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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki

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Overview

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.

Length 103 minutes

Actors

Toshirō Mifune | Koji Tsuruta | Kaoru Yachigusa | Mariko Okada | Michiyo Kogure | Akihiko Hirata | Mitsuko Mito | Kuroemon Onoe | Sachio Sakai | Yû Fujiki | Machiko Kitagawa | Eiko Miyoshi | Eijirô Tôno | Kenjin Iida | Ko Mihashi | Yoshifumi Tajima | Keiko Kondo | Hisako Takihana | Ren Yamamoto | Ryû Kuze | Torahiko Hamada | Yoshio Inaba | Fumindo Matsuo | Minoru Itô | Yasuhisa Tsutsumi | Ren Imaizumi | Rinsaku Ogata | Kenzô Tabu | Kokuten Kôdô | Daisuke Katô