Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)

Name: Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Released: 1955-07-12
Rating: 7.164
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Okada, Michiyo Kogure

DramaActionAdventure

103 min

Plot Summary

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.