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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 9780780021068
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0780021061
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Criterion
Release Date: July 28, 1998
Running Time: 104 minutes
Sales Rank: 67695
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: 1967-11
Editorial Review:
Description:
Hiroshi Inagaki's acclaimed Samurai Trilogy is based on the novel that has been called Japan's Gone with the Wind. This sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai Musashi Miyamoto (powerfully portrayed by Toshiro Mifune) plays out against the turmoil of a devastating civil war. The Trilogy (whose first part won an Academy Award®) follows Musashi's odyssey from unruly youth to enlightened warrior. In the third installment, Duel at Ganryu Island, Musashi reunites tragically with the women who love him, and battles for samurai supremacy in a climactic confrontation with his lifelong nemesis.
Amazon.com:
Toshirô Mifune is confidence supreme and humility incarnate as the mature samurai master Musashi Miyamoto in the final film of Inagaki's sprawling trilogy. Now a legendary swordsman whose latest quest is to save an isolated village from rampaging brigands (shades of Seven Samurai), he remains haunted by the memory of Otsu (Kaoru Yachigusa). Meanwhile the ruthless and increasingly jealous Kojiro Sasaki (Koji Tsuruta) plots his battle royal with Musashi to prove who is the finest fencer in Japan. Inagaki weaves the web of subplots into a series of grand confrontations, among them the most exciting battles of the trilogy: Musashi's skirmish with the army of cutthroats while the village erupts in a fiery inferno around him, and the sunset duel between Musashi and Kojiro on an isolated beach, the two warriors taking on mythic dimensions silhouetted against the sun setting over the surf. Inagaki's delicate use of color throughout the series becomes most pronounced in this final sequence, where the glow of orange and red adds dramatic flourish to the twilight battle. Inagaki's reserved, restrained style and Mifune's melancholy performance--his granite face and stocky stance the very essence of somber wisdom and sad assurance--bring a gravity and seriousness to the drama that ultimately illuminates the personal cost of Musashi's supreme skill as his story ends on an elegiac but hopeful note. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - samurai trilogy
this movie is very good. i have seen movies of samurai when i was young but this one is great.
Rating:  - Don't expect this to be exactly like the book
if you're like me then you've read Musashi "nice jobt man". Well after reading the book you where probably like "now i will buy and watch the movies". Well tlet me tell ya that only the First movie goes along with the books storyline 100 percent. so the first movie rocks and i'm not gonna talk about it so let me got right into movie number 2
before we go on i'm gonna tell you that i will probaly miss spell alot of the characters names
Now i know that all of you ... Read More
Rating:  - Poor video quality detracts from the enjoyment.
Out of the 3 discs, why is this one so poor in transfer quality in comparison to the other 2? I suppose Criterion could not find the original film masters from which to make a proper digital transfer? This one is a poor, low-grade VHS-era transfer slapped onto the DVD. The first 2 episodes were great, I was able to really see the depth in the colours as well as the quality of the cinematography. I was truly disappointed that this 3rd disc came from some poor tv/video transfer and nothing was done ... Read More
Rating: - Second Rate Soap...but good cinematography
Some movies stand the test of time. Not this one...Samurai Trilogy. The movie may very well be a big deal 40 years ago. Not now.
Moreover, the movie changed the life story of Miyamoto Musashi. For those who are interested, read his book, "A Book of Five Ring." Want to see a true samurai movie? Get "Samurai Rebellion."
Rating: - A Good Interpretation of the Book
This trilogy was made after the book Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa, one of my favorite reads. The first movie was probably the closest to the book, while the second and third had only minor changes in the chronology of events (compared to the novel). One thing to remember is that these movies were made in the fifties, so some of the story was altered to be more acceptable to society back then. About some of the dark moments in certain scenes, this is from being shot in dark environments, it doesn't really ... Read More
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