Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)
Zoku Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijô-ji no kettô
104 min
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers.
- Release date
- July 12, 1955
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Music
- Ikuma Dan
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Cast
- Toshirō Mifune as Musashi Miyamoto (Takezo)
- Kôji Tsuruta as Kojiro Sasaki
- Kaoru Yachigusa as Otsu
- Mariko Okada as Akemi
- Michiyo Kogure as Dayu Yoshino
- Akihiko Hirata as Seijuro Yoshioka
- Mitsuko Mito as Oko, Akemi's mother
- Kurôemon Onoe as Priest Takuan
- Sachio Sakai as Matahachi Honiden
- Yū Fujiki as Denshichiro Yoshioka
- Machiko Kitagawa as Kogure
- Eiko Miyoshi as Osugi
- Eijirō Tōno as Baiken Shishido
- Kō Mihashi as Honami Koetsu
- Yoshifumi Tajima as Yoshioka samurai
- Hisako Takihana as (uncredited)
- Ren Yamamoto as (uncredited)
- Ryû Kuze as (uncredited)
- Torahiko Hamada as (uncredited)
- Yoshio Inaba as (uncredited)
- Fumindo Matsuo as (uncredited)
- Ren Imaizumi as (uncredited)
- Kenzō Tabu as (uncredited)
- Kokuten Kōdō as Old Priest Nikkan (uncredited)
- Daisuke Katō as Toji Gion
Crew
- Hiroshi Inagaki · Director
- Hideji Hôjô · Writer
- Hiroshi Inagaki · Writer
- Tokuhei Wakao · Writer
- Eiji Yoshikawa · Writer
- Kazuo Takimura · Producer
- Ikuma Dan · Composer
- Jun Yasumoto · Cinematographer
- Eiji Ooi · Editor
- Kisaku Itô · Production designer