Movie · 1955
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Released 12 July 1955 103 min Drama / Action / Adventure More from 1955 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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.
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How old were they?
Eiko Miyoshi
as Osugi
Kō Mihashi
as Honami Koetsu
Eijirō Tōno
as Baiken Shishido
Michiyo Kogure
as Lady Yoshino
Mitsuko Mito
as Oko
Yoshibumi Tajima
as Yoshioka samurai
Toshirō Mifune
as Musashi Miyamoto a.k.a. Takezo
Yoshio Inaba
as (uncredited)
Kurôemon Onoe
as Takuan
Koji Tsuruta
as Kojiro Sasaki
Sachio Sakai
as Matahachi Honiden
Akihiko Hirata
as Seijuro Yoshioka
Kaoru Yachigusa
as Otsu
Yū Fujiki
as Denshichiro Yoshioka
Machiko Kitagawa
as Kogure
Mariko Okada
as Akemi
Kenjin Iida
as Jotaro
FR·02
The numbers
39years between the oldest and youngest billed
61Eiko Miyoshi — oldest on the call sheet
22Mariko Okada — youngest billed
35average age of the credited cast