
103 minutes
7/12/1955
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.

Toshirō Mifune
as Musashi Miyamoto a.k.a. Takezo

Koji Tsuruta
as Kojiro Sasaki

Kaoru Yachigusa
as Otsu

Mariko Okada
as Akemi

Michiyo Kogure
as Lady Yoshino

Akihiko Hirata
as Seijuro Yoshioka

Mitsuko Mito
as Oko
Kurôemon Onoe
as Takuan

Sachio Sakai
as Matahachi Honiden

Yū Fujiki
as Denshichiro Yoshioka

Machiko Kitagawa
as Kogure

Eiko Miyoshi
as Osugi

Eijirō Tōno
as Baiken Shishido
Kenjin Iida
as Jotaro
Kō Mihashi
as Honami Koetsu

Yoshibumi Tajima
as Yoshioka samurai
Keiko Kondo
as (uncredited)

Hisako Takihana
as (uncredited)

Ren Yamamoto
as (uncredited)
Ryū Kuze
as (uncredited)

Torahiko Hamada
as (uncredited)

Yoshio Inaba
as (uncredited)
Fumindo Matsuo
as (uncredited)
Minoru Itō
as (uncredited)

Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
as (uncredited)
Ren Imaizumi
as (uncredited)

Rinsaku Ogata
as (uncredited)

Kenzō Tabu
as (uncredited)

Kokuten Kōdō
as Old Priest Nikkan (uncredited)

Daisuke Katō
as Toji Gion