#16: INAGAKI, Hiroshi: The Samurai Trilogy / Samurai III: Duel At Ganryu Island (1956)

INAGAKI, Hiroshi: (Japan)
Samurai III: Duel At Ganryu Island [1956]
Spine #16
DVD/Blu-ray


A disillusioned Musashi Miyamoto (Toshiro Mifune) has turned his back on the samurai life, becoming a farmer in a remote village, while his nemesis Kojiro (Koji Tsuruta) now works for the shogun. Circumstances bring them back together for one final face-off. Though it's marked by a memorably intense final battle sequence, the rousing conclusion to the Samurai Trilogy is engaged with matters of the heart as well, as Miyamoto must ask himself what it is that makes a warrior and a man.

104 minutes
Color
Monaural
in Japanese
1:33:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2004
Director/Writers


From Hideji Hôjô’s adaptation of Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa.
Screenplay by Tokuhei Wakao and Hiroshi Inagaki.
Inagaki was 51 when he directed Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island.

The Film

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Film Rating (0-60):

60

The Extras

The Booklet

Commentary

Video tribute

Documentary 1

Documentary 2

Documentary 3

Controversial altered ending

Theatrical trailer


Extras Rating (0-40):

39

60 + 39 =

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