121 minutes
9/4/1965
The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters making appearances: Otsu (Musashi's great love), Akemi, Matahachi (his former fellow soldier), old lady Osugi (still doggedly trying to defeat Musashi), and even the return of Priest Takuan (the man responsible for his journey towards enlightenment). But most of all, the boastful, long-haired and long-sworded Sasaki Kojiro.
Kinnosuke Nakamura
as Miyamoto Musashi / Takezo
Ken Takakura
as Sasaki Kojiro
Wakaba Irie
as Otsu
Isao Kimura
as Hon'iden Matahachi
Chieko Naniwa
as Osugi
Yoshinobu Kaneko
as Misawa Iori
Michiyo Kogure
as Oko
Satomi Oka
as Akemi
Kusuo Abe
as Fuchikawa Goroku
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
as Kichijiro Hayashi
Koreya Senda
as Hon'ami Koetsu
Zeko Nakamura
as Zushi Nojisuke
Sumiko Hidaka
as Court Lady
Shinnosuke Ogata
as Kawajo no Kumagoro
Takahiro Tamura
as Yagyu Tajima
Kinji Nakamura
as Hojo
Kōtarō Satomi
as Hosokawa Tadatoshi
Asao Uchida
as Iwama Kakubee
Masaharu Arikawa
as Okatani Goroji
Masuo Kamiki
as Tailor
Tokinosuke Nakamura
as Yajibee
Rentaro Mikuni
as Muneaki Takuan - Priest
Chiezō Kataoka
as Sado Nagaoka
Kenji Egi
Masataka Iwao
Hanzō Kataoka
Kojirō Kawanami
Takeshi Kumagai
Ryōji Kōzuki
Yuriko Mishima
Kentaro Ozato
Gen Shimizu
Kin'ya Suzuki
Kinnosuke Takamatsu
Hiroshi Tonegawa
Kinjirô Tooyama
Kunijirō Yanagi
Ryuji Kita
as Sakai Tadakatsu