Samurai I
Subtitle: Musashi Miyamoto
By: a Janus Films release ; Toho Co. Ltd. ; producer, Kazuo Takimura ; screenplay, Tokuhei Wakao and Hiroshi Inagaki ; director, Hiroshi Inagaki
Contributors: Mikuni, Rentarō, 1923-2013; Onoe, Kurōemon, 1922-; Yachigusa, Kaoru; Okada, Mariko; Mito, Mitsuko; Miyoshi, Eiko; Hirata, Akihiko; Hōjō, Hideji, 1902-1996; Dan, Ikuma, 1924-2001; Yoshikawa, Eiji, 1892-1962; Janus Films; Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha
Edition: Standard format.
Series: Criterion collection -- 14; Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) -- 14.
Publisher: Criterion Collection
Published: 1998
Place of publication: [United States]
Language: jpn
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: Drama; Samurai; History
Other titles: Samurai 1; Samurai one; Musashi Miyamoto; Miyamoto Musashi
Description: Set in 17th-century Japan, portraying the beginning of the saga of Musashi Miyamoto. Musashi's dreams of military glory end in betrayal, defeat, and a fugitive lifestyle. He is saved by a woman and a priest who guide him to the samurai path.
Notes: From Hideji Hojo's adaptation of the novel Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1954.

Includes original theatrical trailer (subtitled in English).

The first film in Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai trilogy.

Cinematography, Jun Yasumoto ; music, Ikuma Dan.

Toshiro Mifune, Rentaro Mikuni, Kuroeman Onoe, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Okada, Mitsuko Mito, Eiko Miyoshi, Akihiko Hirata.

Not rated by the MPAA.

DVD player required; Dolby digital mono.; region 1.

Soundtrack in Japanese with subtitles in English.