Miyamoto Musashi (1961)

In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend. His beginning are not exactly auspicious. He sides with the Toyotomi at Sekigahara, and as a result finds himself on the losing side of the historic battle. He and his friend Matahachi manage to escape the slaughter although the latter is wounded in his leg. They stumble across the young Akemi who makes her living with her mother Oko by robbing corpses of their armor and anything else they can sell. Oko takes it into her head to seduce Matahachi, which she does first by skillfully sucking the gangrene from his blood, and then just by sucking.
- Released
- 1961-05-27
- Genres
- History, Action, Drama
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Tomu Uchida
- TMDB rating
- 7.1/10 from 14 votes
Cast
- Kinnosuke Nakamura as Miyamoto Musashi (Takezo)
- Akiko Kazami as Ogin
- Wakaba Irie as Otsu
- Isao Kimura as Hon'iden Matahachi
- Chieko Naniwa as Osugi
- Kusuo Abe as Fuchikawa Goroku
- Rentaro Mikuni as Muneaki Takuan
- Tokubei Hanazawa as Tanzaemon Aoki
- Bandō Mitsugorō VIII as Terumasa Ikeda
- Michiyo Kogure as Oko
- Satomi Oka as Akemi
- Kunio Kaga as Tsuji Kaze Ten Ma
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