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Samurai Trilogy

Toshirô Mifune (Actor), Mariko Okada (Actor), Hiroshi Inagaki (Director) | Rated: Unrated | Format: VHS Tape
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Toshirô Mifune is confidence supreme and humility incarnate as the mature samurai master Musashi Miyamoto in the final film of Inagaki's sprawling trilogy. Now a legendary swordsman whose latest quest is to save an isolated village from rampaging brigands (shades of Seven Samurai), he remains haunted by the memory of Otsu (Kaoru Yachigusa). Meanwhile the ruthless and increasingly jealous Kojiro Sasaki (Koji Tsuruta) plots his battle royal with Musashi to prove who is the finest fencer in Japan. Inagaki weaves the web of subplots into a series of grand confrontations, among them the most exciting battles of the trilogy: Musashi's skirmish with the army of cutthroats while the village erupts in a fiery inferno around him, and the sunset duel between Musashi and Kojiro on an isolated beach, the two warriors taking on mythic dimensions silhouetted against the sun setting over the surf. Inagaki's delicate use of color throughout the series becomes most pronounced in this final sequence, where the glow of orange and red adds dramatic flourish to the twilight battle. Inagaki's reserved, restrained style and Mifune's melancholy performance--his granite face and stocky stance the very essence of somber wisdom and sad assurance--bring a gravity and seriousness to the drama that ultimately illuminates the personal cost of Musashi's supreme skill as his story ends on an elegiac but hopeful note. --Sean Axmaker

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Capturing the samurai warrior spirit in all its glory, Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy is a monumental epic relating the exploits of Musashi Miyamoto, the most famous of all Japanese swordsmen. Similar to American Westerns in story and structure, the Samurai Trilogy has been critically acclaimed for its exciting action/battle sequences and stunning color photography.

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2.0 out of 5 stars darkness rules, Jun 8 2004
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A. Grossman (Florence, Oregon USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samurai Trilogy (DVD)
These films are too dark and much of the action cannot be followed. Nothing is worse that a sword fight where the action can't be seen. It's strange that Criterion should release these wonderful films in this way as they usually use great prints. Quite disappointing!
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4.0 out of 5 stars 5 Star Trilogy! 3 Star DVD quality, May 26 2004
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J. Cournoyer (The Queen City, USA) - See all my reviews
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The Samurai Trilogy is excellent and a must see for anyone interested in Japanese history, culture or samurai. It's truly an epic. The only bad thing is the dvd quality. They films appear on dvd to be TOO DARK! You will have to turn the brightness up all the way on your t.v. settings. And some of the scenes look really ugly and should have been cleaned up.
The Samurai Trilogy is in dire need to be digitally remastered.
But I guess it's still worth buying.
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4.0 out of 5 stars a little darker than the film was, May 1 2004
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L. Gowen "lois" (concord, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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We have tried both the VHS and the DVD and they are about the same. We feel that the darkness of the recording might be because we have a rear projection TV and that with the newer plasma screens the color could possibly be just fine. This is a classic film with beautiful photography and acting. Well worth owning, just be aware of the problems with the older screen TVs. I highly recommend it inspite of the problem.
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