Overview
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.
Cast
- 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