#hiroshi inagaki

[boydswan]

SWORD FOR HIRE (1952) dir. Hiroshi Inagaki

[toshiros-hands]

Toshiro Mifune in "The Three Treasures" (1959)

[cinematicjourney]

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954) | dir. Hiroshi Inagaki

[of-fear-and-love]

Toshiro Mifune in Samurai: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)

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Toshiro Mifune in Hiroshi Inagaki’s “続宮本武蔵一乗寺の決闘” (Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple) July 12, 1955.

[southmountainninja]

‘Duel at Ichijoji Temple’ (1955). Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki.

[anamon-book]

日本映画の若き日々　稲垣浩 中公文庫

[strathshepard]

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (Hiroshi Inagaki, 1955) Spanish poster by Juanino

[dromerace]

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto, Hiroshi Inagaki, 1954.

[chernobog13]

Machibuse (1970), aka Incident at Blood Pass and The Ambush.

This film was produced by Toshiro Mifune's company, Mifune Productions, and released by Toho. It was the second teaming of Mifune-san and Shintaro Katsu. They had starred together earlier that year in Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo, produced by Katsu Productions.

This is often referred to as Mifune-san's last performance as his famous character from Yojimbo and Sanjuro. That's a bunch of PR hooey. While there are some similarities, Mifune-san is playing a different character altogether.

The plot involves many people - a ronin, a disgraced doctor, a police constable and his prisoner, a woman abused by her husband, and a band of robbers - trapped in a snowed-in mountain pass and staying at the same inn. There are intrigues galore amongst the various players, and Mifune-san's ronin plays all sides in order to stay on top of the situation.

Mifune-san was reunited with director Hiroshi Inagaki for this project. Fifteen years earlier Inagaki-san had directed The Samurai Trilogy starring Mifune-san as the legendary samurai/sword saint Miyamoto Musashi. Machibuse would be Inagaki-san's last film.

[thejarlofwhiterun]

Mariko Okada as Akemi in Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)

[boydswan]

“I polish the souls of samurai. I do not sharpen murderous weapons.” SAMURAI II: DUEL AT ICHIJOJI TEMPLE · 続宮本武蔵 一乗寺の決闘 (1955, 稲垣浩)

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Toshiro Mifune in "Miyamoto Musashi" (1954)

[iamlivingtribunal]

[of-fear-and-love]

Textile patterns from the Samurai trilogy - 宮本武蔵 / Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954); 続宮本武蔵　一乗寺の決闘 / Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955); and 宮本武蔵完結編　決闘巌流島 / Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)

[onscreen-heartthrobs]

Toshiro Mifune in Hiroshi Inagaki’s “宮本武蔵” (Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto) September 26, 1954.