Rent Miyamoto Musashi IV: Duel at Ichijyo-ji / Miyamoto Musashi V: Duel at Ganryu Island (1965)
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4h 9min
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- Synopsis:
A swordsman, writer and artist who lived between 1584 and 1645, Miyamoto Musashi is a near-mythic figure in Japanese history and an icon of Japanese popular culture
Miyamoto Musashi IV: Duel at Ichijyo-ji (1964)
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.
Miyamoto Musashi V: Duel at Ganryu Island (1965)The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters making appearances: Otsu (Musashi's great love), Akemi, Matahachi (his former fellow soldier), old lady Osugi (still doggedly trying to defeat Musashi), and even the return of Priest Takuan (the man responsible for his journey towards enlightenment). But most of all, the boastful, long-haired and long-sworded Sasaki Kojiro. - Actors:
- Kinnosuke Nakamura, Wakaba Irie, Isao Kimura, Chieko Naniwa, Mitsuru Takeuchi, Satomi Oka, Shinjirô Ehara, Mikijirô Hira, Ken Takakura, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Kei Tani, Kusuo Abe, Chieko Higashiyama, Eijirô Tôno, Masao Oda, Kei Satô, Masaharu Arikawa, Hiroshi Arima, Daisuke Awaji, Tokumaro Dan
- Directors:
- Tomu Uchida
- Producers:
- Hiroshi Ohkawa
- Writers:
- Naoyuki Suzuki, Tomu Uchida, Eiji Yoshikawa
- Aka:
- Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijoji (Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijôji no kettô / Miyamoto Musashi IV: Duel at Ichijyo-ji Temple) // Miyamoto Musashi: Ganryû-jima no kettô
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama
- Countries:
- Japan
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- Release Date:
- 23/02/2026
- Run Time:
- 249 minutes
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour and B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Live by the Sword - new video essay on Miyamoto Musashi in history and popular culture by Jonathan Clements, author of A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
- A Legendary Swordsman - new appreciation of Toei's Miyamoto Musashi saga by film critic Tony Rayns
- On Otsu and Other Women - new interview with Japanese cinema scholar Jennifer Coates on female representation in Toei's Miyamoto Musashi saga
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