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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

1955·103 min

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki

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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.

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Toshirō Mifune

Musashi Miyamoto a.k.a. Takezo

Kojiro Sasaki

Kaoru Yachigusa

Otsu

Akemi

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Hiroshi Inagaki

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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955) is about 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.

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Hiroshi Inagaki directed Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955).

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