi Miyamoto, Part 1

    The character Musashi Miyamoto was inspired by the historical figure of the same name. In this interview, conducted in 2012, translator and historian William Scott Wilson (“The Lone Samurai”) discusses the real-life events corresponding to the time frame of SAMURAI I: MUSASHI MIYAMOTO.