Musashi Miyamoto (1954)

About six weeks ago I stumbled across this movie on the IDC Comcast TV channel on a Saturday morning. The name of the movie was Samurai Trilogy I - Musashi Miyamoto (1954). I never heard of it before. I've spent eight years in Japan, have a Japanese wife and speak a little Japanese. I have a rack full of the standard swash-and-buckle samurai movies that everyone has heard of. Yet here was a three part technicolor samurai drama that I never heard of. Right away I jumped in and video taped it. I would have captured it on my hard drive if I had had enough time to get things set up. My wife and I watched it right away. She understood it and enjoyed it. I watched it and was thoroughly confused. Never mind. It was beautiful for that early a date technicolor. Everything was good to look at: the faces, the costumes and all the scenery. I taped the other two episodes on the following Saturdays. Then I searched and found several offerings of it on Mininova and Pirate Bay, downloaded them and doctored them up. They were mostly not up to snuff. My plain old VHS picture looked better. Here it is. But be sure and read the commentary text file first. Then you won't be as confused as I was. For example, Musashi (Toshiro Mifune) is considered a wild guy (neighborhood kid), and he doesn't much care for the girls while they go for him. Starting out they are farm boys up in a tree watching the local army marching through town on the way to one of the most famous battles in Japanese history (Sekigahara). One month later they're slashing their way through the battlefield wielding swords like professionals. Surviving that war they stagger into a neighborhood farmhouse of two rather attractive females oblivious to a nearby war zone and roving brigands. In other words things didn't add up for me. My wife didn't care. To me things jumped and jerked around without proper build-up in between. But, relax and enjoy, no matter what.

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muszasi1 (2009-03-14)

thanks for the up jgordon. am surprised that with your background you have never come accross with the name of mijamoto musashi. another favourite of mine is the tale of the soga brothers. the lesson from the story of musashi is that inevitable keys for the inner foundation are disciplines and persistence. am keen to wait till it comes down.

treeant23 (2010-10-24)

Damn it. You can download gigs and gigs of literature from torrents. But why hasn't anyone ever put up a copy of the book this is all based off of? Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa, the most epic samurai novel.

ImperatorI (2011-04-11)

Thanks for the upload, are there subs too?

Angizia (2011-04-23)

Musashi is a very famous ronin/samurai in Japanese history. Read the manga "Vagabond" and you will fall in with his story, and his rival Kojiro. Musashi's father was an undefeated martial artist, but his title "invincible under the sun" drove him to paranoia. Mushashi hated him because he was even wary of his own son. Musashi killed a grown up ronin when he was a little kid, then went on to living in the mountains, training on his own. Probably the most important achievement of Musashi would be; taking on 70 swordsmen from the Yoshioka clan, at the same time, by himself. Not 1 on 1 matches, all at the same time. And he survived, save a bad hit on his lower leg.

brutal_product (2011-06-11)

watched these years ago, tyvm
+1

MrCyberdude (2011-06-14)

This may be of great interest.

yourcrazedpoet (2011-08-25)

This trilogy is based off of Eiji Yoshikawa's novelization of Musashi's life, read the book, and you'll have a much easier time following it.

pragmato (2012-11-07)

Many thanks for mighty upload. *bow*
Video is not that bad, imho, though I haven't seen the other uploads. Me just wachtched all three parts here on a LCD, hence will give V.:6/10 & A.: 4/10 with +1 for both if one is not pedantic. Regarding that this piece of art is nearly 60 years old I'm most satisfied with the quality! Again: ty ;) *leave room with face directed at chivalric uploader*