Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

Duel At Ichijoji Temple
Original Japanese film poster
Directed by	Hiroshi Inagaki Jun Fukuda (assistant director)
Produced by	Toho Kazuo Takimura (producer) Boku Morimoto (production manager)
Written by	Hideji Hojo (play) Hiroshi Inagaki Tokuhei Wakao Eiji Yoshikawa (novel
Starring	Toshirō Mifune Koji Tsuruta
Music by	Ikuma Dan
Cinematography	Jun Yasumoto
Editing by	Hideshi Ohi
Distributed by	Toho Studios
Release date(s)	July 12, 1955 (1955-07-12) (Japan) October 20, 1967 (1967-10-20) (United States)
Running time	103 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Duel at Ichijoji Temple (続宮本武蔵　一乗寺の決闘, Zoku Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijōji no kettō^?) is a color (Eastmancolor) 1955 Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki starring Toshirō Mifune. It is the second film of the Samurai Trilogy. The film is adapted from Eiji Yoshikawa's novel Musashi. The novel is loosely based on the life of the famous Japanese swordsman, Miyamoto Musashi.

The first part of the trilogy is Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto and the third is Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island.

Production designer was Kisaku Ito, set decoration was made by Makoto Sono, consultant of art department was Kisaku Ito, sound technician was Choshichiro Mikami, lighting technician was Shigeru Mori and choreographers were Tukuho Gosai and Yoshio Sugino.^[1]

Alternat Japanese poster of the film

Cast

• Toshirō Mifune as Miyamoto Musashi
• Koji Tsuruta as Sasaki Kojirō
• Mariko Okada as Akemi
• Kaoru Yachigusa as Otsu
• Michiyo Kogure as Dayu Yoshino
• Mitsuko Mito as Oko, Akemi's mother
• Akihiko Hirata as Seijuro Yoshioka
• Daisuke Katō as Toji Gion
• Kuroemon Onoe as priest Takuan (Takuan Sōhō)
• Sachio Sakai as Matahachi Honiden
• Yu Fujiki as Denshichiro Yoshioka
• Machiko Kitagawa as Kogure
• Eiko Miyoshi as Osugi, Matahachi's mother
• Eijirō Tōno as Shishido Baiken
• Kenjin Iida as Jōtarō
• Akira Tani as Kawara-no-Gonroku
• Ko Mihashi as Honami Kōetsu
• Kokuten Kodo as old priest Nikkan
• Yoshifumi Tajima as Yoshioka samurai
• Keiko Kondo
• Hisako Takihana
• Ren Yamamoto
• Ryu Kuze
• Torahiko Hamada
• Yoshio Inaba
• Fumito Matsuo
• Minoru Ito
• Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
• Ren Imaizumi
• Rinsaku Ogata
• Kenzo Tabu

See also

• Fuju-fuse#The persecution - about the priest Nikkan

References

1. ^ Full cast and crew for Zoku Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijôji no kettô. IMDB, accessed 18 May 2009.

External links

• Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple at the Internet Movie Database
• Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple at AllRovi
• Criterion Collection essay by Bruce Eder
• (Japanese) http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1955/ce002500.htm