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The samurai trilogy [dvd videorecording]
Title:
The samurai trilogy [dvd videorecording]
Author:
Takimura, Kazuo.
Publication Information:
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2012]
Physical Description:
3 videodiscs (ca. 300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 p. ; 19 cm.)
Series:
The Criterion collection ; 14

The Criterion collection ; 15

The Criterion collection ; 16
General Note:
Subtitled in English.

From Hideji Hojo's dramatization 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 written by Stephen Prince and William Scott Wilson.
Abstract:
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.
Added Title:
Samurai trilogy DVD.