In the fourth installment, Musashi’s potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. As his great love Otsu has succumbed to madness. Musashi then sets off to beat the functionaries of a treacherous clan in an arranged duel. 73 against one. Boastful Kojiro watches, secure in the knowledge that only he is a worthy opponent.
Length 128 minutes
Kinnosuke Nakamura | Wakaba Irie | Isao Kimura | Chieko Naniwa | Mitsuru Takeuchi | Satomi Oka | Shinjirô Ehara | Mikijiro Hira | Ken Takakura | Choichiro Kawarazaki | Kei Tani | Kusuo Abe | Chieko Higashiyama | Eijirô Tôno | Masao Oda | Kei Satō | Masaji Arikawa | Hiroshi Arima | Daisuke Awaji | Tokumaro Dan | Isamu Dobashi | Kenji Egi | Hideo Fujimoto | Yoshiko Fujishiro | Mitsuru Hagiwara | Tokue Hanazawa | Hiroshi Hatano | Shôtarô Hayashi | Yûji Ichikawa | Kaneko Iwasaki | Ryôsuke Kagawa | Minken Karasawa | Hanzo Kataoka | Reiko Kaze | Shûjirô Kijima | Yachiyo Kirishima | Yoshio Kirishima | Kazutarô Kuni | Kenji Kusumoto | Toshio Matsuda | Tsukie Matsuura | Hachirô Minamoto | Hiroshi Mizuno | Seiji Môri | Kinji Nakamura | Tokinosuke Nakamura | Keiko Ono | Yoshiki Oyamada | Kôji Sekiyama | Koreya Senda | Hideo Shimada | Keiichiro Shimada | Kin'ya Suzuki | Shin Tokudaiji | Hiroshi Tonegawa | Isao Yamagata | Kyôko Yasaka | Yasushi Ôki | Yôichi Ôyama | Michiyo Kogure | Rentarô Mikuni