MUSASHI - 2003 NHK Taiga Drama
Cast : Ichikawa Shinnosuke, Matsuoka Masahiro, Yonekura Ryoko, Nakama Yukie, Uchiyama Rina, Masuda Takahisa, Fujita Makoto, Emori Toru, Nakamura Kankuro, Nakamura Tamao, Miyazawa Rie, Watase Tsunehiko, Takashima Masanobu, Tsutsumi Shin'ichi,and Katase Rino.
The story of Japan's greatest hero, the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi is brought to life in this amazing Taiga Drama tracing him from the earliest beginnings through his most famous battles on into his later life.
Orphaned when he was not yet ten, Musashi grows up skilled in the martial arts.
During the Battle of Sekigahara, he fights on the side of the losing Toyotomi
forces, but eludes the enemy as they hunt down the vanquished soldiers.
He
then spends years wandering the countryside mastering the sword. As his fame
spreads throughout the nation, men seek him out to test their skills against
him--most notably Sasaki Kojiro who faces Musashi in the ultimate duel at
Ganryujima.
So much more of his life, background, and the political and social situations in Japan can be told in a year-long series than in a feature film. Much of his story has never been told before.
This is the ultimate in Japanese Samurai television.
2003 Color Fullscreen 50 episodes on 11 discs. NTSC Region Free.
Packed into a spindle cake box without case artwork.
Japanese with English subtitles.
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