Samurai. II, Duel at Ichijoji Temple
(DVD)

Includes original theatrical trailer.

Part 2 of Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai trilogy, released as a motion picture in 1955.

"The Classic Collection, a joint venture between Janus Films and Home Vision Cinema"--Container.

Title from disc surface.

Based on Hideji Hojo's adaptation of the novel Musashi Miyamoto, by Eiji Yoshikawa.

Director, Hiroshi Inagaki ; producer, Kazuo Takimura ; screenplay, Tokuhei Wakao, Hiroshi Inagaki ; photography, Jun Yasumoto ; music, Ikuma Dan.

Toshiro Mifune, Koji Tsurata, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Okada, Michiyo Kogure, Mitsuko Mito.

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 second and most violent installment, Duel at Ichijoji Temple, Musashi beats a samurai armed with a chain-and sickle and is later set upon by eighty samurai disciples--orchestrated by the sinister Kojiro--while the two women who love him watch helplessly.

DVD format.

In Japanese with English subtitles.