The samurai trilogy /

A sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai, Musashi Miyamoto, set against the turmoil of a devastating civil war. Follows Musashi's odyssey from his unruly youth to his enlightened years as a warrior.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dan, Ikuma, 1924-2001 (Composer)
Corporate Authors:	Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors:	Inagaki, Hiroshi, 1905-1980 (Screenwriter, Director), Takimura, Kazuo (Producer), Wakao, Tokuhei, 1918-1976 (Screenwriter), Hōjō, Hideji, 1902-1996, Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997 (Actor), Mikuni, Rentarō, 1923-2013 (Actor), Onoe, Kurōemon, 1922- (Actor), Tsuruta, Kōji, 1924-1987 (Actor), Okada, Mariko, 1933- (Actor), Yachigusa, Kaoru (Actor), Saga, Michiko, 1934-1992 (Actor), Yoshikawa, Eiji, 1892-1962
Format:	Book
Language:	Japanese
Language Notes:	In Japanese with optional English subtitles.
Published:	[New York] : Criterion Collection, [2012]
Edition:	Two-disc Blu-ray special ed.
Series:	Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) ; 14. Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) ; 15. Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) ; 16.
Subjects:	Miyamoto, Musashi, > 1584-1645 > Drama. Samurai > Japan > Drama. Civil war > Japan > Drama. Japan > History > Tokugawa period, 1600-1868 > Drama. Samurai films. Action and adventure films. Fiction films. Feature films. Biographical films. Epic films. Film adaptations. Motion pictures, Japanese. Foreign films.

Description
Summary:	A sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai, Musashi Miyamoto, set against the turmoil of a devastating civil war. Follows Musashi's odyssey from his unruly youth to his enlightened years as a warrior.
Item Description:	Collective title from from container. From Hideji Hojo's adaptation of the novel Musashi, by Eiji Yoshikawa. Originally produced as motion pictures in 1954, 1955 and 1956. Special features: Original theatrical trailer, three part interview: On Musashi Miyamoto, with translator and historian William Scott Wilson, booklet with essays by Stephen Prince and William Scott Wilson. Videorecording.
Physical Description:	2 videodiscs (approximately 300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm.)
Format:	Blu-ray; region A; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
Production Credits:	Directors of photography, Jun Yasumoto, Kazuo Yamada ; art director, Makoto Sono ; editors, Hideshi Ohi, Hirokazu Iwashita ; original music, Ikuma Dan ; production designer, Kisaku Ito.