Trailer
Plot summary
Fighting at Sekigahara in 1600, Takezo and his friend Matahachi end up on the losing side. Takezo had expected glory; instead he comes away carrying a wounded Matahachi. They take shelter in a solitary cabin with a widow, Oko, and her daughter Akemi, who scavenge from dead samurai. When a band of outlaws comes for tribute, Takezo fights them off, and both women make advances that he refuses. Matahachi's betrothed, Otsu, waits back in the village. Takezo returns home to say that Matahachi is alive, but the townsfolk turn against him and the lord organizes a search posse; his relatives are arrested as bait.
Cast
- Kurôemon Onoeas Takuan Osho
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director Hiroshi Inagaki had already turned Musashi Miyamoto into a serial in 1941, but the prints of that earlier version were apparently destroyed because of its feudalistic theme.
- Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto was only the second film Toho produced in color, and the first one Toho made using the Eastman Color process.
- The film's hero is drawn from the real swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, who is believed to have fought at the 1600 Battle of Sekigahara, the Tokugawa victory that opened the way to the shogunate and where the film begins.
