Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)

Release Date: 1955, July 12
Directors: Hiroshi Inagaki
Countries: Japan
Production: TOHO
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Daisuke Katō, Kokuten Kōdō, Eijirō Tōno, Sachio Sakai, Minoru Itō, Yasuhisa Tsutsumi, Ren Yamamoto, Yoshibumi Tajima, Eiko Miyoshi, Akihiko Hirata

Overview:

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers.