Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)
7.4/10 on IMDbReleased Sep 25, 1954

The place to begin. Hiroshi Inagaki adapts Eiji Yoshikawa's novel about the young Takezo, the hothead who will become the swordsman Musashi Miyamoto, and Mifune plays him as pure feral energy: shouting, bolting through forests, all instinct and no discipline yet. That rawness is the point, because…

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