The samurai trilogy : three films / by Hiroshi Inagaki ; Toho Company Ltd. ; producer, Kazuo Takimura ; screenplay, Tokuhei Wakao and Hiroshi Inagaki ; director, Hiroshi Inagaki.
Material type: FilmPublisher number: CC2159D | Criterion CollectionLanguage: Japanese Original language: Japanese Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 14. | Criterion collection ; 15. | Criterion collection ; 16.Publication details: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2012], ©1954-©1956.Description: 3 videodiscs (approximately 300 minutes: 93, 103, 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages ; 19 cm)Content type:- two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 9781604656022
- 1604656026
- Three films by Hiroshi Inagaki
- Miyamoto, Musashi, 1584-1645 -- Drama
- Sasaki, Ganryū, -1612? -- Drama
- Yoshikawa, Eiji, 1892-1962 -- Film adaptations
- Miyamoto, Musashi, 1584-1645
- Sasaki, Ganryū, -1612?
- Yoshikawa, Eiji, 1892-1962
- Miyamoto, Musashi, 1584-1645 -- Drama
- Sasaki, Ganryū, -1612? -- Drama
- Yoshikawa, Eiji, 1892-1962 -- Film adaptations
- Samurai -- Japan -- Drama
- Civil war -- Japan -- Drama
- Japan -- History -- 17th century -- Drama
- Foreign films -- Japan
- Directors of photography, Jun Yasumoto, Kazuo Yamada ; art director, Makoto Sono ; editors, Hideshi Ohi, Hirokazu Iwashita ; original music, Ikuma Dan ; production designer, Kisaku Ito.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult DVD | Main Library | DVD | WORLD SAMURAI | Checked out | 06/10/2024 | 33111009913969 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Samurai Trilogy was one of Japan's most successful exports of the 1950s, a rousing, emotionally gripping tale of combat and self-discovery. Based on a novel that's often called Japan's Gone With The Wind, this sweeping saga fictionalizes the life of the legendary seventeenth-century swordsman.
DVD, NTSC, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
In Japanese with optional English subtitles.
Collective title from container.
Toshirō Mifune, Rentaro Mikuni, Kuroemon Onoe, Koji Tsuruta, Mariko Okado, Kaoru Yachigusa, Michiko Saga.
Directors of photography, Jun Yasumoto, Kazuo Yamada ; art director, Makoto Sono ; editors, Hideshi Ohi, Hirokazu Iwashita ; original music, Ikuma Dan ; production designer, Kisaku Ito.
From Hideji Hojo's dramatization of the novel Musashi, by Eiji Yoshikawa.
Originally produced as motion pictures in 1954, 1955 and 1956.
A sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai, Musashi Miyamoto, set against the turmoil of a devastating civil war. Follows Musashi's odyssey from his unruly youth to his enlightened years as a warrior.
880-01 disc 1. Miyamoto Musashi = Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954 : 93 minutes)-- disc 2. Zoku Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijōji no kettō = Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955 : 103 minutes)-- disc 3. Miyamoto Musashi kanketsu-hen: kettō Ganryūjima = Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956 : 104 minutes).
Special features: Original theatrical trailer; three part interview: On Musashi Miyamoto, with translator and historian William Scott Wilson; booklet written by Stephen Prince and William Scott Wilson.