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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Drama Action Adventure

1954, Movie, 1h 33min

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.

Country: Japan

Director:

Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast:

Toshirō Mifune,

Rentaro Mikuni,

Akihiko Hirata,

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Abdon Alvarado Alavez

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Quiero ver trilogia de Miyamoto Musashi/Toshiro Mifune

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