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The Samurai Trilogy (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]
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Genre | Action & Adventure |
Format | Blu-ray |
Contributor | Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshiro Mifune |
Language | Japanese |
Runtime | 5 hours |
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Product Description
The Samurai Trilogy, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki (The Rickshaw Man) and starring the inimitable Toshiro Mifune (Seven Samurai), was one of Japan’s most successful exports of the 1950s, a rousing, emotionally gripping tale of combat and self-discovery. Based on a novel that’s often called Japan’s Gone with the Wind, this sweeping saga fictionalizes the life of the legendary seventeenth-century swordsman (and writer and artist) Musashi Miyamoto, following him on his path from unruly youth to enlightened warrior. With these three films—1954’s Oscar-winning Musashi Miyamoto, 1955’s Duel at Ichijoji Temple, and 1956’s Duel at Ganryu Island—Inagaki created a passionate epic that’s equal parts tender love story and bloody action.
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 4 ounces
- Item model number : Relay time: 300min; 2 Videos
- Director : Hiroshi Inagaki
- Media Format : Blu-ray
- Run time : 5 hours
- Release date : June 26, 2012
- Actors : Toshiro Mifune
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : Criterion Collection
- ASIN : B007N5YJZM
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #10,204 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,315 in Action & Adventure Blu-ray Discs
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This might be my favorite Japanese film(s) as it follows the classic model of the heroes journey.
This Samurai Trilogy collection includes Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto, Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple and Samurai III: Duel at Granryu Island.
The three films follow Mushashi Miyamoto from wild rebellious youth to pensive sword-master. The films are based on the novel “Musashi” from the 1930s, and so they include fictional elements, as well as both myth and historical facts. On a side note, the novel is the same source material for the manga Vagabond. So the 1950s Samurai Trilogy and the modern Vagabond manga share this narrative connection which may be of interest to Japanophiles.
If you like classic film, then this is set is highly recommended. The cinematography is always excellent and the acting impeccable. Toshiro Mifune is masterful and it’s enjoyable to see him in a classic Samurai movie directed by somebody besides Kurosawa. I also found the love story moving and side characters believable. The fact that this trilogy is also shot in color gives these films an ethereal grandeur that almost pulls it out of its own time.
The Samurai Trilogy is not to be missed by anyone that loves classic storytelling, traditional drama, the hero’s journey and swordsmanship of a bygone age.
The film is outstanding in its scenes of color and panorama. Some of the best camera work ever done.
Japanese film-making cares very little about happy endings, feel-good movies, or "chic" flicks. So don't look for them here. But they do have emotional power. The pain of Musashi, in the first film of the Trilogy, is excruciating when he is hunted, starved, and finally suspended by rope from a pine for days upon returning home from a long battle, and the torment of Otsu in the second film, as she spend years waiting near a bridge that Musashi might one day cross. Excellent acting....very powerful performances.
These films' underlying themes are all about morality. All the characters are heroes. Otsu is long-suffering while loyal to her true love. Musashi is a soul searching warrior. While he spends years refining his swordmanship and seeking honor and fame, she waits hopefully that someday his early promise of a peaceful life with her is realized. I think she ends up a virgin who has been told twice by Musashi that he loves her. Unless I've totally missed the point, these characters are role models. Kurosawa portrays them as what is best in the collective Japanese character. Highly moral views. The women are virgins and the men are swordsmen without defeat. Interesting, huh?
Musashi acquires a reputation as a fighter, but he is frequently instructed that his fighting prowess is not an end in itself and is not the path of a true Samurai. He travels a long road lasting three films to find it. In the end, one Samurai is dead and one is alive. What the surviving Samurai attains is the question I ask. There is no victory, no position attained, no money gained. The point may be, that there is no defeat. Certainly the dead are defeated. The survivor knows he has never been and becomes the epitome of the Samurai. This theme is restated in "The Magnificent Seven" (an American remake of Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai")....Places you call home..None; Insults taken...None; Enemies living...None
The appeal for the Western audience is the desire to be learn cinematography, story-telling, and Japanese Feudal Culture from a master in the art of film-making. This film is rivaled, in scope, only by the likes of "Gone With the Wind", "Bridge On the River Kwai", or "Lawrence of Arabia" in American Film.
I gave this Trilogy Four Stars. To earn a Five Star you have to have a killer soundtrack. This did not.