Directed by:
Hiroshi InagakiComposer:
Ikuma DanPlots(1)
In the first part of the epic Samurai Trilogy, Toshiro Mifune thunders onto the screen as the iconic title character. When we meet him, Miyamoto is a wide-eyed romantic, dreaming of military glory in the civil war that is ravaging the seventeenth-century countryside. Twists of fate, however, turn him into a fugitive. But he is saved by a woman who loves him and a cunning priest who guides him to the samurai path. Though the opening installment of a series, this film, lushly photographed in color, stands on its own, and won an Academy Award for the best foreign-language film of 1955. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
![Toshirō Mifune](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268053_2ff826.jpg)
Toshirō Mifune
China
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Samurai Rebellion (1967)
![Rentarô Mikuni](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272791_ba5bb5.jpg)
Rentarô Mikuni
Japan
Best movies:
Natsu no niwa - The Friends (1994)
Harakiri (1962)
Zatoichi at Large (1972)
![Mariko Okada](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/274/274400_603063.jpg)
Mariko Okada
Japan
Best movies:
A Story Written with Water (1965)
Late Autumn (1960)
Samurai III: Duel on Ganryu Island (1956)
![Daisuke Katō](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/886/157886513_8bb3e1.jpg)
Daisuke Katō
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Yojimbo (1961)
![水戸光子](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/321/158321503_16a789.jpg)
水戸光子
Japan
Best movies:
Mr. Thank You (1936)
Samurai III: Duel on Ganryu Island (1956)
Tales of Ugetsu (1953)
Yutaka Sada
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
High and Low (1963)
Red Beard (1965)
Eitarô Ozawa
Japan
Best movies:
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
Zatoichi Challenged (1967)
Steel Edge of Revenge (1969) - narrator
![八千草薫](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/165/161165193_84343e.jpg)
八千草薫
Japan
Best movies:
Samurai III: Duel on Ganryu Island (1956)
Samurai Assassin (1965)
Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974)
尾上九朗右衛門
Japan
Best movies:
三好栄子
Japan
Best movies:
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Living (1952)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Yoshio Kosugi
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Seven Samurai (1954)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
Shigeo Katô
Japan
Best movies:
Seven Samurai (1954)
Living (1952)
Fort Graveyard (1965)